MIDI files abound and provide a bounty of information for music informatics. We enumerate the types of information available in MIDI files and describe the steps necessary for utilizing them. We also quantify the reliability of this data by comparing it to human-annotated ground truth. The results suggest that developing better methods to leverage information present in MIDI files will facilita...

The present work described a bio-functionalized 3D fibrous construct, as an interactive teno-inductive graft model to study tenogenic potential events of human mesenchymal stem cells collected from Wharton’s Jelly (hWJ-MSCs). 3D-biomimetic and bioresorbable scaffold was functionalized with nanocarriers for the local controlled delivery factor, i.e., Growth Differentiation factor 5 (hGDF-5). Sig...

The MIDI standard does not specify how MIDI key velocity is to be interpreted. Of course, individual synthetic instruments respond differently, but one would expect that on average, instruments will respond about the same. This study aims to determine empirically how hardware and software MIDI synthesizers translate velocity to peak RMS amplitude. Analysis shows synthesizers roughly follow an x...

Even though originally developed for exchanging control commands between electronic instruments, MIDI has been used as quasi standard for encoding and storing scorerelated parameters. MIDI allows for representing musical time information as specified by sheet music as well as physical time information that reflects performance aspects. However, in many of the available MIDI files the musical be...

We describe a new approach for testing MIDI performance characteristics, which is both inexpensive and highly accurate. Following a description of the test method, actual results for a number of MIDI interface technologies are presented. These results show that jitter and latency performance of newer (USB-based) interfaces is actually two to three times worse than older MIDI interface technolog...

The MIDI interface is originally designed for electronic musical instruments but we consider this music-note based coding concept can be extended for general acoustic signal description. We proposed applying the MIDI technology to coding of biomedical auscultation sound signals such as heart sounds for retrieving medical records and performing telemedicine. Then we have tried to extend our enco...

We compared the plasma viromes of HIV-infected subjects with low versus high CD4(+) T cell counts from the United States and Uganda by using deep sequencing and detected HIV, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, GB virus C, anellovirus, and human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) reads. An increase in the proportion of reads for anelloviruses, a family of highly prevalent and genetically diverse hu...

Con el lanzamiento del protocolo MIDI, se han desarrollado nuevos recursos y posibilidades para la interpretación, composición edición musical. Debido a creciente expansión de las capacidades almacenamiento procesamiento los ordenadores, también ha sido posible aumentar calidad especificidad bibliotecas muestras. En tal escenario, esta investigación métodos mixtos tiene como objetivo principal ...

As tendon stem/progenitor cells were reported to be rare in tendon tissues, tendons as vulnerable targets of sports injury possess poor self-repair capability. Human ESCs (hESCs) represent a promising approach to tendon regeneration. But their teno-lineage differentiation strategy has yet to be defined. Here, we report that force combined with the tendon-specific transcription factor scleraxis ...