Academic Articles & Research Papers

Volcanic Pozzolan from the Phlegraean Fields in the Structural Mortars of the Roman Temple of Nora (Sardinia)

In this paper, we discuss the presence of volcanic pozzolans in the structural mortars of the Roman Temple of Nora in Sardinia (3rd c. AD), represented by pyroclastic rocks (pumices and tuffs) employed as coarse and fine aggregates. The pro...

Artist's Statement: Watershed

Artist's Statement for the cover art of IJPS volume 5, issue 2: Watershed, 2018. Music video....

THE VOICE IN THE FORMATION OF THE TEACHERS

This article intends to present the voice, in General Education and specially in Musical Education, as a tool which means more than singing or speaking. Firstly, voice is a personal development way, a resort for communication and self-integ...

El universo del guitarrón chileno

Este artículo emprende el rescate de uno de los instrumentos más representativos de la tradición musical chilena, el guitarrón. Este instrumento, único en América y el mundo, ha acompañado por muchas generaciones a los poetas populares. El ...

"An Airy Spirit": Developing Identity Through Music, Performance, and Perception

How do audiences come to understand a character who appears to lack a discrete performed identity? This paper explores how, in performance, music and theories of magic and reader response interact to create the identity of the musical spiri...

Music therapy-induced changes in salivary cortisol level are predictive of cardiovascular mortality in patients under maintenance hemodialysis

Yi-Chou Hou,1 Yen-Ju Lin,2 Kuo-Cheng Lu,1 Han-Sun Chiang,3 Chia-Chi Chang,4 Li-King Yang1 1Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, School of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, 2Department of Nursing, Taipei Medical Univ...

Developing a Mobile Game Using Scientific Approach to Support Mathematics Learning

The widespread use of smartphones to play games and the lack of use as a medium for learning mathematics is the reason for the need for the development of smartphone-based edutainment learning media. The purpose of this research is to desig...

Surcando caminos de interculturalidad sustentados en la Etnomatemática

This paper narrates facts and consequences of a course focused on Interculturality and Ethnomathematics developed in a Venezuelan Pedagogical University. The reflection is centered on Ethnomathematics and the development of "curricular ethn...

The World of Mathematics

Volume 1: general survey, Philip E.B.Jourdain historical and biographical, Herbert Westren Turnbull et al arithmetic, numbers and the art of counting, Archimedes et al mathematics of space and motion, William Kingdon Clifford et al. Volume ...

Communication (Communication Studies)

Introduction Communication is the academic discipline that studies the phenomenon of communication. In so doing, the discipline of communication considers how communication is constituted, how it occurs, and what the consequences are of par...

The Social Architect: A New Framework for Effective Activism and Social Leadership

Social theories and humanitarian movements, despite their good intentions, have had limited effectiveness. This paper introduces Socio-Systemic science as a conceptual and implementation framework designed for effective high impact systemic...

Some note’s from Farabi ‘s work el-adab el-mulukyye ve al-ahlak el ihtiyariyye

Al-Farabi, known as Muallim-i Sani after Aristotle, is the founder of Islamic philosophy because of his works in the field of logic in the Islamic world as well as in the Turkish world. Although he is busy with all the sciences from theolog...

Erratum to: Search for resonant and nonresonant production of pairs of dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

Nonlinear Dynamics of Swinging Clapper Bells under Arbitrary or Resonant Forcing Functions

Study of swinging clapper bells involves aspects encompassing sound and acoustic engineering, mechanical engineering, and structural engineering. From the musical point of view, clapper bells are directly played idiophone instruments, where...

Natural language processing of lyrics

We report experiments on the use of standard natural language processing (NLP) tools for the analysis of music lyrics. A significant amount of music audio has lyrics. Lyrics encode an important part of the semantics of a song, therefore the...

Computer Vision for Music Identification

We describe how certain tasks in the audio domain can be effectively addressed using computer vision approaches. This paper focuses on the problem of music identification, where the goal is to reliably identify a song given a few seconds of...

Gendered affective representations in AI-assisted music videos: a qualitative multimethod study.

Potential of machine learning approaches for predicting mechanical properties of spruce wood in the transverse direction

Abstract To predict the mechanical properties of wood in the transverse direction, this study used machine learning to extract the anatomical features of wood from cross-sectional stereograms. Specimens with different orientations of the ra...

Computational bioacoustics with deep learning: a review and roadmap

Animal vocalisations and natural soundscapes are fascinating objects of study, and contain valuable evidence about animal behaviours, populations and ecosystems. They are studied in bioacoustics and ecoacoustics, with signal processing and ...

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation