We read with great interest the comprehensive review advocating thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation conducted by Professor Mysiak and co-workers [1]. However, we feel obliged to mention that an important contribution in this field was made last year. At the World Congress of Cardiology 2006 in Barcelona, the eagerly awaited results of the Thrombolysis in Cardiac Arrest (TROICA) tr...

Evaluation of singing skill is a popular function of karaoke machines. Here, we introduce a different aspect of evaluating the singing voice of an amateur singer: “enthusiasm”. First, we investigated whether human listeners can evaluate enthusiasm consistently and whether the listener’s perception matches the singer’s enthusiasm. We then identified three acoustic features relevant to the percep...