The staccato rhythms of experiential time remain obscured in much the literature on participatory research, where is treated as a reassuring constant – backdrop for human activity. This article addresses discordances between lived temporalities and existing theorisations methodologies. It takes research with lone child migrants particularly rich case to think with, given proliferation contradic...

While cross-modal interactions have been well explored in speech perception, there has been comparatively little research on musical contexts. Such an effect would be quite interesting as music is typically considered to be a primarily auditory experience. Percussionists must use a large amount of physical motion to produce sound. While differences in the physical gestures used to produce diffe...

Chlamydia trachomatis infection most commonly affects the urogenital tract. In men, the infection usually is symptomatic, with dysuria and a discharge from the penis. Untreated chlamydial infection in men can spread to the epididymis. Most women with chlamydial infection have minimal or no symptoms, but some develop pelvic inflammatory disease. Chlamydial infection in newborns can cause ophthal...

A system for real-time feedback of expressive music performance is presented. The feedback is provided by using a graphical interface where acoustic cues are presented in an intuitive fashion. The graphical interface presents on the computer screen a three-dimensional object with continuously changing shape, size, position, and colour. Some of the acoustic cues were associated with the shape of...

Many of the world's largest volcanic eruptions are associated with geological rifting where major fractures open at the Earth's surface, yet fundamental controls on the near-surface response to the rifting process are lacking. New high resolution observations gleaned from seismometer data during the 2014 Bárðarbunga basaltic dyke intrusion in Iceland allow us unprecedented access to the associa...

In HIV patients who discontinue highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the degree of HIV RNA suppression at the time of treatment interruption may predict success of re-treatment after the interruption (STI). A case-control substudy of the Staccato trial in Thailand included CD4-guided STI subjects with HIV RNA > 50 copies /ml (virological failure cases, n=11) and HIV RNA < 50 copies/ml ...

In this study, a Yamaha Disklavier is tested on its measuring and reproducing capabilities, with the goal to examine its use in performance research. An experimental setup with accelerometers and a calibrated microphone is used to capture key and hammer movements, as well as the sound signal. Five selected keys are played by pianists with two types of touch (‘staccato – legato’). Timing and dyn...

The goal of this research was to determine when harbor seal pup vocalizations become sufficiently distinctive to allow individual recognition. A total of 4593 calls were analyzed from 15 captive pups. Nineteen were harsh, broadband, staccato calls used in an aggressive context. The rest were tonal "mother attraction calls," having an inverted "v"- or "u"-shaped spectrogram with harmonics and a ...