Identités sonores réelles et fantasmées dans l’Antiquité : à chacun sa percussion ? by Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

“…Rattlesnakes, roptres, bells, drums and many others are thus associated with different worship practices, even specifically with certain deities. …”
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Snow controls to reduce snow drifts at Syowa Station by Kenji Ishizawa

“…Wind passages under highfloored buildings were maintained by cutting openings through snow drifts that developed on the leeward side of the buildings. Empty drums were useful as wind ducts to prevent snow drifts from accumulating in front of doors of small huts. …”
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Sound artefacts as containers. The materiality of rhythm in ancient Mesoamerica by Valeria Bellomia

“…Two categories of Aztec percussion instruments (huehuetl and teponaztli) will be analyzed, trying to get closer to the emic point of view, the indigenous concept of drums as containers of non-human entities. This will offer a better understanding of their role within the ceremonial context. …”
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FEM-BEM Vibroacoustic Simulations of Motion Driven Cymbal-Drumstick Interactions by Evaggelos Kaselouris, Stella Paschalidou, Chrisoula Alexandraki, Vasilis Dimitriou

“…The velocity values of the moving drumstick in various drumming conditions are monitored, recorded, and analysed to provide input data into the time domain simulations. …”
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Gamma—Ray Counters to Monitor Radioactive Waste Packages in the MICADO Project by Luigi Cosentino, Martina Giuffrida, Sergio Lo Meo, Fabio Longhitano, Alfio Pappalardo, Giuseppe Passaro, Paolo Finocchiaro

“…One of the goals of the MICADO Euratom project is to monitor the gamma-rays emitted by radioactive waste drums in storage sites on a medium to long term basis. …”
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Coming to See Action as Symbol: the Computer as Collaborator by Bamberger, Jeanne

“…I trace Laf’s work as an example of a response to the question I had put to myself: Could the computer be a collaborator in helping children effectively make moves between their own body actions in clapping and the necessary numerical–symbolic instructions to make the computer drums play what they had clapped?…”
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Coming to See Action as Symbol: the Computer as Collaborator by Bamberger, Jeanne

“…I trace Laf’s work as an example of a response to the question I had put to myself: Could the computer be a collaborator in helping children effectively make moves between their own body actions in clapping and the necessary numerical–symbolic instructions to make the computer drums play what they had clapped?…”
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A study on warehouse management system at northport container terminal in port Klang / Nor Fadzilah Mohd Taib by Mohd Taib, Nor Fadzilah

“…The old one is used to store big, unfragile or inexpensive goods such as timber, drums and chemical goods. The new warehouse is used to store small items, fragile or…”
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Mathematical models of the carding process by Lee, M

“…Two machine topologies are studied in detail, thin annular regions with hooked surfaces and the nip region between two rotating drums. The theoretical simulations suggest that fibres do not transfer between carding surfaces in annular machine geometries. …”

Performance of Music Elevates Pain Threshold and Positive Affect: Implications for the Evolutionary Function of Music by R.I.M. Dunbar, Kostas Kaskatis, Ian MacDonald, Vinnie Barra

“…We show that singing, dancing and drumming all trigger endorphin release (indexed by an increase in post-activity pain tolerance) in contexts where merely listening to music and low energy musical activities do not. …”
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Holyoake's Drumbeat Program: Music as a Tool for Social Learning and Improved Educational Outcomes by Simon Faulkner, Penny Ivery, Lisa Wood, Robert Donovan

“…The program DRUMBEAT uses hand drumming to engage young people in social learning that assists them in integrating more fully into mainstream school and community life. …”
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The Yorùbá Royal Bards by Akintunde Akinyemi

“…The bards sing and chant in honour of the kings, and they also announce the advent of important guests by drumming or piping the names and attributes of such guests as they enter the royal palace. …”
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RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF THE SHEARER’S TORQUE SHAFT by ZHAO LiJuan, LI MingHao, ZHANG PinHao

“…Shearer’s flexible virtual prototype coupling model of torque shaft,rocker arm shell,planet shafts and carrier was established,combined with the actual working condition,pro-and post drums ’ load files were obtained. Based on the " shearer’s load simulation program ",shear stress and strain contours of the torque shaft were obtained by ADAMS. …”
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Generative models for speech emotion synthesis by Raj, Nathanael S.

“…It produced natural sounding audio, including speech, bird chirpings and drums. In this project, we applied WaveGAN to emotional speech data from The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS), using all 8 categories of emotion. …”
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Performance of music elevates pain threshold and positive affect: implications for the evolutionary function of music. by Dunbar, R, Kaskatis, K, MacDonald, I, Barra, V

“…We show that singing, dancing and drumming all trigger endorphin release (indexed by an increase in post-activity pain tolerance) in contexts where merely listening to music and low energy musical activities do not. …”

Bamboo as an eco-friendly material for use in aquaculture industry in Malaysia by Razak Wahab, Othman Sulaiman, Hashim W.Samsi, Mohd Shafiq Aminuddin, Izyan Khalid

“…Currently, the cost of constructing the basic structure of a floating cage using plastic drums or other foreign materials which is considered as a non-environmental friendly is rather expensive. …”
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Analysis of the proportions of pollutions in cotton by weight and number by Parpiev Azimjon, Shorahmedova Mamura, Saidbekova Saida

“…The possibility of separating fine pollutions in the cotton from the pile drums used in ginning plants was studied, and it was found that they can extract up to 93% of the total fine pollutions. …”
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An Experimental Test Bench for Cable-Driven Transmission by Giovanni Torres Charry, Juan Bernardo Gómez Mendoza

“…The system consists mainly of a brushless direct current (DC) motor, two load cells to measure the mechanical reactive force in the motor, two dismountable pulleys, two drums, a perforated disk, and several masses that provide the load and the inertial load, and electronic modules to control the speed and position of the pulley. …”
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EKSPLORASI ETNOMATEMATIKA BUDAYA MASYARAKAT INSANA BARAT by Justin Eduardo Simarmata, Stanislaus Amsikan, Elizio Victor De Araujo

“…The results obtained are mathematical concepts in the Sotis weaving motif, namely the concept of a square, triangle and rhombus, in Lopo there are concepts of cones, circles and tubes, on musical instruments (gongs and drums) there are concepts of circles and tubes, and on cropping patterns (corn ) there are concepts of quadrangle, circles and straight lines on woven fabrics, lopo, musical instruments and plant patterns there are cultural values, namely discipline and social values.…”
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PERIODICALLY REPEATING SOUND AS A DISRUPTIVE AGENT IN BUILDINGS by Jaroslav Hejl

“…Clearly audible impulses in sound records are meant by the definition beats in this article – for example drums in the recording. The point of interest is mainly low efficiency of sound insulation against low frequency sound as music with significant beats. …”
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