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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the olivocochlear efferent reflex strength in the susceptibility to temporary hearing deterioration after music exposure in young adults

Noise and Health, 2014
The objective of the current study was to evaluate the predictive role of the olivocochlear efferent reflex strength in temporary hearing deterioration in young adults exposed to music.
Keppler Hannah, Dhooge Ingeborg, Maes Leen, Bockstael Annelies, Philips Birgit, Swinnen Freya, Vinck Bart   +6 more
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Wearable fabric electronics for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Overview of textile electronic devices for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications. Abstract With the advent of the big data era, traditional Von Neumann architecture is facing an energy consumption bottleneck due to separated memory and computing units, inspiring the research of brain‐like neuromorphic computing devices for artificial ...
Bo Sun, Lin Lu, Jialin Meng, Tianyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Neuroanatomical and functional correlates in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 19-31, Spring 2025.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a dysfunctional, stable, and pervasive alteration in personality functioning with the inability to adapt to the environment, mental rigidity, and ego‐syntonic, and like all personality disorders is a consistent pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of ...
Giulio Perrotta
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Explorations of Guitar Players’ Attitudes Towards Their Equipment and the Role of Distortion in Rock Music

Current Musicology, 2020
This article has its source in a larger research project on distorted guitar playing in rock music which focuses on distortion’s effect on playability and expressiveness, its psychological influences on chord perception, composition, and production, and ...
Jan-Peter Herbst
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Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Salvatore Mancuso, Shantha Shantha‐Kumari   +4 more
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MoCo + ROVir: Synergy Between Respiratory Motion Compensation and Cardiac Receive Region Focusing for Cardiac MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To improve cardiac motion representation and reduce artifacts for cardiac‐ and respiratory‐resolved imaging through a synergistic combination of retrospective cardiac phased array RF focusing and rigid respiratory motion compensation (MoCo).
Zheyuan Hu, Hsu‐Lei Lee, Tianle Cao, Takegawa Yoshida, Lingceng Ma, J. Paul Finn, Kim‐Lien Nguyen, Anthony G. Christodoulou   +7 more
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Short-term effects of simultaneous cardiovascular workout and personal music device use on the outer hair cell function of young adults

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2016
Background: Recreational noise exposure, including personal music device use (PMD), has become a growing public health concern, as it may potentially result in the development of hearing difficulties. Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the
Bart Vinck, Jessica Freeman, Maggi Soer
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Robust steganographic framework for securing sensitive healthcare data of telemedicine using convolutional neural network

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Data is the key element that runs the modern society. Large amounts of data are being released day by day as a result of many activities. The digital data is transferred through the Internet which may be vulnerable to attacks while transmitting. Especially, the medical data is observed to be of at most importance.
Rupa Ch, Venkayya Yadlapalli, Suhana Sulthana Sk, G. Thippa Reddy, Sandeep Kautish   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Far Can a U-Net Go? An Empirical Analysis of Music Source Separation Performance

Applied Sciences
Music source separation (MSS) focuses on decomposing a mixed audio signal into individual instrumental components and is increasingly relevant for music production, restoration, remixing, education, and music information retrieval. Deep learning methods,
Daniel Kostrzewa, Mikolaj Kondziolka, Robert Brzeski, Jeremiah Abimbola, Pawel Benecki   +4 more
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