Aims and background: To explore music therapy as special education at preschool level. The research has been carried out in a context where the relevance of is understood light children’s rights to inclusion participation. Method: In two focus group interviews, teachers, teachers assistants described their experiences use therapy. Data were analyzed through thematic analysis. Findings: results ...

feeling secure is a prerequisite of any social, economic, cultural and political development and it is directly related to the level of development of the society. being aware of the situation of security feelings of society members plays a key role in recognizing the challenges and development strategies of society and can strengthen the infrastructures of the society. the present study aims t...

Having the possibility to experience meaning in artistic settings is a human right. However, several studies show that structures and norms may prevent beings from participating cultural activities. Moreover, it not given all forms of participation offer meaningful experiences, something which puts great responsibility upon organizers events. The current study based project where elderly people...

This paper studies the acoustic realization of anger, fear, joy and sadness in Chinese. An emotion database of total 288 sentences was collected from nine speakers. Four listeners were asked to judge the emotion type of each sentence, choosing from anger, fear, joy, sadness and neutral. The results suggest that there are two dimensions in the acoustic realization of anger, fear, joy and sadness...

In a paradigm facilitating smile misattribution, facial responses and ratings to contempt and joy were investigated in individuals with or without gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at). Participants from two independent samples (N1 = 83, N2 = 50) rated the intensity of eight emotions in 16 photos depicting joy, contempt, and different smiles. Facial responses were coded by the Facial Action C...

MOTIVATION JOY is a program to annotate protein sequence alignments with three-dimensional (3D) structural features. It was developed to display 3D structural information in a sequence alignment and to help understand the conservation of amino acids in their specific local environments. RESULTS : The JOY representation now constitutes an essential part of the two databases of protein structur...

THE house lights go down, you settle in your seat, and the theater quiets to murmurs of anticipation. The stage lights go up, and, after brief introductions, out walk three men who have shaped our specialty and who continue to shape it. Their names—Severinghaus, Miller, and Shafer—are familiar to most of us as inventors, textbook writers, and researchers, but we are probably a little vague on t...