Sleep deficiency and disorders are one of the most unsolved public health challenges of modern times. Music therapy is a promising approach, offering a cheap and non-invasive solution to improve sleep quality. However, the choice of therapeutic sleep music is highly limited for users because such music needs to be specially chosen and made by sleep therapists. It could potentially lead to the inefficiency of music therapy if users get bored after listening to the same set of music repeatedly. In this paper, we take the first step towards generating personalized sleep therapy music. Firstly, through an in-depth feature analysis, we investigate the importance of various musical and acoustic features of therapy music. Grounded on our findings, we design a style transfer framework called SleepGAN which induces therapeutic features into music from different genres. We show that, compared to baselines, the music generated by SleepGAN has a higher similarity to the sleep music designed by experts.

SleepGAN: Towards Personalized Sleep Therapy Music

This study focused on the Airtel’s Always On slogan to elucidate alternating choices constructed to build strong relationships with subscribers. The proceeding semiotic paradigms were strategic discourses communicated to dominate some facets of human endeavors serving, perhaps, as signals to operational capacities of Airtel®. Halliday’s concepts of the Paradigmatic Order and Circumstantial facilities of the Transitivity system were applied to seven ads of the Always On to assist in deriving both structural and semantic values from the switching linguistic elements. Tables and a graph provided supports for the analysis as indicators of the recurring components of the analyzed structural choices. The study showed that Always On is synonymous with Airtel in terms of operational consistency. It revealed further that creativity was not limited to the phrases proceeding Always On but that the choice inventions were extended to background images playing supportive roles in the persuasion. The Circumstantial functioned as cause, manner and role with reliable service provisions. The switches provided recipients avenues to generate diverse meaning potential that could naturally stimulate individuals to consumption. The study concluded that the alternating devices did not only fascinate persuasion but also demonstrated systemic creativity of enlightenment.

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Analyzing Advertising Specimen within the Scope of Circumstantial Choices: A Case Study of Airtel® Advertisements

Background: Several studies on the effects of music on sleep disorders have demonstrated that music listening can improve sleep quality in patients with sleep disorders. To our knowledge, nevertheless, none of them have elucidated the characteristics of such music itself.Objective: The purpose of the present study was to elucidate the characteristics of the types of music that improve sleep quality.Methods: In twenty five tracks used in the previous study, we calculated four analysis indicators: scaling exponent of the spectrum of melody's zero-crossings, redundancy of note values, density of notes and tempo.Results: The characteristics of music to improve sleep quality were slow tempo, small change of rhythm, and moderate pitch variation of melody. Based on the results derived from cluster analysis, the music pieces studied were largely categorized into 3 groups. A comparison of these 3 groups showed no significant differences with respect to the scaling exponent of the melody and the density of notes, whereas it showed significant differences with respect to the redundancy of note values and tempo.Conclusions: Our study revealed several characteristics of the types of music that improve sleep quality. The identification of these characteristics contributes to providing personalized music therapy to patients.

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Kenji Yamamoto

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Characteristics of music to improve the quality of sleep