Rhythm and bacteria

Musical Rhythm , Linguistic Rhythm , and Human Evolution

THERE IS NOW A VIGOROUS debate over the evolutionary status of music. Some scholars argue that humans have been shaped by evolution to be musical, while others maintain that musical abilities have not been a target of natural selection but reflect an alternative use of more adaptive cognitive skills. One way to address this debate is to break music cognition into its underlying components and d...

Changes in blood pressure and heart rhythm during transhiatal esophagectomy

Background: Esophagectomy is considered to be the main treatment for esophageal malignancies. Among the different methods, transhiatal approach can cause less damage to patients and is widely used however, manipulation of esophagus result in heart rate and blood pressure variations. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in blood pressure and heart rhythm during transhiatal esophagect...

Dissociation with interference, reciprocal rhythm, and coronary sinus rhythm.

Scapulohumeral rhythm: relationship between motion velocity and rhythm.

The relative contributions of scapulothoracic and glenohumeral motion at different rates of shoulder motion were studied through adduction to abduction in the scapular plane. Nineteen shoulders of 10 healthy individuals (all men, 24-30 years of age) were analyzed using an image intensifier and a high-resolution digital video system. High- and low-speed motion consisted of 2 and 4 seconds per on...

Czech Speech Rhythm and the Rhythm Class Hypothesis

While a number of languages have been classified as either syllableor stress-timed, the case of Czech remains unclear. In this paper we make predictions about Czech rhythm on the basis of our analysis of syllable complexity in recorded samples of Czech. The results on syllable complexity show mixed features. This is reflected in the classification of Czech rhythm using rhythm measures based on ...