Popular music (characterized by improvised instrumental parts, beat and measure-level organization, and steady tempo) poses challenges for human-computer music performance (HCMP). Pieces of music are typically rearrangeable on-the-fly and involve a high degree of variation from ensemble to ensemble, and even between rehearsal and performance. Computer systems aiming to participate in such ensem...

Funded by the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) as a " visioning exercise " meant to promote forward thinking in computing research and then bring these ideas to a funded program.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of Star Wars music (SWM) compared with endoscopist-selected popular music (PM) on quality outcomes in colonoscopy. DESIGN AND SETTING A single-centre, prospective, randomised controlled trial conducted in an endoscopy suite within a quaternary-centre gastroenterology unit, Melbourne, Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The primary outcome measures were procedur...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between primary health care utilization and extended health insurance coverage under the Seguro Popular (SP) among Mexican indigenous people. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 2012 (n = 194,758). Quasi-experimental matching methods and nonlinear regression probit models were used to ...

In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this, we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, ...

Louis Lewin, better known for his popular works on poisons, wrote the first book on Side Effects of Drugs ("Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimitiel") in 1881. In the introduction to the 3rd edition (1899) he postulated: "As valuable as reports on side or after-effects of drugs per se may be, as much the practitioner may benefit from instructions as to how to avoid and treat such effects for his patient...

Among the future Internet architecture, Content Centric Networking (CCN) is one of the most promising network architectures, where Content Routers (CRs) are attached with the cache space to store the contents temporary and CRs provide the contents to users from their cache. The original caching scheme stores every arriving contents and that manner leads to the fast cache replacement. So, the po...

Anonymous cloud architecture provides secure environment for business and also e-commerce approaches. By using this type of architecture, we can propose anonymous online applications. Customers who need secure and reliable online services should pay for provided services. A big problem is electronic payment that is needed for billing customers. But customer identity should be remained anonymous...