Unique Rhythm Research Articles

The rhythm of risk: Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of urban vulnerability with ambulance calls data

Urban vulnerability is affected by changing patterns of hazards due to climate change, increasing inequalities, rapid urban growth and inadequate infrastructure. While we have a relatively good understanding of how urban vulnerability changes in space, we know relatively little about the temporal dynamics of urban vulnerability. This paper presents a framework to assess urban vulnerability over time and space to address this gap. We apply the framework to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague, the Netherlands. Using high-resolution, anonymised ambulance calls and socio-economic, built environment, and proximity data, we identify three temporal patterns: ’Midday Peaks’, ’Early Birds’, and ’All-Day All-Night’. Each pattern represents a unique rhythm of risk arising from the interaction of people with diverse demographic and socio-economic backgrounds and the temporal flow of their daily activities within various urban environments. Our findings also highlight the polycentric nature of modern Dutch cities, where similar rhythms emerge in areas with varying population densities. Through these case studies, we demonstrate that our framework uncovers the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban vulnerability. These insights suggest that a more nuanced approach is necessary for assessing urban vulnerability and enhancing preparedness efforts.

Pszichoterápiás utazások a gyógyítás spirituális világába a Gnawa zene szárnyán: egy antropológiai tanulmány

From the sufferings their art was born, from the torture they lived in during their life as slaves their music was created. From the torturing tools used on them they created their own musical instruments. From their screams as slaves, they composed a new music with unique rhythms. Gnawa become a cultural phenomenon in Morocco. A sufi confrerie imploring God, the prophet and the saints to release them from slavery, torture and the sufferings they encountered. Their music is considered spiritual because it calls souls to join its magic. Gnawa plays a psychotherapeutic role in healing people from various diseases through the practices of syncretic rituals and the trance state they put the participants into. All of these elements music, dances and rituals converge and synthesize into an event called lila a rich ceremony in which the sick tormented by spirits could get healed. This paper examines the practices and impact of the lila ceremony on the community from a psychological point of view revealing each step of the collective healing process and methods as used in the rituals.

Cyberpositionality

In this paper, we propose the concept of cyberpositionality in order to reconceptualize our social positions in the hybridized and multidimensional realities of the digital age. Drawing deeply from critical feminist science and technology studies and feminist epistemologies, we articulate cyberpositionality as the fluid relationship between information systems and the cultural, social, and political dimensions of their users. We articulate three key tensions at the heart of cyberpositionalities: 1) Our digital positions are not neutral nor mimetic reflections of our analog social locations, 2) Time and place in digital systems have unique rhythms, 3) Digital social relations are always mediated and surveilled. We elaborate on each of these tensions, exploring implications related to ontology, geography, temporality, authenticity, and identity. We close with a call to invite other scholars to reimagine the complex entanglements of colliding digital and physical realities through the lenses of cyberpositionality.

Augmentation Embedded Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Predominant Instrument Recognition

Instrument recognition is a critical task in the field of music information retrieval and deep neural networks have become the dominant models for this task due to their effectiveness. Recently, incorporating data augmentation methods into deep neural networks has been a popular approach to improve instrument recognition performance. However, existing data augmentation processes are always based on simple instrument spectrogram representation and are typically independent of the predominant instrument recognition process. This may result in a lack of coverage for certain required instrument types, leading to inconsistencies between the augmented data and the specific requirements of the recognition model. To build more expressive instrument representation and address this inconsistency, this paper constructs a combined two-channel representation for further capturing the unique rhythm patterns of different types of instruments and proposes a new predominant instrument recognition strategy called Augmentation Embedded Deep Convolutional neural Network (AEDCN). AEDCN adds two fully connected layers into the backbone neural network and integrates data augmentation directly into the recognition process by introducing a proposed Adversarial Embedded Conditional Variational AutoEncoder (ACEVAE) between the added fully connected layers of the backbone network. This embedded module aims to generate augmented data based on designated labels, thereby ensuring its compatibility with the predominant instrument recognition model. The effectiveness of the combined representation and AEDCN is validated through comparative experiments with other commonly used deep neural networks and data augmentation-based predominant instrument recognition methods using a polyphonic music recognition dataset. The results demonstrate the superior performance of AEDCN in predominant instrument recognition tasks.

The Historical and Political Portrait of Time in Tamar Hovhannisyan’s Poetry

Key words: politics-slaughter of life, woman-creator of life, poetic mirror of the face of time, poignant peer review, a woman’s heart, geopolitical warfare The light and shadow of time, harmony and ferocity are bipolar phenomena, the ebb and flow of spiritual emotions that determine the pulsating tension of historical and political poetry of Tamar Hovhannisyan. The main research issues in the article are the opposition of the woman-creator of life and politics-slaughter of life in Tamar Hovhannisyan’s poetry and the face of time reflected in a poetic mirror. The political rotation of the Earth in the historicopolitical and historicopsychological poetry of Hovhannisyan penetrates into the heart of a woman, varying from a personal model of psychological perception of time to an impersonal model, from individual to the universal poetry. Tamar Hovhannisyan’s poetry is women’s poetry, which embodies and reflects the tremendous pain caused by a man, the invasion of death into the valley of life, the victory of the hell over the heaven. In her works, the political course of the Earth wails like a stretched nerve string, with variations in voice and style, with the harmony of emotions. Tamar Hovhannisyan’s poetry transforms into the poetic mirror of time, in which her portraits are displayed, refracted and reflected. This is a dramatic poetry of the conflict between a woman and politics, the painful opposition of the life-giving woman to life-destroying geopolitics. Tamar Hovhannisyan's poetry is exceptional and engrossing with its original art of creating images, a unique rhythm of lines and feminine depths of thoughts and feelings. Combining the peculiarities of Western and Armenian literature, subtly integrating them or making smooth transitions, Hovhannisyan created a deeply personal, but also universal poetry, which is the subject of study for present and future philologists.

Circadian-mediated regulation of cardiometabolic disorders and aging with time-restricted feeding.

Circadian rhythms are present throughout biology, from the molecular level to complex behaviors such as eating and sleeping. They are driven by molecular clocks within cells, and different tissues can have unique rhythms. Circadian disruption can trigger obesity and other common metabolic disorders such as aging, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, and circadian genes control metabolism. At an organismal level, feeding and fasting rhythms are key drivers of circadian rhythms. This underscores the bidirectional relationship between metabolism and circadian rhythms, and many metabolic disorders have circadian disruption or misalignment. Therefore, studying circadian rhythms may offer new avenues for understanding the etiology and management of obesity. This review describes how circadian rhythm dysregulation is linked with cardiometabolic disorders and how the lifestyle intervention of time-restricted feeding (TRF) regulates them. TRF reinforces feeding-fasting rhythms without reducing caloric intake and ameliorates metabolic disorders such as obesity and associated cardiac dysfunction, along with reducing inflammation. TRF optimizes the expression of genes and pathways related to normal metabolic function, linking metabolism with TRF's benefits and demonstrating the molecular link between metabolic disorders and circadian rhythms. Thus, TRF has tremendous therapeutic potential that could be easily adopted to reduce obesity-linked dysfunction and cardiometabolic disorders.

Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Gesture

In the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), James Weldon Johnson argues that “the colored poet in the United States needs to do something like what Synge did for the Irish.” This article considers the theatrical works of Zora Neale Hurston in light of Johnson’s injunction. In their theatres, John Millington Synge and Zora Neale Hurston work to create a breathing archive of Irish and Black American cultures, respectively, using the stage to portray Irish and Black American folk cultures and give spectators the opportunity to see, hear, and experience performative aspects of those traditions. In addition to drafting scripts that attempt to stage Irish and Black American rituals, their emphasis on interpreting the unique rhythms of vernacular spoken traditions and of directly staging collected folk stories offers evidence of this goal. This article focuses on the use of the keen in Riders to the Sea and the use of the cakewalk in Color Struck to highlight how Synge and Hurston locate rituals in their cultural contexts, thereby giving a representation of them that audiences might consider authentic, while also writing against the stereotypes associated with the cultures under discussion.

마크 머피의 스캣 리듬 분석 연구 - 리듬 그루핑의 변칙 구조를 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study is to present an anomalous rhythm grouping structure by analyzing the rhythm grouping of scat used by Mark Murphy so that vocalists using scat can utilize various rhythms. In an interview with Kathryn Irene Reid, Jazz vocalist Mark Murphy said that the instrumentalist who had the greatest influence on his improvisation style was Miles Davis. and He said he listens to many jazz musicians, including Lester Young and Billie Holiday, to develop and train his musical style. In this way, Murphy has devised his own individual ways to extend music based on the bebop tradition, Murphy's solos use interesting melodic ideas and different chord tones and extensions to balance them out and creating his own unique scat syllables and creative rhythm patterns. In order to analyze from the point of view of grouping, the research method was centered on the anomalously expressed unique rhythm among the rhythms used in Murphy's studio album and live performance album, and the anomalous rhythm grouping structure applied to the analyzed song was presented. Murphy's scat rhythm deviates from the basic beat of the song, and the anomalous grouping structure with a length of two eighth notes, the length of one beat plus two of the eighth note triplets, and patterns of 6 beats and 5 beats is applied as a continuous repeating pattern, resulting in a unique rhythmic structure.

Other rhythm abnormalities found in 10,593 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation over a 14-day ambulatory ECG monitoring period

Abstract Background The incidence of other arrhythmias in patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (PAF) can affect choice of subsequent diagnostic procedures as well as drug, implanted device and ablation management. In the endless stream of new ECG monitoring technologies, whose primary focus sits on AF identification, other arrhythmias can be minimized in their importance. And yet, in patients with PAF, management is often altered by the presence of both significant and even subtle additional concomitant rhythm abnormalities. Clinically meaningful non-PAF rhythms may not be reliably captured by most cardiac ambulatory ECG monitors, especially those focusing purely on AF. Purpose The objective of this study was to identify the extent and types of other unique rhythm abnormalities that might influence management in patients found to have PAF on a routine outpatient ambulatory ECG. Methods A total of 10,593 pts wearing an ambulatory ECG monitor had PAF. Monitors were ordered for standard clinical indications predominantly by their managing cardiologists. Patient ECG data was interpreted by 3 serial readers clinically informed on electrophysiological principles of arrhythmia diagnostics. Concomitant rhythm disorders, as manifested on the surface ECG monitor, were then quantified as a percentage of the PAF study population. Patients with chronic AF were excluded from this analysis. Results The primary results are summarized in Figure 1. Of 10,593 pts with PAF, only 391 (4%) were found to have only PAF and no other rhythm abnormalities. At least 1 additional rhythm abnormality was found in 96% and 2-to-8 additional rhythm disorders were present in 68% of patients. Conclusion Nearly all patients with PAF have additional rhythm abnormalities that can only be identified using a cardiac monitor with high P-wave fidelity. Even modest, and certainly serious, additional ECG rhythm abnormalities can alter physician management of PAF as pertains to selection of additional diagnostic testing, drug choice, device selection, and/or ablation specifics. Simplistic and/or commercial grade ECG monitors cannot provide such detail and carry the risk of misdirecting patient management. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding sources: None.

Rhythms of organizational cultures in mergers and acquisitions of companies

Basing on the conception of E. Hall, the article develops the concept of the organizational culture rhythm. Rhythm is the alternation of certain events (processes) and temporary pauses between them. Every company that has been existing for a relatively long time has a unique rhythm determined by the national business culture, technology and managerial preferences. In the processes of mergers and acquisitions, the task of synchronizing the organizational cultures rhythms emerges. The authors analyze the principles and methods of such synchronization.

Математическое моделирование эндокринной системы

Hormones, having their own unique rhythms of secretion, have a systemic effect on all organs and systems of the human body. Combined mathematical modeling and experimental approaches have shown that these rhythms are the result of regulatory processes occurring at many levels of the body and require constant dynamic balancing, especially in response to stimuli. In a review of the literature, we have shown how such a hybrid approach has been successfully applied to unravel the complex mechanisms of regulation of carbohydrate metabolism (metabolic axis), hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axes. In addition, the prospects for further development of this direction are shown.

The beauty of Lusheng dance of Miao nationality in China

Lusheng dance of Miao nationality in Guizhou, China has a long history. It embodies the profound cultural essence of miao nationality for thousands of years, carries the ancient and simple cultural gene of Miao nationality, and tells the world the cultural history of Miao nationality in a unique form of music and dance. Because no native words, miao miao long civil first dance in the form of its record, the ethnic migration, war, and the production, marriage, funeral, such as natural relations, through the understanding of the objective, and follow the nation's aesthetic ideal, aesthetic psychology, abstraction and generalization, exaggeration and deformation to its record, created the style chic, unique rhythm of the miao nationality dance. Lusheng dance has penetrated into every aspect of miao social life. The lusheng and lusheng dance were performed in the worship of ancestors, production and labor, and weddings and funerals. The lusheng played and danced for tens of miles, and people came to participate in the grand event.

Time and the Making of Space in Urban Development

ABSTRACT In this essay, we describe how rhetoric’s theories of temporality can inform ongoing urban development. We examine a transportation planning case to suggest that urban development must value contributions from people, places, and ecologies with their own unique rhythms. We coin the term coeval rhetorical temporalities to describe the multiple and sometimes conflicting scales of time that nonhuman and human participants bring to transportation planning. To demonstrate our notion of coeval rhetorical temporalities and the consequences of disregarding them, we highlight how human notions of progress are being used to legitimize road development that is neither efficient, ethical, nor resilient.

Adaptasi dan Transformasi Lagu Adat dalam Liturgi Gereja Katolik di Manggarai Flores

Manggarai, a community in Flores, Eastern Indonesia is known for its rich culture of folk songs with unique rhythm and lyrics. There are various types of folk songs for different purposes such as traditional chants, harvest celebrations, lamentation of the dead, war anthems, children songs, and other profane functions. When European missionaries started Catholic evangelization in Manggarai in the beginning of the 20th century, many of these folk songs were prohibited due to their use in rituals deemed idolatry. However, some missionaries saw the potential of folk songs for evangelization and empowered local artists to arrange Catholic liturgical songs based on these traditional songs. Eventually, many folk songs were adapted and transformed into Catholic hymns. This paper explores this irony through socio-historical research to understand the relationship dynamics between the Catholic Church and the Manggaraian culture. This research has discovered that there is a dialectical encounter between Catholicism and the Manggaraian culture which has shaped a unique identity of the Catholic Church in Manggarai

Problems of interpretation of the piano compositions byZhangZhao (on the example of the Fantasy “Pihuang”)

Problems of interpretation of the piano compositions byZhangZhao (on the example of the Fantasy “Pihuang”)

Analysis of diagonals in cross recurrence plots between heart rate and systolic blood pressure during supine position and active standing in healthy adults.

The inter beat interval (IBI) duration and systolic blood pressure (SBP) are cardiovascular variables related through several feedback mechanisms. We propose the analysis of diagonal lines in cross recurrence plots (CRPs) from IBI and SBP embedded within the same phase space to identify events where trajectories of both variables concur. The aim of the study was to describe the relationship between IBI and SBP of healthy subjects using CRP and diagonal analysis during baseline condition-supine position (SP)-and how the relationship changes during the physiological stress of active standing (AS). IBI and SBP time series were obtained from continuous blood pressure recordings during SP and AS (15 min each) in 19 young healthy subjects. IBI and SBP time series were embedded within a five-dimensional phase space using an embedding delay estimated from cross correlation between IBI and SBP. During SP, mean CRP showed high determinism (≥85%) and also brief but repeated events where both variables stay within a reduced space. Most quantitative recurrences analysis indexes of CRP increased significantly (p < 0.05) during AS. CRP analysis showed short diagonals indicating a very strong deterministic relationship between IBI and SBP with intermittent unlocking periods. The strength of IBI and SBP relationship increased during the physiological stress of AS. The CRP method allowed a rigorous quantitative description of the deterministic association between these two variables. Diagonal lines were intermittent and not always parallel, showing that there is not a defined and unique rhythm. This suggests the activation of different influences at different times and with different precedence between the heart rate and blood pressure in response to AS.

Gandalia Art of Banyumas : a Socio-cultural Change

Gandalia is one example of musical arts which can endure changes and times. It is a typical Banyumas traditional music which was used to play a specific Gandalia song, an agricultural pest repellent song. Its instruments has similar forms to musical instruments called Angklung, which are made from bamboo. The instruments produce a unique rhythm. At first, Gandalia was used as a means to drive agricultural pests away, but in its development, it becomes a musical performance. This change is interesting to be studied from the socio-cultural point of view. The writer, therefore, studied the functional change of Gandalia musical instruments based on the socio-cultural change which occur in the society who supports it. In writing this article, the research method applied is qualitative method, a method of collecting data by applying some techniques such as interview, observation, and documentation, while the validity of the data is checked by using triangulation, member checking, and rich and thick description.Milesr that, the data are analyzed using qualitative analysis of Miles and Huberman that is an interactive model of data analysis including some stages such as the process of data collecting, data reduction, and data presentation and verification. The research result shows that Gandalia music which, at first, was a means of driving pests away, now becomes one of the performance arts. This change is influenced by the socio-culture of the society who supports Gandalia art. They are the people of Tambaknegara, Banyumas Regency. This socio-cultural change has created a more complex form of Gandalia art.

Beijing Opera Synthesis Based on Straight Algorithm and Deep Learning

Speech synthesis is an important research content in the field of human-computer interaction and has a wide range of applications. As one of its branches, singing synthesis plays an important role. Beijing Opera is a famous traditional Chinese opera, and it is called Chinese quintessence. The singing of Beijing Opera carries some features of speech but it has its own unique pronunciation rules and rhythms which differ from ordinary speech and singing. In this paper, we propose three models for the synthesis of Beijing Opera. Firstly, the speech signals of the source speaker and the target speaker are extracted by using the straight algorithm. And then through the training of GMM, we complete the voice control model to input the voice to be converted and output the voice after the voice conversion. Finally, by modeling the fundamental frequency, duration, and frequency separately, a melodic control model is constructed using GAN to realize the synthesis of the Beijing Opera fragment. We connect the fragments and superimpose the background music to achieve the synthesis of Beijing Opera. The experimental results show that the synthesized Beijing Opera has some audibility and can basically complete the composition of Beijing Opera. We also extend our models to human-AI cooperative music generation: given a target voice of human, we can generate a Beijing Opera which is sung by a new target voice.

Spatializing higher education: Emirati women learners’ hot and cold spaces

This article is concerned with the types of lived spaces that emerged from exploring Emirati women learners’ spatial experiences in higher education. By conducting an ethnographic qualitative inquiry and by utilizing Lefebvre’s triad of the perceived, conceived and lived space and rhythmanalysis as a theoretical framework, two distinctive categories of the lived space emerged: ‘Hot’ and ‘Cold’ spaces, with their sub-categorizations. These emergent spaces reveal and reflect Emirati women learners’ spatial needs and experiences as manifested through their spatial appropriation and unique rhythms on campus. The findings also extend our understanding and utilization of Lefebvre’s abstract triad, specifically the lived space, and confirm how space is neither abstract nor static, but socially constructed, dynamic as well as culturally and contextually bound. The spatial focus of this study offers a novel way of thinking about women’s experiences and needs in higher education, thus extending the scholarly work on spatializing education.

من صور التناسق الصوتی فی العربیة دراسة تطبیقیة على القرآن الکریم

من صور التناسق الصوتی فی العربیة دراسة تطبیقیة على القرآن الکریم