A review of the literature found that most published studies in musical preference tended to focus on liking for specific or broad categories of musical styles. Various researchers have proposed that musical characteristics are significant in contributing to one's musical preference This article provides an overview of the research on the relationship between selected musical characteristics an...

There are a number of difference brainwave frequencies which relate to different states of arousal. These frequencies are presented in Table 1 below. Individuals with AD/HD tend to experience mental wandering, often drifting in their thoughts, and are unable to centralise their attention or grasp information. This occurs during attentional tasks such as reading or listening to a story. During s...

The optical instruments design has become an earnest demand towards the arrival of an aging society. It is necessary to measure the vision difference that can be permitted before the rivalry occurs for elderly people. In this study, we measured the limit of vision fusion in the normal vision and the cataract experiencing vision which is used to simulate the elderly vision. The result shows that...

OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in human atrial single cell functional electrophysiological properties associated with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF), and the contribution to these of accompanying ion current changes. METHODS The whole cell patch clamp technique was used to record action potentials, the effective refractory period (ERP) and ion currents, in the absence and presence of drug...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: circadian rhythm sleep disorders are a presentation of sleep disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). this study aims to compare this problem in ms patients with healthy people and to determine its association with chronic fatigue in ms patients. materials and methods: a case-control study was performed on 120 ms patients and ...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the chronobiological and time variations of out- hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). DESIGN A retrospective descriptive study was made. PATIENTS All cases of OHCA of cardiac origin registered over 18 months in the database of the emergency medical service (EMS) of the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León (Spain) were evaluated. VARIABLES ANALYZED: Age, sex, recovery of ...

this paper examines the stylistics of the ‘arafa supplication in terms of their acoustic and phonetic levels. this supplication has a unique and consistent texture. the acoustic features of the words and sentences and the repetition of some sounds, words and phrases and acoustic syllables, as well as literary devices such as rhyme and paronomasia tend to increase the rhythm of speech. in fact, ...

OBJECTIVE Deep hypothermia is used as a neuroprotectant during cardiac surgery utilizing deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), although the ideal rewarming strategy is not known yet. Some of the neuroprotective properties of hypothermia seem to be mediated by Nuclear Factor Kappa B (NFκB) as an important transcription factor. The current study was designed to investigate the effect of the...