Seeing music: The perception of melodic ‘ups and downs’ modulates the spatial processing of visual stimuli.

Musical melodies have “peaks” and “valleys”. Although the vertical component of pitch and music is well-known, the mechanisms underlying its mental representation still remain elusive. We show evidence regarding the importance of previous experience with melodies for crossmodal interactions to emerge. The impact of these crossmodal interactions on other perceptual and attentional processes was also studied. Melodies including two tones with different frequency (e.g., E4 and D3) were repeatedly presented during the study. These melodies could either generate strong predictions (e.g., E4-D3-E4-D3-E4-[D3]) or not (e.g., E4-D3-E4-E4-D3-[?]). After the presentation of each melody, the participants had to judge the colour of a visual stimulus that appeared in a position that was, according to the traditional vertical connotations of pitch, either congruent (e.g., high-low-high-low-[up]), incongruent (high-low-high-low-[down]) or unpredicted with respect to the melody. Behavioural and electroencephalographic responses to the visual stimuli were obtained. Congruent visual stimuli elicited faster responses at the end of the experiment than at the beginning. Additionally, incongruent visual stimuli that broke the spatial prediction generated by the melody elicited larger P3b amplitudes (reflecting ‘surprise’ responses). Our results suggest that the passive (but repeated) exposure to melodies elicits spatial predictions that modulate the processing of other sensory events

Ceramic Resource Selection and Social Violence in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest

This dissertation examines the relationship between social violence and ceramic resource procurement. Do people in middle-range societies alter resource use in response to conflict? Specifically, does social strife influence the distance to which potters in middle-range societies will travel to collect ceramic resources? Distance and quality are primary elements in clay selection. Clay is heavy, so for many potters distance is the determining factor in clay selection (Arnold 1985, 2000). Arnold (1985, 2000) estimated procurement thresholds using worldwide ethnographic data from 111 traditional societies. He found that for both clays and tempers, people prefer to travel only one kilometer, but they will go up to four kilometers if necessary. These thresholds were the basis for the field component of this research. Pottery production occurred throughout the American Southwest under conditions of pervasive conflict in the 13th century A.D. The Gallina area is an ideal location for investigating resource procurement and social violence in northwestern New Mexico. Conflict in this area is evidenced by defensive architecture, such as towers and cliff houses (Haas and Creamer 1985; Mackey and Green 1979; Schulman 1949, 1950), burned structures with human remains (Gallenkamp 1953; Hibben 1944; Mackey and Green 1979), and human remains with embedded projectile points and skull trauma (Chase 1976; Mackey and Green 1979). Two sites in the Gallina area were chosen, one with a defensive setting and architecture the other with an open site plan and no defensive structures. Ceramics from each of the sites and the clay resources in proximity to the sites were examined to see if conflict affected resource selection. X-ray diffraction (XRD) determined the clay mineralogy of ceramic pastes and the collected natural clays, petrography identified the aplastic mineralogy of the sherds and collected samples, and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) provided the chemistry of the ceramic pastes and the natural clays. Numerous field and laboratory characterizations provided more information about the qualities of the available clays and the ceramics themselves. The combined results of the laboratory tests, mineralogical studies, and chemical comparisons indicate that Gallina potters did not alter their resource selection in response to social violence

All things coherence

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Physics, 2002Includes bibliographical reference

PENYULUHAN TENTANG DETEKSI DINI KANKER SERVIKS

Cervical cancer is cancer with number incident number four the most what happens to women The whole world and cancer most freguently within the country low income (Mustafa dkk 2016) cervical cancer is a malignity caused by exists language cell growth ephithelium cervix Uncontrollable(mirayashi 2013).according to cervical cancer 99,7% caused by human papillomavirus (hpv) oncogene that attacks the uterus cervical cancer is most malignant tumor Which grow inside cerviks that is lowest part womb attaced at the top female genitals (hartati dkk 2014).based on the exposure cervical cancer or which known as cancer cerviks is tumor Most malignant  is cerviks caused by human papillomavirus the main cause cervical cancer is Human papilloma virus (HPV)more than 90% cancer cerviks womb is sguamous is  wich contain DNA virus human papilloma virus (HPV) and 50% cervical cancer associated with human papilloma  virus type 16. Virus HPV can spread through contact sexual especially in relationships sexual which is not safe. The HPV virus attacks the membranes in the mouth  and esophagus and anus .and will cause the formation  of precancerous cells in the long term.(ridayani 2016).the HPV virus will attach to the cell surfare reseptor by means of an attachment virus that spreads or the survace of the virus.HPVthat will attach to the cell surface receptors will penetrate , the existence of a wound makes it easier for the virus to enter the cell.the virus enters and releases the genome after which the capsit is destroyed afte the virus enters the cell nucleus, the virus performs transcription by turning its DNA into MRNA.(Yanti , 2013),the mechanisme of cervical cancer is related to the cell cycle expressed by HPV.the main proteins associated with carcinogens are E6 and E7. The silkular HPV geno form if integrated will become linear and truncated between the E2 and E1 genes . integration between the HPV genome and human DNA causes the E2 gene to malfunction so that it stimulates E6 to bind to p53 and E7 to bind to prb.     &nbsp

Alejandro Sawa en una necrológica desconocida de Arturo Vinardell

An obituary about the writer Alejandro Sawa is exhumed, of which nothing seemed to be known about. Signed in Paris under the pseudonym "Darwin" (Arturo Vinardell Roig), the document is a firsthand witness to the best biographical knowledge of the famous bohemian. New clues and readings on his Parisian stage are offered starting from the analysis that this work provides.Se exhuma una crónica necrológica sobre el escritor Alejandro Sawa, de la que hasta ahora no parecía tenerse noticia. Firmada en París bajo el seudónimo de "Darwin" (Arturo Vinardell Roig), sus líneas constituyen un testimonio de primera mano para el mejor conocimiento biográfico del célebre bohemio. Del análisis que este trabajo ofrece se desprenden nuevas claves y lecturas sobre su etapa parisina

Kinematic analysis of embryo development

This project consists on a Kinematic analysis of Drosophila embryo development, generally known as the fruit fly. This work is involved in professor Jose J. Muñoz works from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. An algorithm for computing displacements have been proved and calibrated. Thus, the errors have been measured due to an artificial displacement that has been imposed to the real images. Finally the optimal parameters have been deduced and applied to the algorithm with the real images resulting in an intuitive and quantitative visualization of embryo cells displacements. Lastly, with the computed displacements, forces exerted by cells could be computed

RESEARCHES REGARDING THE BAKERY FEATURES OF TRANSYLVANIAN WHEAT

This paper is willing to present some final results of the research (CNCSIS theme) which has the main scope to study the correlations between the mycotic and mycotoxic charge of the wheat seeds from Transylvania area and the bakery features of the flour obtained from these seeds. Current data are referring to bakery features of the wheat seeds harvested in 2005, 2006 and 2007 from all Transylvanian districts

Refuncionalización de entidades comerciales

Práctica Supervisada (IC)--FCEFN-UNC, 2014Trata sobre el relevamiento de anomalías y patologías por deterioro en construcciones, realización de pruebas para verificación de problemas y determinación de solucione

RESEARCHES CONCERNING OF USING COOLING OF THE PRESERVATION WINE METHODS

The wine treatment through the instantly shock-chilling method, until to the freezing point, with efficiency and low power consumption, follows natural quality impruve come through the undesired elements sedimentation from organolepical and microbiologycal viewpoints in the presence of negative temperatures