Pronunciation variation is ubiquitous in the speech signal. Different models of lexical representation have been put forward to deal with speech variability, which differ in the level as well as the nature of mental representation. We present the first mismatch negativity (MMN) study investigating the effect of allophonic variation on the mental representation and neural processing of lexical t...

In Mandarin Chinese, the third tone (T3) is changed to the second tone (T2) or T2-like when followed by another T3 syllable in speech production. It has long been debated whether the production of a linguistic pattern like Mandarin T3 sandhi is operated via a computation mechanism or a lexical mechanism. The computation mechanism is that the sandhi/non-sandhi form of a tone is computed accordin...

Description: The objective of the tutorial is to survey recent algorithms and methodologies that have had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on the physical design industry. A second objective is to provide industrial feedback to the academic community in an effort to increase the relevance of academic research to industrial needs. Outline: Data Structures for VLSI, Partitioning, Floo...

The 2XXX Al alloys are characterized by their superior mechanical properties resulting from alloying elements and precipitation hardening treatments. AA2524-T3 alloy was developed to replace the AA2024-T3 in aerospace industry. However, both present many intermetallic particles (IMCs) microstructure, this is main reason for high susceptibility localized corrosion (such as pitting stress crackin...

BACKGROUND Tocotrienols (T3) and tocopherols (T), both members of the natural vitamin E family have unique biological functions in humans. T3 are detected in circulating human plasma and lipoproteins, although at concentrations significantly lower than α-tocopherol (α-T). T3, especially α-T3 is known to be neuropotective at nanomolar concentrations and this study evaluated the postprandial fate...

L-Triiodothyronine (T3) stimulates DNA synthesis and replication of cultured GC cells, a T3-responsive growth hormone (GH)-secreting cell line. To determine whether T3 stimulates secretion of an autocrine growth factor, we compared the growth-promoting activity of medium conditioned by T3-stimulated and T3-depleted cells to that of unconditioned medium. Addition of polyclonal rabbit anti-T3 ser...

In order to investigate the effect of 3,5,3'L-triiodothyronine (T3) administration on thyroid hormone concentrations in serum, thyroxine (T4), T3, 3,3',5'L-triiodothyronine (reverse T3, rT3) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) concentrations in serum were determined before and after T3 administration in 10 hypothyroid patients maintained on constant doses of T4. Ten hypothyroid patients given...