Silapathikaramm is the first text in Tamil literature. It a very famous epic by Ilango Adigal. This cultural story based on tradition and centers around an anklet. Adigal has used ordinary couple, Kannaki her husband Kovalan. In this harp music given importance. During festive seasons town of Bukhar filled with songs music. The author explained about seven types musical instruments. Madhavi was...

Dr Maxwell Ross showed a couple of reversible nasal saws made for his colleague, Dr Hunter Mackenzie, by Mr Young. They were an improvement upon the saws in previous use, in that they were made so that they could be set at any angle, and their reversibility allowed of their being used to saw upwards or downwards as the operator desired. The serrated edge was not carried all the length of the in...

This paper is a report of new musical instrument/ interface in which the main concept is "untouchable". I will report on not only the system design but also on the performances as applications. The new musical instrument/interface is constructed with infrared rays distance sensors and optical distance sensors. In attending some concerts of computer music in the past, I was inspired with perform...

This issue of the journal includes a publication on the adaptation of the Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) to estimate the risk of death from preventable diseases such as cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD), among other cardiovascular diseases.1 The original system was designed to help guide clinicians responsible for the primary prevention of cardiovascula...

Instrumental variables have proven useful, in particular within the social sciences and economics, for making inference about the causal effect of a random variable, B, on another random variable, C, in the presence of unobserved confounders. In the case where relationships are linear, causal effects can be identified exactly from studying the regression of C on A and the regression of B on A, ...

We document results from exploring ensemble feedback in structured electroacoustic improvisations. A conceptual justification for the explorations is provided, in addition to discussion of tools and methodologies. Physical configurations of intra-ensemble feedback networks are documented, along with qualitative analysis of their e↵ectiveness. Author

This article will discuss the importance of Raimond Castaing's thesis on the genesis of a nondestructive and truly quantitative microanalytical method that assisted the scientific community in moving forward in the development of microanalytical instruments. I will also share with you my recollection of the decades of improvement in the electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA), that has allowed us t...

Anthropometric examinations have been carried out since 1901 (USA) with the aim of developing and furthering the garment and footwear size system. The contribution to the solution of these problems was noticed in the last decades when a technical board was founded and the propositions in ISO norm series as well as in European norm (EN) series were prescribed. Two methods are employed in anthrop...