one of the chapters in the history of iranian music is the place and significance of the musical instrument called oud. this instrument, initially named “barbat”, emerged during the sassanid dynasty. generally known under the name “oud” in islamic era, it became grepopular in islamic countries. in iran, this instrument enjoyed great importance until the fall of the safavid dynasty. from the ear...

The visual arts and music interact with one another on both an individual scale (e.g. music-inspired synesthetes and artist-musician duos) and on a grand scale (e.g. the art movement Baroque, wherein abstract qualities such as “ornamentation” permeate both media). We develop a means to measure one of the many cross-modal similarities between music and visual art to reveal any direct influences ...

Investigating the Business Cycles of Iranian Economy by Considering Effect Financial Accelerator in Form a DSGE Model

The paper focuses on extending to the first order case the semantical program for modalities first introduced by Dana Scott and Richard Montague. We focus on the study of neighborhood frames with constant domains and we offer a series of new completeness results for salient classical systems of first order modal logic. Among other results we show that it is possible to prove strong completeness...

We provide an informal report of work seeking to introduce concurrency into deduction by exploiting modularity. The work arose in the context of a theorem prover for an applied modal action logic, has led to the re-discovery and generalisation of earlier work by Nelson and Oppen and promises a fibered approach to deduction in multi-modal representations of rationality. 1. Background An automate...

One of the major obstacles to appreciating classical music is that extensive training is required to understand musical structure and compositional techniques towards comprehending the thoughts behind the musical work. In this thesis, we propose an innovative visualization solution to reveal the semantic structure in classical orchestral work, such that users can gain insights into musical stru...

Agitation is a common behavioral problem after traumatic brain injury (TBI), which threatens the safety of patients and caregivers and disrupts the rehabilitation process. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a preferred music intervention on the reduction of agitation in TBI patients and to compare the effects of preferred music with those of classical "relaxation" music. A single group...