The visual abstraction procedure used in previous studies of declination was tested using 12 subjects who each fit the F0 contours of 19 spoken short simple sentences with baselines. These baselines were found to be poorly replicated the fitters. An objective all-points least-squares best-fit procedure was tested on this corpus and on a set of sentences that had been produced in both spontaneou...

As South Connaught Irish typically uses the same (falling) tune type in both questions and declaratives, this paper examines whether sentence mode might be differentiated in this dialect by other aspects of the contour realization, namely declination slope, peak height and pitch level. A set of matched declaratives (DEC), whquestions (WHQ) and yes/no questions (YNQ) of two phrase lengths (with ...

We have searched for correlations between the pointing directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the data of the High Resolution Fly’s Eye (HiRes) collaboration, and local large scale structure. The HiRes stereo data set (the same used to search for AGN correlations [1]) was used in the search, and the 2 Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS) was used to determine the density of galaxies in ...

Project GRAND is an array of proportional wire chambers composed of 64 stations with each station containing eight proportional wire planes and a 50 mm steel plate. The proportional wire planes together with the steel absorber allow a measurement of the angle and identity of single muon tracks. Of the two data-taking triggers, one is for single tracks. Since the rate of single muon tracks at se...

The mean absolute brightness temperature of the diffuse radio background was measured as a function of frequency in a continuous band between 100 and 200 MHz over an effective solid angle of ∼ π str at high Galactic latitude. A spectral brightness temperature index of β = 2.5 ± 0.1 (αS = 0.5) was derived from the observations, where the error limits are 3σ and include estimates of the instrumen...

Abstract Magneto-optical responses and the potential for tunability when changing variables of a one-dimensional defected magnetized plasma photonic crystal have been studied using transfer matrix method operation in mm-range wavelength region. The effect number dielectric defect layer thickness as well intensity declination angle magnetic field on transmittance, Faraday rotation, its elliptici...

Despite a large number of studies that have considered footstrike pattern, relatively little is known about how runners alter their footstrike pattern with running velocity. The purpose of this study was to determine how footstrike pattern, defined by footstrike angle (FSA), is affected by running velocity in recreational athletes. One hundred and two recreational athletes ran on a treadmill at...

Laryngeal aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of African American voice production were examined from vowel samples produced by ten adult female and ten adult male speakers. The data were compared with that for a control group consisting of ten adult female and ten adult male White speakers, matched for age, height, and weight. All measures were analyzed using Cspeech 4.0. Aerodynamic meas...

FO contours tend to decline over the course of a major intonation phrase’ (MaIP). These FO downtrends form an envelope decomposed of a baseline and a top-line ( Pierrhumbert 1980, Maeda 1976,Cohen and t’Hart 1967). The baseline declination is a non -uniform function. That is, the slope of its angle is greater at the lower level constituents boundaries of the prosodic structure, e.g. at the edge...