The Impact of New Age Music as Treatment to Reduce Stress

New Age music is the same as Alternative music. The term New Age take various forms and directions. This music draws on some of the flow of the music on this list, temasuk Ambient, Minimalism, Native American, Drum and Percussion, World, Electronic, Celtic, and Alternative. In music also use this technique entrainment and binaural beats. Entrainment is a principle in physics and is defined as the synchronization of two or more rounds rhythm (synchronization of two or more cycles rhytmic). The principle of this special can be used to create a resonance or synchronization in the brain of a specific frequency. While binaural beats found in 1939 by German eksperimenter HW Dowe. Human ability to "hear" binaural beats appears to be the result of the evolution of adaptation. Some species can detect binaural beats because otaknya structure. Frequency binaural beats that can be detected very depending on the size of the shell species. In the human, binaural beats can didetekdi at approximately below 1500 Hz (Oster, 1973 in Atwater 2004). Problems of relevance is the ability to detect congenital brain difference in phase between the ears to the perception of encouraging binaural beats (Atwater 2004). This research is a research experiment with the 18 people subject to the control group and 27 groups of people to experiment. For the experiment group, space is the space that used audio visual Gunadarma University. Meanwhile, New Age music used was the work of Peaceful Place Ken Davis. By using the seven-speaker, which consists of four large speakers, two speakers and one medium-sized speaker is small. This experiment appeared to be significantly lower level of stress in the experimental group

Dissolved organic carbon transformations and microbial community response to variations in recharge waters in a shallow carbonate aquifer

© 2016, The Author(s). In carbonate aquifers, dissolved organic carbon from the surface drives heterotrophic metabolism, generating CO2 in the subsurface. Although this has been a proposed mechanism for enhanced dissolution at the water table, respiration rates and their controlling factors have not been widely evaluated. This study investigates the composition and concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) reaching the water table from different recharge pathways on a subtropical carbonate island using a combination of DOC concentration measurements, fluorescence and absorption characterisation. In addition, direct measurements of the microbial response to the differing water types were made. Interactions of rainfall with the vegetation, via throughfall and stemflow, increase the concentration of DOC. The highest DOC concentrations are associated with stemflow, overland recharge and dissolution hole waters which interact with bark lignin and exhibit strong terrestrial-derived characteristics. The groundwater samples exhibit the lowest concentrations of DOC and are comprised of refractory humic-like organic matter. The heterotrophic response seems to be controlled by the concentration of DOC in the sample. The terrestrially sourced humic-like matter in the stemflow and dissolution hole samples was highly labile, thus increasing the amount of biologically produced CO2 to drive dissolution. Based on the calculated respiration rates, microbial activity could enhance carbonate dissolution, increasing porosity generation by a maximum of 1%kyr−1 at the top of the freshwater lens

Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Our goal is to develop a state-of-the-art protein secondary structure predictor, with an intuitive and biophysically-motivated energy model. We treat structure prediction as an optimization problem, using parameterizable cost functions representing biological "pseudo-energies". Machine learning methods are applied to estimate the values of the parameters to correctly predict known protein structures.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Focusing on the prediction of alpha helices in proteins, we show that a model with 302 parameters can achieve a Q_{<it>α </it>}value of 77.6% and an SOV_{<it>α </it>}value of 73.4%. Such performance numbers are among the best for techniques that do not rely on external databases (such as multiple sequence alignments). Further, it is easier to extract biological significance from a model with so few parameters.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The method presented shows promise for the prediction of protein secondary structure. Biophysically-motivated elementary free-energies can be learned using SVM techniques to construct an energy cost function whose predictive performance rivals state-of-the-art. This method is general and can be extended beyond the all-alpha case described here.</p

Taking stock of 10 years of published research on the ASHA programme: Examining India’s national community health worker programme from a health systems perspective

Background: As India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker (CHW) programme enters its second decade, we take stock of the research undertaken and whether it examines the health systems interfaces required to sustain the programme at scale. Methods: We systematically searched three databases for articles on ASHAs published between 2005 and 2016. Articles that met the inclusion criteria underwent analysis using an inductive CHW–health systems interface framework. Results: A total of 122 academic articles were identified (56 quantitative, 29 mixed methods, 28 qualitative, and 9 commentary or synthesis); 44 articles reported on special interventions and 78 on the routine ASHA program. Findings on special interventions were overwhelmingly positive, with few negative or mixed results. In contrast, 55% of articles on the routine ASHA programme showed mixed findings and 23% negative, with few indicating overall positive findings, reflecting broader system constraints. Over half the articles had a health system perspective, including almost all those on general ASHA work, but only a third of those with a health condition focus. The most extensively researched health systems topics were ASHA performance, training and capacity-building, with very little research done on programme financing and reporting, ASHA grievance redressal or peer communication. Research tended to be descriptive, with fewer influence, explanatory or exploratory articles, and no predictive or emancipatory studies. Indian institutions and authors led and partnered on most of the research, wrote all the critical commentaries, and published more studies with negative results. Conclusion: Published work on ASHAs highlights a range of small-scale innovations, but also showcases the challenges faced by a programme at massive scale, situated in the broader health system. As the programme continues to evolve, critical comparative research that constructively feeds back into programme reforms is needed, particularly related to governance, intersectoral linkages, ASHA solidarity, and community capacity to provide support and oversight

Kaluza-Klein Dust Filled Universe with Time Dependent Λ in Creation Field Cosmology

Abstract The solution of field equations in the creation field with variable cosmological constant have been obtained for Kaluza-Klein universe. Following Hoyle and Narlikar, we have assumed that universe is filled with dust distribution. To get deterministic solution, a relation between shear ( ) σ and expansion ( ) θ is assumed. The physical aspects of the model are also studied

Exploiting community detection to recommend privacy policies in decentralized online social networks

The usage of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has become a daily activity for billions of people that share their contents and personal information with the other users. Regardless of the platform exploited to provide the OSNs\u2019 services, these contents\u2019 sharing could expose the OSNs\u2019 users to a number of privacy risks if proper privacy-preserving mechanisms are not provided. Indeed, users must be able to define its own privacy policies that are exploited by the OSN to regulate access to the shared contents. To reduce such users\u2019 privacy risks, we propose a Privacy Policies Recommended System (PPRS) that assists the users in defining their own privacy policies. Besides suggesting the most appropriate privacy policies to end users, the proposed system is able to exploits a certain set of properties (or attributes) of the users to define permissions on the shared contents. The evaluation results based on real OSN dataset show that our approach classifies users with a higher accuracy by recommending specific privacy policies for different communities of the users\u2019 friends

Outgroup Residents Attitude Towards the Existence of Special Islamic Housing

A gated community is a gated residential area its mean as a term with a negative connotation related to social segregation. Today there has also been a growing upper-class housing that is devoted to Muslims in Jakarta. One of them is Light Islamic Townhouse in East Jakarta. This case study examines the attitude of the out-group resident to the housing, where the out-group resident is the same neighborhood with the resident of the housing (living in the same Rukun Tetangga). With interviewed to 16 participants and did participant observation, the results show that middle class from the out-group resident consider the existence of the housing as closed, unwilling to blend, and exclusive. While the lower class from the out-group resident considered the existence of the housing to be positive and profitable because of cross-subsidies. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Monitoring and data analysis for the Vadose Zone Monitoring System (VZMS), McClellan AFB. Quarterly status report, August 15, 1997--November 15, 1997

This report contains information on field and laboratory work performed between August 15th and November 15th at site S-7 in IC 34, at McClellan AFB. At this location, a Vadose Zone Monitoring System (VZMS) (LBNL, 1996) is currently being used to collect subsurface data including hydraulic potential, soil gas pressure, moisture content, water chemistry, gas chemistry, and temperature

Synthesis and biological screening of some novel thiazolyl chromones and pyrazoles

798-804Esterification of acid 2<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> with 2-hydroxyacetophenones 1 yielded compounds 3 which have been converted to β-diketones 4<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> by Baker-Venkatraman transformation. A series of 2-substituted chromones 5<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> have been obtained by acid catalysed intramolecular cyclization of β-diketones. Substituted pyrazoles 6 have been obtained from chromones 5. All the synthesized compounds have been confirmed by the spectroscopic techniques. Chromones and pyrazoles have been evaluated for their antibacterial and antifungal efficacy. </span