Scanning and transmission electron microscopy examinations of composite hybrid chromate and chromate phosphate conversion coatings exposed in hot 100% relative humidity environments by Peter P. Ikubanni, Makanjuola Oki, Adesoji A. Adediran, Sarah A. Akintola, Adekunle A. Adeleke

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Meeting in the Middle: Sociophonetic Convergence of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s Coda /s/ in Their Artistic Performance Speech by Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes

“…The artistic performance of identity by top Latin music artists can be heard on many Top-40 US radio stations, since, as of July 2023, 20% of the Billboard Hot 100 is (Spanish language) Latin music. This study aims to determine the variants found in the pronunciation of coda /s/, a robust phonetic differentiator of regional and social dialects, in the top songs versus in the spontaneous speech of the two top Latin music artists in the global market. …”
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Content analysis of tobacco imagery in popular music Videos, 2018–2021 by Jessica M. Rath, Brenda Dimaya, Katie M. O'Connor, Jennifer M. Kreslake, Donna M. Vallone, Elizabeth C. Hair

“…The weekly top 10 songs of 2018–2021 were identified using Billboard Charts categories (Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop, Country, Rock & Alternative, Dance/Electronic, Pop Airplay). …”
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Themes of Lust and Love in Popular Music Lyrics From 1971 to 2011 by Yasaman Madanikia, Kim Bartholomew

“…The study sample consisted of the top 40 songs of Billboard Year End Hot 100 single songs for every 5 years from 1971 to 2011 ( N = 360). …”
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Novelty and cultural evolution in modern popular music by Katherine O’Toole, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát

“…Using Music Information Retrieval (MIR) data and lyrics from Billboard Hot 100 songs between 1974-2013, we calculate a novelty score for each song’s aural attributes and lyrics. …”
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Melodic Differences Between Styles: Modeling Music With Step Inertia by Matt Chiu, David Temperley

“…Surprisingly, modern Western popular music does not reflect step inertia. In Billboard’s Hot 100, and Rolling Stone magazine's list of “greatest songs,” inertial (same-direction) steps are less likely than non-inertial ones. …”
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Essen as a Corpus of Early Musical Experience by Niels J. Verosky

“…Overall, profiles of scale-degree behavior from the children’s song corpus match profiles from Essen more closely than do profiles from another corpus of music widely familiar to contemporary listeners (Billboard Hot 100 songs) and similarly closely as a corpus of nineteenth-century common-practice German vocal music (Schubert songs). …”
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A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop by Anthony Kwame Harrison

“…The group never cracked the US market – their highest Billboard Hot 100 song being the 1986 single, “Can’t Wait Another Minute ” (peaking at Number 41) – and remain virtually unknown to most American music fans. …”
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دراسة تأثير التخزين والتحضير المنزلي لحليب الرضع على محتواه من حمض الأسكوربيك by ايات عبود, ديمة الدياب, لين عضيمة

“…In comparison to vitamin C concentrations in milk dissolved in tap water, its levels decreased when water was warm (40°C) or hot (100°C), and its concentrations further declined in dissolved form kept for two hours after preparation.…”
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دراسة تأثير التخزين والتحضير المنزلي لحليب الرضع على محتواه من حمض الأسكوربيك by ايات عبود, ديمة الدياب, لين عضيمة

“…In comparison to vitamin C concentrations in milk dissolved in tap water, its levels decreased when water was warm (40°C) or hot (100°C), and its concentrations further declined in dissolved form kept for two hours after preparation.…”
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Electrochemical response of MgO/Co3O4 oxide layers produced by plasma electrolytic oxidation and post treatment using cobalt nitrate by Mosab Kaseem, Tehseen Zehra, Tassawar Hussain, Young Gun Ko, Arash Fattah-alhosseini

“…Here, the inorganic layers produced by PEO in an alkaline-phosphate electrolyte were subsequently immersed for different periods in cold (60 °C) and hot (100 °C) aqueous solutions containing either 1 or 3 gr of cobalt nitrate hexahydrate in the presence of hydrogen peroxide as an initiator. …”
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Inter-subject correlations of EEG reflect subjective arousal and acoustic features of music by Fuyu Ueno, Fuyu Ueno, Sotaro Shimada

“…Therefore, here, we aimed to investigate whether the ISCs of electroencephalography (EEG) during music listening represent a preference for music reflecting engagement or interest of a large population in music.MethodsFirst, we selected 21 pieces of music from the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart of 2017, which served as an indicator of preference reflecting the engagement and interest of a large population. …”
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