The Domestic Acoustic Environment in Online Education—Part 2: Different Interference Perception of Sound Sources and While Conducting Academic Tasks by Virginia Puyana-Romero, Angela María Díaz-Márquez, Christiam Garzón, Giuseppe Ciaburro

“…This study aimed to evaluate perceived differences in the interference of five types of sound (traffic, voices, TV/radio/household appliances, music, and animals) while conducting autonomous and synchronous activities during online learning. …”
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Transformation of Melodrama in Turkish Cinema from Yeşilçam to the Present: The Films Innocence and Destiny by Kemal Çelik

“…Demirkubuz’s two films selected as samples carry the general characteristics of Yeşilçam melodramas such as exaggerated emotions, missed happiness, extremes, bipolar lives, event structures based on cause-and-effect relationships, monologue uses, music uses, while they differ from them at an important point. …”
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Professionals’ Perspectives of Smart Stationary Bikes in Rehabilitation: Qualitative Study by Julie Soulard, Dahlia Kairy, Roua Walha, Cyril Duclos, Sylvie Nadeau, Claudine Auger

“…Seven main themes emerged: (1) bike functionalities (cycling assistance, asymmetric resistance, and forward and backward cycling), (2) interface between bike and users (simple, user-friendly, personalized, with written reminders during training), (3) feedback to users (user and performance data), (4) training programs (preprogrammed and personalized, and algorithmic programs), (5) user engagement (telerehabilitation, group sessions, music, and automatic suggestion of training), (6) the bike as a physical device (dimensions, comfort, setup, screen, etc), and (7) business model (various pricing strategies, training for professionals, and after-sales service). …”
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‘O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth tremble before him’ (Psalm 96:9)

“…Attendance at Cathedral-type worship where dignified ceremony and beautiful music leave the worshipper free to place his or her own interpretation on the words is steadily increasing. …”
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Effect of Stress on Autonomic and Cardiovascular Systems in Military Population: A Systematic Review by Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Valentín E. Fernández-Elías, Alberto J. Hormeño-Holgado, Athanasios A. Dalamitros, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

“…Autonomic and cardiovascular chronic stress seems to be modulated by experience and previous specific training of each military unit. Physical exercise, music embedded with binaural beat technology, bidirectional sensory motor rhythm training, heart rate variability biofeedback, and transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation are the main techniques applied to balance stress and to recover body homeostasis. …”
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Students’ cross-domain mindset profiles and academic achievement in Finnish lower-secondary education by Jenni Laurell, Ita Puusepp, Kai Hakkarainen, Kirsi Tirri

“…The Fixed profile was linked to the lowest achievement, except in reading, foreign languages, and music, where Mixed and Fixed profiles performed similarly. …”
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CD-LLMCARS: Cross Domain Fine-Tuned Large Language Model for Context-Aware Recommender Systems by Adeel Ashraf Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz, Usman Habib, Qamar Uz Zaman, Ekkarat Boonchieng

“…Fine-tuning Llama 2 with information from multiple domains can enhance the generation of contextually relevant recommendations that align with a user's preferences in areas such as movies, music, books, and CDs. Techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and Half Precision Training (FP16) are both effective and resource-efficient, allowing CD-LLMCARS to perform optimally in cold start scenarios. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. …”
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Carbon emission and energy risk management in mega sporting events: challenges, strategies, and pathways by Xiao-zhong Su, Xiao-zhong Su, Li Chen, Xin Long Xu, Xin Long Xu

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TEACHING AND ASSESSING INDEPENDENT LISTENING IN AN ONLINE COURSE FOR TRANSLATION MAJORS by Olga G. Kvasova, Nataliia K. Liamzina, Roksoliana I. Radchuk, Yulia I. Trykashna

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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…It can be claimed that Waters’s narrative ploys are borrowed from the theatrical world which held a real fascination for Dickens. With English Music, Ackroyd, for his part, illustrates what Clayton in his study: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace (2003) calls “undisciplined” creativity, by revisiting Great Expectations trans-artistically, through an odd combination of the pictorial, the musical, the cinematographic and the theatrical. …”
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Texts by Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz in the context of the late medieval ars poetriae by Bartosz Awianowicz

“…In his work, Eberhard of Bremen offers a clear categorization of poetry into poesis metrica based on Classical poetic metres, poesis rithmica or rigmica based on rhyme and rhythm, and a less restricted form of sacred music, known as prosa. Among Petrus Wilhelmi’s 22 compositions (with an acrostic of his name) published by Jaromír Černy, and a dozen or so others identified during the last two decades only two – the composition Presulis eminenciam (I/1), which opens Černý’s edition, and canon (rotulum) Pneuma erumpnosi telluris rei – can be classified as rhythmicized prose from the perspective of the medieval ars poetriae. …”
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Dancing to improve balance control, cognitive-motor functions and quality of life after stroke: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Emmanuel Morice, Julien Moncharmont, Clémentine Jenny, Anne-Violette Bruyneel

“…Introduction Dance is an intrinsically motivating activity that includes social interaction, stimulation through music, the pleasure of moving despite pathology-induced motor limitations, and it also has good perceived benefits among participants. …”
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Spirituality of HIV-infected female patients treated in a secondary care hospital in Thailand: a preliminary investigation by Natawan Khumsaen, Panarat Chenchob, Supannee Peawnalaw

“…The most frequently used spiritual practices were family activities, listening to music, and visiting a temple or quiet place. The overall spiritual well-being was at a moderate level (mean, 87.65; SD, 22.09). …”
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Evaluating causes and gestures: source-related and crossmodal features in the perception of environmental sounds by Sven-Amin Lembke

“…Communication through auditory cues often evokes associations to other sensory modalities. In film music, for instance, a descending pitch contour commonly resembles a falling motion. …”
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The Influence of Marketing Mix and Cafe Atmosphere on Customer Loyalty Through Customer Satisfaction As a Mediation Variable by M. Risal, Achmad Efendi, Adi Firmanzah

“…Similarly, the café atmosphere, characterized by pleasant lighting, comfortable seating, and enjoyable background music, enhances customer satisfaction. Both the marketing mix and café atmosphere contribute to customer loyalty, as consumers are willing to return and recommend these establishments when they feel satisfied. …”
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Computationally-efficient rendering of diffuse reflections for geometrical acoustics based room simulation by Ewert Stephan D., Gößling Nico, Buttler Oliver, van de Par Steven, Hu Hongmei

“…The proposed method was perceptually evaluated with both music and pulse stimuli against dummy head recordings of real rooms. …”
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Characterization of single reed mouthpiece interaction in quasi-static regime by Gazengel Bruno, Dalmont Jean-Pierre, Gaillard Amélie, Brasseur Emmanuel, Taillard Pierre-André

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Hierarchische und dynamische Einheit. Kontext-Eigenschaften und ›metrische Pfade‹ als Kategorien der Syntaxanalyse bei Mozart by Michael Polth

“…In turn, this tracking of the musical process is structured by what is referred to in this text as ‘metric trajectory’.…”
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Early Treatment with Intranasal Neostigmine Reduces Mortality in a Mouse Model of Naja naja (Indian Cobra) Envenomation by Matthew R. Lewin, Stephen P. Samuel, David S. Wexler, Philip Bickler, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, Brett D. Mensh

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