Kerala is well-known globally for the unprecedented fertility transition in the Indian subcontinent towards the end of the last century. The state has already reached below-replacement fertility level in the 1990s while the rest of India was experiencing high or mid-level fertility. With this backdrop, an attempt was made in this paper (a) to explore the plausible factors associated with sub-re...

This preliminary study investigates the relationship between tempo indications in a score and the tempo performed by musicians. As several 18 century theorists point out, the chosen tempo should depend not only on the tempo indication, but also on other factors such as the time signature and the fastest note values to be played. It is examined whether the four main tempo indications (Adagio, An...

The onset of puberty marks a time of rapid linear growth, sexual development, and transition from childhood to maturity. The diagnosis and treatment of a childhood malignancy prior to the onset of puberty has the potential to profoundly affect the timing and the tempo of puberty. CNS tumors located in the hypothalamic-pituitary (H-P) region, surgical resection in this location, and exposure to ...

In the current state-of-art beat tracker, it is common that a specific algorithm do the best on particular kind of audio. For example, the algorithm based on two-fold dynamic programing have sequential 1 st place on time-varying-tempo MAZ dataset of MIREX audio beat tracking. This study proposed a tempogram-sensing-vector (TSV) method to be adaptive to time-varying-tempo and stable-tempo excerp...

Automatic beat tracking and tempo estimation are challenging tasks, especially for audio music with timevarying tempo. This paper proposes a two-fold dynamic programming (DP) approach to deal with beat tracking with time-varying tempo. In particular, the first DP computes the tempo curve from the tempogram. The second DP identifies the optimum beat positions from the novelty and tempo curves. E...

One of the most important events in the life of mammals is the onset of puberty during which the secondary sexual characters appear, the growth increase until the final height is reached and fertility is achieved. The timing of puberty is precisely controlled by a plethora of endogenous signals and environmental cues that affect hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG or Journal of Biology and Life...