With the availability of vast collection of research articles on internet, textual analysis is an increasingly important technique in scientometric analysis. While the context in which it is used and the specific algorithms implemented may vary, typically any textual analysis exercise involves intensive pre-processing of input text which includes removing topically uninteresting terms (stop wor...

Novel tetrachiral honeycomb structures are evaluated for the first time from the vibroacoustic point of view. A numerical method based on Bloch wave approximations for Finite Element models of the unit cells is applied to simulate the pass-stop band characteristics of these cellular solids. Experimental modal analysis and modal densities are measured on honeycomb panels and sandwich plate, and ...

In bootstrapping (seed set expansion), selecting good seeds and creating stop lists are two effective ways to reduce semantic drift, but these methods generally need human supervision. In this paper, we propose a graphbased approach to helping editors choose effective seeds and stop list instances, applicable to Pantel and Pennacchiotti’s Espresso bootstrapping algorithm. The idea is to select ...

This paper presents a new method of analyzing and quantifying glottalization patterns in speech sounds, demonstrated through an analysis of glottalized stops in Standard German. Acoustic studies have shown that instances of stop glottalization, in which the glottis is assumed to be constricted, can have a range of acoustic correlates, including glottal stops and stretches of irregularity in fun...

The voice onset time (VOT) of a stop consonant is the interval between its burst onset and voicing onset. Among a variety of research topics on VOT, one that has been studied for years is how VOTs are efficiently measured. Manual annotation is a feasible way, but it becomes a time-consuming task when the corpus size is large. This paper proposes an automatic VOT estimation method based on an on...

We developed a novel single-step capillary electrophoresis (SSCE) scheme for field-amplified sample stacking (FASS) by using a hydrophilic material polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microchannel chip. The capillary effect was used to introduce liquids and control capillary stop valves in a partial barrier structure of the microchannel. Through the combined action of stop valves and air vents, both...