OBJECTIVE Fetal development of the central nervous system is an important and sensitive stage which is affected by many external and internal stimuli. This study aimed to investigate effect of musical stimuli on fetal rat brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, twelve female Wistar rats were selected and evenly assigned to control and musical groups. The females were mated wi...

Music structure description, i.e. the task of representing the high-level organization of music pieces in a concise, generic and reproducible way, is currently a scientific challenge both algorithmically and conceptually. In this paper, we focus on semiotic structure, i.e. the description of similarities and internal relationships within a music piece, as a low-rate stream of arbitrary symbols ...

Activations to pleasant and unpleasant musical stimuli were observed within an extensive neuronal network and different brain structures, as well as in the processing of the syntactic and semantic aspects of the music. Previous studies evidenced a correlation between autonomic activity and emotion evoked by music listening in patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DoC). In this study, we ana...

     There are several reasons for usage of music and musical activities. Music is part of artistic activities of human beings. Perhaps people are exposed to music more than other artistic works in their daily lives. Due to the necessity of considering music as a part of human identity, we tried to study the amount of music used by young people in Zanjan based on four hypothesis: cultural li...

The introduction of digital music representation considerably altered the ways of creating, accessing and using music. Until today an immense number of music archives has been made available so that the actual attitude of music consumption has changed fundamentally. Both the commercial domain as for instance represented by music producers or music distributors and the private domain play a majo...

scholars of the past have address important topics in the field of arabic rhetoric, including discussions of the word and the sense, a topic from which discussions of the image, or as modern critics would call, the artistic image, emerges. thus, critics and rhetoric experts consider the artistic image (or the image) as a valid tool in literary criticism. a useful result this is the possibility ...

Background and Purpose: Due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing cancer chem...

This paper outlines our submissions to different music classification tasks for the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2009. We detail here three different algorithms tested in mood and genre classification tasks, and in classical composer identification. These algorithms are based on Support Vector Machines, Disjoint Principal Components Models, and RCA-kNN. The last one u...

Technologies enabling digital piracy have expanded the variety of options available to users when deciding how to access a product. As a result, access-mode decisions for film and music are broader than for other goods where the piracy option is not as prevalent. This paper presents a model of access-mode decisions for film and music which integrates elements of previous digital piracy models a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This study investigated whether adolescents who drink and those who are teetotal differ in the link between music motives and health-related outcomes (life satisfaction, self-rated health, school pressure, somatic complaints, depressed and aggressive mood, physical powerlessness, frequency of being bullied and bullying others and evenings spent out with friends). It also loo...