The Living Sonic Organism: An Interactive Live Performance Audio System

This project is an effort to create a live performance system borrowing features from different disciplines in sonic arts and employing multiple audio techniques. The project involves an immersive interactive sonic arts system that combines aspects of sound installation, interactive lighting design, and live sonic arts performance. The completed system was demonstrated with a live performance including three performers from different disciplines in music. The main idea of this project is to create a system that brings together elements from different concepts in sonic arts such as spatial audio, generative music, interactive audio system, and electroacoustic music. The system can be described as a living organism which interacts with the audience while being controlled by both humans and machines in real time. I designed a sonic environment which is alive and running from the very first moment that the audience enters the venue until they leave; a hybrid human-machine controlled system that can project sound through the performance space. In addition to sound art and digital audio, this project examines the relationship between sound and lights in music performances and how the use of lighting in live music can enhance the audience’s experience

Application of GIS and AHP technique for land-use suitability analysis on coastal area in Terengganu

The land use suitability analysis on coastal area was evaluated by application of GIS and AHP method. Land-use suitability is the ability of a given type of land to support a defined use. GIS has been a powerful tool to handle spatial data in land-use analysis, application of this tool alone could not overcome the issue of inconsistency in expert opinion when trying to judge and assign relative importance to each of many criteria considered in a suitability analysis. To address this issue, the Analytical Hierarchy Process method is used in combination with the GIS tool. This study presents how the integrated tool has handled effectively a land use suitability analysis for building hotels in the coastal area of Terengganu in Malaysia. This study develops a framework for integrating the strengths of GIS and the AHP to incorporate the decision maker’s preferences on a range of factors in finding areas/ land suitable for coastal development. The findings indicate that the area 1(2111 m) is the best area to build hotel in the coastal area of Terengganu

Effect of Wind Farm and Thyristor Switched Series Capacitors on a Faulty Network

Controlling voltage and active or reactive losses are one of the most important issues in each power grid. In this paper, the influence of wind farm and thyristors switched capacitors on the network are considered. TSSC and Wind turbines are one of the significant components of each network. These instruments are also one of the resources of producing active and reactive power. In this study, wind farm and TSSC are already located optimally by Genetic algorithm. This network studied when a fault considered in one of buses. So that, in first step none of wind farm and TSSC are in the power grid. In the second step, both wind farm and TSSC are connected while a short circuit accrues in one of the busses or lines of the network.  At the end, it will be observed that using thyristor switched capacitors and wind farm influence the network. So that, the capacity of producing the reactive and active power will be increased and totally the loss of the system will be decreased. Furthermore, the voltage profile will be in a suitable range

The association between healthy eating index score with semen parameters in infertile men: A cross-sectional study

Background: Infertility has been a major problem for young couples in recent years. One way to assay the diet quality is the healthy eating index (HEI), related to infertility. Objective: This study aims to assess the association between the HEI score with semen parameters in Iranian infertile men. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and sixty eligible men (18-55 yr), were referred to the major infertility clinic in the summer of 2018 and entered this cross-sectional study. Based on the 5th edition of the world health organization laboratory manual, semen parameters including sperm concentration, volume, motility, and morphology were analyzed, and to specify the dietary intake of individuals a 168-item questionnaire was used. Also, to calculate the total HEI score, all 13 components based on HEI-2015 components and scoring standards were summed up. Results: Participants in the highest tertile, had no difference in mean sperm parameters with those in the lowest tertile in the crude model. No significant association was found between sperm parameters and HEI score tertiles in the crude model, even after adjustment for potential confounders, except for concentration (OR: 0.39 and CI: 0.15, 0.99, p = 0.04). Participants in the highest tertile had a lower risk of abnormal concentration and motility in the crude model. The risk of abnormal concentration decreased, and motility increased in the adjusted model. Conclusion: In this cross-sectional study, there was no significant relationship between HEI and sperm indexes, except for sperm concentration. Therefore, more studies need to be done in the future. Key words: Diet, Healthy, Semen analysis, Infertility, Cross-sectional studies