Creative Arts Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. [PDF]
Chou ASL +11 more
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Effects of Music Intervention on Pain, Mood, Sleep, and Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Wang B +5 more
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Piano performers' experiences of Tai Chi for physical comfort and mental well-being: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Jin P.
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Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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AI-driven music intervention based on five-tone theory for anxiety: a preliminary pre-post feasibility study. [PDF]
Rongrong X, Jing L.
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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
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The impact of peer mentoring on leadership and self-efficacy in higher music education: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
Wu Z, Yao C, Yang N.
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