[1] Wave breaking across the surf zone elevates the mean water level at the shoreline (setup), and drives fluctuations about the mean (runup). Runup often is divided into seaswell (0.04–0.3 Hz) and lower frequency infragravity (0.00– 0.04 Hz) components. With energetic incident waves, runup is dominated by infragravity frequencies, and total water levels (combined setup and runup) can exceed 3 ...

The effect of increasing inter-channel crosstalk in multichannel reproduction is investigated with auditory model simulations. A standard auditory model is used to estimate the perceptions of listeners in multichannel listening with crosstalk. ITD and ILD cue values are computed for three different loudspeaker setups. The crosstalk is varied between -14 dB and -38 dB. The results show that when...

SEVERAL investigators (Riviere, 1929; Kramer and St. Paul, 1950; Matthews, 1951; Hitchcock, 1952; Riper and Kalmbach, 1952; Pratt and Thouless, 1955; Michener and Walcott, 1966, 1967) have all reported that when pigeons trained to fly in a single direction were released from points off the training line, the birds continued to fly in the training direction. Wallraff (1959) and Graue (1965) both...

E. coli does chemotaxis by performing a biased random walk composed of alternating periods of swimming (runs) and reorientations (tumbles). Tumbles are typically modelled as complete directional randomisations but it is known that in wild type E. coli, successive run directions are actually weakly correlated, with a mean directional difference of approximately 63 degrees. We recently presented ...

The issue of pressure sensitivity of anisotropic sheet metals is investigated with introducing two new non-AFR criteria which are called here linear and non-Linear pressure sensitive criteria. The yield and plastic potential functions of these criteria are calibrated with directional tensile/compressive yield stresses and directional tensile Lankford coefficients, respectively. To determine unk...

  Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

It has been clarified that deformation and annealing of martensite starting structure can produce ultrafine-grained structure in low carbon steel.  This study aims to investigate the texture evolution and mechanical properties of samples with martensite structure deformed by two different forging processes. The martensitic steel samples were forged by plane strain compression and multi-directio...

Body sway test which examines the vestibulo-spinal reflex is sensitive for evaluating vestibular dysfunction in patients with vertigo, dizziness or unsteadiness. Body sway is usually evaluated by measuring the length and area of traces on the force platform. However, it is not necessarily possible to evaluate abnormal body sway with these indicators because there is a discrepancy between sway l...

The bit-error-rate (BER) performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in mobile multihop relaying (MMR) system is severely degraded by the effect of Doppler shift and the severity of this degradation increases with the number of hops traversed by the OFDM signal. In this study, the authors propose a method to mitigate the effect of Doppler shift in MMR system (such a...

This study investigates the intraday price and volatility spillover effect between the Japanese market and the Korean market, using a VAR-asymmetric BEKK GARCH model. In particular, the study considers three high-frequency (10-min, 30-min, and 1-hour) intraday datasets of TOPIX and KOSPI200 markets. The empirical results indicate a bi-directional price spillover effect in the 10-min intervals, ...