The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production

The main forms and methods of distribution of music publications in Galicia in the XIX — early XX centuries are scrutinized. The demand for the relevant music production is one of the determining factors in the formation of the musical publishing repertoire, its structure and special features in the process of the existence of music publications in society. It is noted that export-import trade in books has become especially widespread in Galicia; there are facts about the links between publishers and booksellers in Lviv and Warsaw. The basic types of presentation of book advertising of music products, its regional peculiarities, and ways of its placement are considered. Special emphasis is placed on the role of specialized press in the advertising of music products, typical examples of press advertising. The registration bibliographic information as the initial form of music bibliography and the forms of its compilation are distinguished. The emphasis is placed on the importance of thorough critical articles as a separate typological group of bibliographic publications under the conditions of formation of the Ukrainian bibliography, in which the main importance is given to the disclosure of the content and evaluation of the reviewed work. The combination of article genres and reviews on examples of separate publications by Stanislav Lyudkevych and Ivan Franko is traced. Special book-selling and book-publishing catalogs are characterized. While executing the marketing and advertising function, these directories were addressed primarily to foreign consumers and distributors (the so-called commissioners).One way to distribute music is to subscribe through libraries. A significant financial factor in the distribution of any printed matter was the price that depended primarily on the cost of each process associated with its publication. Keywords: music publications, bookstore, book-trading enterprise, advertising of publications, pricing.

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Leisure-Time Music Activities from the Perspective of Musical Agency

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.11 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sidsel Karlsen

Keyword(s):

Music Education ◽

Leisure Time ◽

Learning Trajectories ◽

Binary Opposition ◽

Sociology Of Music ◽

Music Production ◽

Music Consumption ◽

Musical Taste ◽

Specific Concept ◽

Music Activities

This chapter aims to understand the phenomenon of leisure-time music activities from the perspective of musical agency. It explores how individuals’ and groups’ recreational practices involving music can be seen as a means for expanding their capacities for acting in the lived-in world. The exploration proceeds through theoretical and experiential accounts. It first draws on literature from general sociology, music sociology, and the sociology of music education in order to elaborate on the broader notion of agency, as well as the more field-specific concept of musical agency. It then explores various music-related agency modes through narrating the author’s own experiences of participating in, leading, and observing leisure-time music activities. The chapter aims to dissolve the binary opposition between recreational music production and music consumption. It argues that the two poles instead can be understood as inseparably intertwined venues for the constitution of agency, musical taste and music-related learning trajectories.

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P3352Telemedicine transcends national boundaries in quest of creating a behemoth ami program

European Heart Journal ◽

10.1093/eurheartj/ehz745.0228 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (Supplement_1) ◽

Author(s):

S Mehta ◽

R Botelho ◽

F Fernandez ◽

F Feres ◽

A Abizaid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Community Health Centers ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Population Based ◽

Primary Pci ◽

Small Community ◽

Hub And Spoke ◽

Web Based ◽

National Boundaries ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Time Of Presentation

Abstract Background The Latin America Telemedicine Infarct Network (LATIN) has exploited the remarkable competence of telemedicine for remote guidance. In doing so, LATIN created a mammoth population-based AMI network that employed experts located several hundred miles away to guide the reperfusion strategies for almost 800,000 screened patients. In this pioneering project, telemedicine was initially utilized to guide AMI management within national confines. We speculated whether LATIN telemedicine navigation could outstrip countrywide borders. Purpose To maximally harness the vast possibilities of telemedicine for improving AMI care. Methods During its pilot phase, LATIN began as a hub and spoke, AMI system in Colombia where 20 spokes (small community health centers and rural clinics) were configured with 3 hubs that could perform Primary PCI. These sites were linked through web-based connectivity. Expert cardiologists, located 50–250 miles away in Bogota, Colombia, used sophisticated telemedicine platforms for urgent EKG diagnosis and teleconsultation of the entire AMI process. Based upon the duration of chest pain and travel time to the hub, these experts guided patients through guideline-based strategies of thrombolysis, pharmaco invasive management or primary PCI. Efficiency of the telemedicine process was measured with the new metric of time to telemedicine diagnosis (TTD). Cloud computing, GPS navigation, and numerous business intelligent tools were gradually incorporated into LATIN telemedicine. As systems became more scalable, the program was expanded to Brazil, where LATIN flourished. Over the last 18 months, LATIN telemedicine capabilities have been pressed across national boundaries. Presently, all 82 LATIN centers in Mexico are guided by experts located in Bogota, Colombia and the 7 Argentina centers channeled through Santiago, Chile. Results 784,947 patients were screened for AMI at 350 LATIN centers (Brazil 143, Colombia 118, Mexico 82, Argentina 7). Navigation pathways are depicted in the attached figure. TTD remains extremely low in all four countries, and comparable efficiency and tele-accuracy have been achieved. With expanded geographic reach, 8,448 (1.08%) patients were diagnosed with STEMI and 3,911 (46.3%) urgently reperfused, including 3,049 (78%) with Primary PCI. Time to TTD ranged between 2.8 to 5.8 minutes, with a mean of 3.5 min. Tele-accuracy was 98.5%, D2B 51 min, and in-hospital mortality 5.2%. Various other comparative metrics for the 4 countries are being gathered and will be available at the time of presentation. Conclusions LATIN demonstrates the robust ability of telemedicine to transcend national boundaries to guide AMI management. This strategy can be adopted in under-developed countries in Asia and Africa to provide an umbrella of AMI care for the millions of disadvantaged patients.

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Intelligent tools for creative graphics

ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Courses ◽

10.1145/3388769.3407498 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ariel Shamir ◽

Niloy J. Mitra ◽

Nobuyuki Umetani ◽

Yuki Koyama

Keyword(s):

Intelligent Tools

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A Personalized Machine-Learning-Enabled Method for Efficient Research in Ethnopharmacology. The Case of the Southern Balkans and the Coastal Zone of Asia Minor

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11135826 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 5826

Author(s):

Evangelos Axiotis ◽

Andreas Kontogiannis ◽

Eleftherios Kalpoutzakis ◽

George Giannakopoulos

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Coastal Zone ◽

Extraction Process ◽

Asia Minor ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Southern Balkans

Ethnopharmacology experts face several challenges when identifying and retrieving documents and resources related to their scientific focus. The volume of sources that need to be monitored, the variety of formats utilized, and the different quality of language use across sources present some of what we call “big data” challenges in the analysis of this data. This study aims to understand if and how experts can be supported effectively through intelligent tools in the task of ethnopharmacological literature research. To this end, we utilize a real case study of ethnopharmacology research aimed at the southern Balkans and the coastal zone of Asia Minor. Thus, we propose a methodology for more efficient research in ethnopharmacology. Our work follows an “expert–apprentice” paradigm in an automatic URL extraction process, through crawling, where the apprentice is a machine learning (ML) algorithm, utilizing a combination of active learning (AL) and reinforcement learning (RL), and the expert is the human researcher. ML-powered research improved the effectiveness and efficiency of the domain expert by 3.1 and 5.14 times, respectively, fetching a total number of 420 relevant ethnopharmacological documents in only 7 h versus an estimated 36 h of human-expert effort. Therefore, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the researcher can boost the efficiency and effectiveness of the identification and retrieval of appropriate documents.

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Developing 21st-Century Musicianship: Tablet-based Music Production in the General Music Classroom

General Music Today ◽

10.1177/10483713211034434 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104837132110344

Author(s):

Jason Fick ◽

Chris Bulgren

Keyword(s):

Music Education ◽

Learning Environments ◽

21St Century ◽

Contemporary Music ◽

Music Instruction ◽

Technology Skills ◽

General Music ◽

Music Classroom ◽

Music Production ◽

Essential Skills

Increased availability of tablets at home and in classrooms provides educators access to a powerful tool for music instruction. Music production lessons on tablets offer alternate approaches to developing music literacies while teaching valuable technology skills. These activities are ideal for general music education because they align with contemporary music practices and are adaptable to a variety of learning environments (in person, remote, and hybrid). This article will present a model for tablet-based music production instruction in the general music classroom that aligns with the National Core Arts Standards and accompanying process components grounded in five essential skills: sequencing, recording, editing, effects processing, and mixing.

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Creating Virtual Ensembles: Common Approaches from Research and Practice

Music Educators Journal ◽

10.1177/0027432121995147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 107 (3) ◽

pp. 38-46

Author(s):

Christopher Cayari

Keyword(s):

Music Education ◽

Music Teachers ◽

Music Educators ◽

The Internet ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Music Production ◽

Music Making ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Online Music ◽

Education Courses

A virtual ensemble is a digital musical product that uses multiple recordings edited together to form a musical ensemble. Creating virtual ensembles can be a way for music educators to engage students through online music-making. This article presents eight steps for creating virtual ensembles in music education courses and classrooms. The steps are (1) identifying objectives and desired outcomes, (2) selecting repertoire, (3) developing learning resources, (4) creating an anchor for synchronizing, (5) choosing a recording method, (6) setting up a collection platform, (7) editing in postproduction, and (8) distributing the product. As online music production becomes more prevalent, projects like virtual ensembles can provide creative and exciting experiences for music teachers and students, whether produced in the classroom or through remote means on the Internet.

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Improving Learner-Computer Interaction through Intelligent Learning Material Delivery Using Instructional Design Modeling

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23060668 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 668

Author(s):

Christos Troussas ◽

Akrivi Krouska ◽

Cleo Sgouropoulou

Keyword(s):

Instructional Design ◽

Adaptive Learning ◽

Educational Software ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Learning Material ◽

Java Programming ◽

Undergraduate University Students ◽

Intelligent Tools ◽

Content Based Filtering ◽

Computer Interaction

This paper describes an innovative and sophisticated approach for improving learner-computer interaction in the tutoring of Java programming through the delivery of adequate learning material to learners. To achieve this, an instructional theory and intelligent techniques are combined, namely the Component Display Theory along with content-based filtering and multiple-criteria decision analysis, with the intention of providing personalized learning material and thus, improving student interaction. Until now, the majority of the research efforts mainly focus on adapting the presentation of learning material based on students’ characteristics. As such, there is free space for researching issues like delivering the appropriate type of learning material, in order to maintain the pedagogical affordance of the educational software. The blending of instructional design theories and sophisticated techniques can offer a more personalized and adaptive learning experience to learners of computer programming. The paper presents a fully operating intelligent educational software. It merges pedagogical and technological approaches for sophisticated learning material delivery to students. Moreover, it was used by undergraduate university students to learn Java programming for a semester during the COVID-19 lockdown. The findings of the evaluation showed that the presented way for delivering the Java learning material surpassed other approaches incorporating merely instructional models or intelligent tools, in terms of satisfaction and knowledge acquisition.

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