based on their own specific social requirements, all societies have made use of music on numerous and various occasions. music has played a role in a wide range of social activities, including at prestigious events such as governmental receptions, court ceremonies and martial music, as well as during national and religious celebrations. the aim of this article is to examine martial musical inst...

Drum kits consist of various kinds of percussion instruments. As all percussion instruments are large and heavy, they are inconvenient for drummers to carry and set up. Virtual drums, which include motion sensors and enable drummers to imitate playing drums by stroking a virtual drum, are highly portable. However, drummers, who are used to playing real drums, have difficulty in demonstrating th...

Water storage drums are often a primary breeding site for Aedes aegypti in developing countries. Habitat characteristics can impact both adult and larval fitness and survival, which may potentially influence arbovirus transmission. Our objective was to compare fundamental environmental differences in water drums based on the presence or absence of larvae in Trinidad. Drums were categorized acco...

Since 1972, Tourism Malaysia has been making efforts at branding as a unique tourist destination in South East Asia. In this process, songs play significant role. 1999, Truly Asia was composed by Dato’ Seri Ahmad Nawab and it became the most iconic song for ministry's campaign. The initially recorded English later translated into seventeen languages international markets. This introduces highli...

Prof. Raman found that the Indian drums all produced harmonics, whereas the western drums do not, a fact that is proved theoretically. He also found that that the density distribution present as a central black patch on the Indian drums is not of the type r. However, R.Siddharthan, P.Chatterjee and Vikram Tripathi have stated in their paper 1 that they found the harmonics of the Indian Drums al...

The unusual form of sexual signaling, the drumming produced by the wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata, allows exceptionally detailed studies of female preference patterns against signal characteristics. It is easy to manipulate the signals and to use large numbers of females in playback experiments. Males of H. rubrofasciata produce drums by striking their abdomen against dry leaves on the g...

organic manure plays an important role in the improvement of soil structure by decreasing bulk density and increasing porosity. however, the method of manure spreading influences its beneficial impact on soil structure. in this study, a novel helical manure distributor machine capable of spreading manure with different moisture contents at maximum distribution width was developed and the machin...

Two measurement systems, one being comprised of three HPGe detectors and the other being a 4π measurement system of the assembly of 10 sets of scintillation detectors, were compared for their measurement performance in operations of radioactive waste drum radioactivity measurement and clearance and release operation of decommissioning. The system features of the former were high costs, capable ...