It is commonly observed that native French speakers tend to drop nonnative /h/-like phonemes, or to insert them where unexpected, in the “/h/ languages” they learn (e.g. English). The perception of the Japanese /h/ by French listeners was tested by way of an AXB discrimination task on non-words and a word identification task on Japanese minimal pairs. For naïve listeners not learning Japanese (...

The Lauricella functions, which are generalizations of the Gauss hypergeometric function 2F1, arise naturally in many areas of mathematics and statistics. So far as we are aware, there is little or nothing in the literature on how to calculate numerical approximations for these functions outside those cases in which a simple one-dimensional integral representation or a one-dimensional series re...

In this paper, we obtain coupled coincidence and coupled fixed points of mappings satisfying a non linear contractive condition in partially ordered partial metric spaces. Our results generalize the theorems of H.Aydi [4] and W. Shatanawi et.al. [20]. We also provide an example to support our results. AMS (MOS) Subject Classification Codes: 54H25, 47H10

This paper deals with efficient ratio type estimators for estimating finite population mean under simple random sampling scheme by using the knowledge of known median of a study and an auxiliary variable. Expressions for the bias and mean squared error of the proposed ratio type estimators are derived up to first order of approximation. It is found that our proposed estimators perform better as...