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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

PLAY ME: interactive sonification of sexual arousal in long-distance relationships

open access: yesPaladyn, 2020
Music is the best medium for expressing emotions and arousal nonverbally. PLAY ME is a gender-neutral Arduino-based system that allows partners in a long-distance relationship to perceive each other’s sexual arousal and to provide stimulation of ...
Arnold Rudolf
doaj   +1 more source

Why can’t you dance to the piper? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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Ballantyne, Patricia H
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Monitoring cortical excitability during repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in children with ADHD: a single-blind, sham-controlled TMS-EEG study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) allows non-invasive stimulation of the human brain. However, no suitable marker has yet been established to monitor the immediate rTMS effects on cortical areas in children.
Bender, Stephan   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Wearable fabric electronics for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications

open access: yesFlexMat, 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

Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground

open access: yesInternational 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theorizing Trikāla: A Generalized Intervallic Approach to Pulse Transformation in South Indian Carnatic Music [PDF]

open access: yesAnalytical Approaches to World Music, 2020
The rich rhythmic/metric construction of South Indian Carnatic music is characterized, in large part, by intricate interplay between an internalized metric cycle called the tāḷa and performed phrases that may generate expressive tension with this tāḷa ...
Wells, Robert
doaj  

The Impact of Different Sounds on Stress Level in the Context of EEG, Cardiac Measures and Subjective Stress Level: A Pilot Study

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2020
Everyone experiences stress at certain times in their lives. This feeling can motivate, however, if it persists for a prolonged period, it leads to negative changes in the human body.
Szczepan Paszkiel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stress Management for Students in Dental Education: a Scoping Review

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stress in the university setting is well‐reported. This scoping review aims to synthesize and evaluate the current literature on stress in dental education to understand stress and stress‐management interventions that have been trialed with dental students.
Gillian D. Boehm   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Real-Time Beat Tracking System with Zero Latency and Enhanced Controllability

open access: yesTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Identifying beat positions in music recordings, a central task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), is commonly referred to as beat tracking. Typically, this involves computing an activation function to reveal frame-wise beat likelihood and then ...
Peter Meier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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