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A biologically based neuromuscular simulator was used to produce short(SLR) and medium-latency reflexes (MLR) observed after a stretch of the SO muscle. As expected, SLR was exclusively mediated by the activity of Ia afferents passing through a monosynaptic pathway. The MLR was generated by a summation of effects from Ia and type-II afferents, though it could be generated without the activity o...

We re-analyze the observed magnitude-redshift relation of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and examine the possibility that the apparent acceleration of the cosmic expansion is not caused by dark energy but is instead a consequence of the large-scale inhomogeneities in the universe. We propose a method to phenomenologically describe the effects of the large-scale inhomogeneities without relying on t...

Genes mapping in the I region of the H-2 complex control a system of lymphocyte alloantigens (Ia) which are expressed on a subpopulation of T cells and on most B cells. Specific anti-Ia serum in the presence of rabbit complement removed the splenic T-cell subpopulation responsive to Con-A, but did not affect the response to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) or Leucoagglutinin. Antibodies specific for Ia...

It is often said that music affects the impression of our environment and also our behavior. The author’s group previously investigated the effect of music on the performance and impression in the virtual environmental context of video games; racing games and Pachi-slot games (slot-machine type games). The results commonly showed that the “no music” condition provided the best performances, and...

French accentuation is held to belong to the level of the phrase. Consequently French is considered ‘a language without accent’ with speakers that are ‘deaf to stress’. Recent ERP-studies investigating the French initial accent (IA) however demonstrate listeners not only discriminate between different stress patterns, but also prefer words to be marked with IA early in the process of speech com...

Let a be a natural number greater than 1. For each prime p, let ia(p) denote the index of the group generated by a in F∗p. Assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis and Conjecture A of Hooley, Fomenko proved in 2004 that the average value of ia(p) is constant. We prove that the average value of ia(p) is constant without using Conjecture A of Hooley. More precisely, we show upon GRH that for a...

One of my research goals is to enrich music listening experiences by deepening each person’s understanding of music. Music listening experiences depend on music-understanding abilities. Although the music-composing/performing abilities of musicians are often discussed, the music-understanding abilities of casual listeners have not been well discussed or studied. It is difficult, for example, to...

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...

Individual differences in the strength of music preference are among the most intricate psychological phenomena. While one person gets by very well without music, another person needs to listen to music every day and spends a lot of temporal and financial resources on listening to music, attending concerts, or buying concert tickets. Where do these differences come from? The hypothesis presente...