Background: Perinatal anxiety affects the antenatal woman, growing fetus, and newborn. This systematic review evaluated effect of listening to music on perinatal among pregnant women newborn behaviors. No available reviews focus interventions that include only classical forms or its benefit low-risk Methods: We included peer-reviewed primary research studies anxiety, published in English, betwe...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

AIM The aim of the present study was to examine whether listening to music during warming-up might influence short-term maximal performance (STMP), cognitive anxiety, self-confidence, and enjoyment during Ramadan, and whether these affects might predict STMP. METHODS Nine male physical education students (age: 21 ± 1.1 years; height: 1.8 ± 0.04 m; body mass: 83 ± 5 kg) volunteered to particip...

This paper presents a system that makes use of machine listening techniques to analyse an incoming musical audio signal and determine various musical properties such as dynamics, tempo, and style. With this knowledge, the system generates an expressive drumbeat to accompany the input audio signal in real time. These drumbeats are created with a set of genetic algorithms which are designed to mo...

Background: labor pain one of the most intense forms that can be experienced, leads to fear and anxiety produce muscle tension, with possibly prolong first second stage labor, avoid pharmacological or invasive methods relief in implement listening Holy Qur'an during labor. The aim this study is evaluate effect holy on maternal neonatal outcome. Subjects methods: Design: This quasi-experimental ...

the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on efl learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. fifty students of two upper-intermediate english courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. for sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...

In this study we examined the effect of hypnosis on preoperative anxiety. Subjects were randomized into 3 groups, a hypnosis group (n = 26) who received suggestions of well-being; an attention-control group (n = 26) who received attentive listening and support without any specific hypnotic suggestions and a "standard of care" control group (n = 24). Anxiety was measured pre- and postinterventio...