Acute cerebellar ataxia occurring in childhood is a definite clear-cut syndrome, yet only three cases appear to have been reported in the British literature (Batten, 1907; Taylor, 1913), although more recently cases with similar features have been included in wider surveys on encephalitis by Brewis (1954) and on ataxia by Shanks (1950). Typically the clinical picture is characterized by the sud...

In voice-driven sound synthesis applications, phonetics convey musical information that might be related to the sound of an imitated musical instrument. Our initial hypothesis is that phonetics are userand instrumentdependent, but they remain constant for a single subject and instrument. Hence, a user-adapted system is proposed, where mappings depend on how subjects performs musical articulatio...

This study aims to determine how the song nocturne in e-flat major op 9 no 2 by Fredrich Chopin is technically expressed through classical guitar playing Francisco Tarrega. research descriptive analysis, which this case describes, outlines and describes technique of played for instruments. The object Frederich Chopin. instrument researcher himself assisted several equipment process data. type d...

Psychophysiological studies with music have not examined what exactly in the music might be responsible for the observed physiological phenomena. The authors explored the relationships between 11 structural features of 16 musical excerpts and both self-reports of felt pleasantness and arousal and different physiological measures (respiration, skin conductance, heart rate). Overall, the relation...

Volatile nitrosamines (VNAs) are a group of compounds classified as probable (group 2A) and possible (group 2B) carcinogens in humans. Along with certain foods and contaminated drinking water, VNAs are detected at high levels in tobacco products and in both mainstream and sidestream smoke. Our laboratory monitors six urinary VNAs-N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), N-nitrosomethylethylamine (NMEA), ...

James Thomson envisaged a lamp which would be turned on for 1 minute, off for 1/2 minute, on for 1/4 minute, etc. ad infinitum. He asked whether the lamp would be on or off at the end of 2 minutes. Use of “internal set theory” (a version of nonstandard analysis), developed by Edward Nelson, shows Thomson’s lamp is chimerical; its copy within set theory yields a contradiction. The demonstration ...

While there is broad consensus about the structural similarities between language and music, comparably less attention has been devoted to semantic correspondences between these two ubiquitous manifestations of human culture. We have investigated the relations between music and a narrow and bounded domain of semantics: the words and concepts referring to taste sensations. In a recent work, we f...

One of the primary functions of music is to convey emotion, yet how music accomplishes this task remains unclear. For example, simple correlations between mode (major vs. minor) and emotion (happy vs. sad) do not adequately explain the enormous range, subtlety or complexity of musically induced emotions. In this study, we examined the structural features of unconstrained musical improvisations ...

The object of the study is Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 147 by Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich — a work that rightfully considered autobiographical farewell. subject was specificity timbral embodiment figurative-emotional sphere composition. In proposed reading, first part sonata an image world to which composer sends farewell glance, second sarcastic sketch bright collective images vices hum...

The system of classifying languages by their rhythmic patterning traditionally and historically characterizes the patterns in terms of three groups. One group includes the so-called “stress-timed” languages like English, German, and Dutch, which are perceived as having equal intervals between stresses, and are described as sounding rhythmically like Morse code (James 1940). A second rhythmic cl...