What does a Protein Sound Like? (Yes, Protein not Pre-Teen)

Music Librarian Catherine Small has found this fascinating article for you in one of our e-resources.  If you're a member of the RCS community, you can read this online - but might need to login if you're off-campus.

Lucy Goodchild van Hilten reports on a paper in the scientific journal, Heliyon. She reveals that science has met music in the most amazing way!  "Red" proteins are represented as being higher pitched than "turquoise" ones in these weird videoclips ... 




https://www.elsevier.com/connect/listening-to-proteins-by-turning-data-into-music?sf41773868=1

Listening to proteins by turning data into music www.elsevier.com Molecular melodies can reveal information about proteins in technique developed by composer and chemical biologist

Mental Health Awareness Week - free access to quality journal articles until 31 July 2014

Mental Health - Raising Awareness

Here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, our e-journals extend far beyond just music, drama, dance, film and TV, but today's offer by publisher Routledge nonetheless provides a generous offer of quality articles that we might not otherwise be able to access.

So, here's the deal (quoting from the emailed circular that we received today):-

"To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Routledge have compiled a free article collection on Anxiety."For one week each May, the Mental Health Foundation raises awareness of a specific theme for Mental Health Awareness Week. This year's theme is Anxiety, one of the leading causes of mental ill-health around the world.
Featuring over seventy leading articles from our Behavioral Science portfolio, this collection is hosted in one handy place and is completely free to access until July 31st 2014.
Click here to further your understanding of Anxiety."

 
Our RCS Counsellor shares some useful weblinks about mental health:-
 
The Mental Health Foundation is focusing on the theme of anxiety this week, as one of the leading causes of mental ill-health. Anxiety is defined as ‘an on-going sense of worry without a specific cause’.  Around 1 in 4 people in the UK experience a mental health problem such as anxiety each year and many of them will not seek help to get a diagnosis.

To help address this the Mental Health Foundation has produced a booklet which examines what anxiety is, the different types of anxiety, how it affects us and how to manage it if we feel that it is going beyond a healthy level and causing us distress.

 

• Anxiety Booklet

Other sources of help

 

• MIND website: http://www.mind.org.uk/ , which contains information and support both for helping yourself and helping someone else;
• Anxiety UK website: http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/ also has information about dealing with anxiety and stress.

Mindfulness in Improvisational theatre - article by Gordon Bermant

Improvisational Theatre (theater)

There is interest amongst performers and well-being practitioners, in 'Mindfulness' as a meditative practice.

A recent discussion on ResearchGate is throwing up some interesting ideas.  Today, we were given details of an article which might interest people working in improvisational theatre.  Here's the bibliographic reference and a link to it:-

Gordon Bermant

'Working with(out) a net: improvisational theater and enhanced well-being.'

 

Frontiers in psychology  2013 no.4, p.929 

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.009...

* To join in the conversation, why not sign up to ResearchGate yourself?

SoundEffects, a new open-source electronic journal from Aarhus

'Whittaker' was alerted to this new electronic journal by a blogpost from Bibliolore.

SoundEffects was launched by Aarhus University in 2011. It is interdisciplinary, open-source and peer-reviewed.  It appears to be something you just sign up to, for free.  Very much worth a look! 

http://www.soundeffects.dk/index

 

Somewhere to write? Journal for Artistic Research

JAR

Journal for Artistic Research

http://www.jar-online.net/

This is a journal brought to my attention by Anna Birch, Research Lecturer here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

• Online
• Open Access
• Sign up to JAR (free), to find out more.
• Considering submission?  Sign up first, to access the submissions pages.

Scoop It - a new online journal for researchers, by The Thesis Whisperer

Scoop It - online journal for researchers, by The Thesis Whisperer

 

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