The aim of the study was to assess the effect of short-term perceptual training of music on some psycho-acoustical measures. The study was carried out in three phases. In first the phase pre-training evaluation was done which included raga identification and various psycho acoustical tests. Psycho-acoustical tests included measurement of differential limen of frequency and intensity, duration d...

The aim of this study was to investigate the long term efficacy of family-focused cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) compared with psycho-education in improving school attendance and other secondary outcomes in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). A 24 month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial was carried out. Participants received either 13 one-hour sessions of family-focused...

the prevalence of allergic diseases is high in the general population, and the high prevalence of these diseases not only leads to considerable mortality and morbidity, but also has economic importance. in this study 400 patients were evaluated in tehran and karaj cities during 1995-1998. skin prick test with stan¬dard extracts was done in patients in comparison with controls. selection of ex¬t...

In this chapter psycho-physical methods which are useful for both psycho-acoustics and sound-quality engineering will be discussed, namely, the methods of random access, the semantic differential, category scaling and magnitude estimation. Models of basic psycho-acoustic quantities like loudness, sharpness and roughness as well as composite metrics like psycho-acoustic annoyance will be introdu...

No-reference image quality assessment needs no prior knowledge of reference image. A new fuzzy image quality measure (built from interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IFS2)) is compared with experimental psycho-visual data. The proposed measure is based on IFS2 entropy applied on synthetic images. A recently performed psycho-visual experiment provides psycho-visual scores on some synthetic images, and co...

The majority of Canadian children are not physically active enough for healthy development. School playgrounds are a primary location to promote physical activity and motor skill practice. The benefits of children's play in nature have also been highlighted, but few studies have evaluated children's access and exposure to nature for play on school grounds. This study examined children's access ...

The article continues and develops the experience of actual reading one significant, but littlestudied works prominent Kyiv Hebrew scholar biblical last third XIX – early XX century, professor Theological Academy Yakym Olesnytsky. Through religious study reinterpretation structural elements Talmudic mythology discovered by Olesnytsky, peculiarities evolution agadic picture world were revealed. ...