The time-span tree of Jackendoff and Lehrdahl’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music is one of the most promising representations of human cognition of music. In order to show this, we compare the distance in trees and psychological dissimilarity by using variations of Ah vous dirais-je, maman by Mozart. Since pitch and chord sequence also affect the time spans, we amend the time-span analysis to i...

CONTEXT Survival following a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) is important information for health planners, caregivers, patients, and their families. OBJECTIVES To estimate the duration of survival following a diagnosis of AD and to determine the effect of AD on life span. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Follow-up of participants of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging who were ol...

Time-span tree is a stable and consistent representation of musical structure since most experienced listeners deliver the same one, almost independently from context and subjectivity. In this paper, we pay attention to the reduction hypothesis of the tree structure, and introduce the notion of distance as a promising candidate of stable and consistent metric of similarity. First, we design a f...

Time-span tree in Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s theory [12] has been regarded as one of the most dependable representations of musical structure. We first show how to formalize the time-span tree in feature structure, introducing head and span features. Then, we introduce join and meet operations among them. The span feature represents the temporal length during which the head pitch event is most sa...

BACKGROUND The studies of the natural progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Chinese populations have been lacking. To address this issue and obtain a preliminary data, we conducted a PD progression assessment in 15 adults with de novo PD from a nutritional intervention trial (NIT) cohort in Lin County China. METHODS Using the Copiah County screening questionnaire and United Kingdom Parki...

<p><span lang="EN-US">Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis </span><span lang="IN">bagaimana hubungan</span><span lang="EN-US"> jangka pendek dan panjang Makroekonomi, Indeks Saham Global, Harga Emas Dunia, Minyak Dunia terhadap Gabungan (IHSG) selama periode lang="IN">Januari</span><span 2010</span><span lang="IN"> hing...

OBJECTIVE To describe the behavior of mortality in Mexico through four indicators from 1990 to 2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS The official mortality and population records of Mexico were used. RESULTS An advance was achieved for children under five years of age, with a decrease in mortality, although there was an increase in the years of potential life lost (YPLL) from 2008 for this age group. ...