The aim of this study is to manipulate musical cues systematically to determine the aspects of music that contribute to emotional expression, and whether these cues operate in additive or interactive fashion, and whether the cue levels can be characterized as linear or non-linear. An optimized factorial design was used with six primary musical cues (mode, tempo, dynamics, articulation, timbre, ...

Inferences we make about underlying cognitive processes can be jeopardized in two ways due to problematic forms of aggregation. First, averaging across individuals is typically considered a very useful tool for removing random variability. The threat is that averaging across subjects leads to averaging across different cognitive strategies, thus harming our inferences. The second threat comes f...

When several treatments are available for evaluation in a clinical trial, different design options are available. We compare multi-arm multi-stage with factorial designs, and in particular, we will consider a 2 × 2 factorial design, where groups of patients will either take treatments A, B, both or neither. We investigate the performance and characteristics of both types of designs under differ...

The aim of this study is to prepare fluvastatin nanostructured lipid carriers (FLV-NLCs) in order to find an innovative way to alleviate FLV-associated disadvantages. The limitations include poor solubility and extensive first-pass metabolism, resulting in low (30%) bioavailability and short elimination half-life (1-3 hours). FLV-NLCs were prepared by hot emulsification-ultrasonication method. ...

We give a combinatorial interpretation for the super Catalan number S(m,m + s) for s ≤ 3 using lattice paths and make an attempt at a combinatorial interpretation for s = 4. We also examine the integrality of some factorial ratios.

The effect of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on working memory and field independence was investigated in a twelve-week longitudinal time-series study in which the uMatch Me" computerized memory game and the Rod and Frame Test were administered daily to a matched pair of 11-year-old boys and a matched pair of 14-year-old girls. One of the boys and one of the girls began the TM tec...