background : life style is the ordinal and daily activities of individuals in their own lives that they accepted so, these activities affect their health status. the aim of the current study was to determine  teachers' life style in gorgan city in 2009. methods : in a cross-sectional study 336 teachers of elementary, mid and high school were recruited through random stratified sampling method. ...

In this paper, the authors introduce an interactive device, “POWDER BOX” for use by novices in musical sessions. “POWDER BOX” is equipped with sensor-based replaceable interfaces, which enable participants to discover and select their favorite playing styles of musical instruments during a musical session. In addition, it has a wireless communication function that synchronizes musical scale and...

This paper describes category level recognition of unknown musical instruments i e musical instruments which are not contained in training data based on an acoustic feature based musical instrument hierarchy The problem of how the unknown musical instruments should be dealt with is essential in musical instrument recognition However this problem has not been dealt with in previous studies In th...

A study on the automatic classification of musical instrument sounds is presented. A database of musical instrument sounds parameters was built for this purpose, which consists of musical instrument recordings and their parametric representation. The parameterization process was conceived and performed in order to find significant musical instrument sound features and to remove redundancy from ...

Preface. When H. Bouasse published his Instrumentsà Vent in two volumes in 1929–30, he set the starting point for what can be regarded as modern research on musical acoustics. Some 40 years later, the stock of published papers could be counted in their hundreds. However, it is only during the last two or three decades that our physical understanding, in combination with the development of compu...

An interactive museum exhibit of a digitally augmented medieval musical instrument, the tromba marina, is presented. The tromba marina is a curious single stringed instrument with a rattling bridge, from which a trumpet-like timbre is produced. The physical instrument was constructed as a replica of one found in Musikmuseet, a musical instrument museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The replica instru...

In this paper, we discuss a design principle for the musical instruments that are useful for both novices and professional musicians and that facilitate musically rich expression. We believe that the versatility of conventional musical instruments causes difficulty in performance. By dynamically specializing a musical instrument for performing a specific (genre of) piece, the musical instrument...