Dichotic listening (DL) procedures are commonly employed in the evaluation of auditory processing in children. Review of the various clinical tests reveals considerable diversity in both the signals employed and their mode of administration. The extent to which other non auditory-specific factors influence the test outcome is often difficult to determine. Individual differences in memory, atten...

This is an acoustic study of prosodic effects on segmental durations with reference to syllable structure, stress, focus and tempo in Greek. Disyllabic nonsense words with one, or two, or three consonants in the initial syllable were examined in stressed/unstressed, focused/unfocused and normal/fast tempo productions in a carrier sentence contexts. The results indicate that: (1) syllabic onset ...

( )IR EXPERIMENTS were designed to determine the effects of focused and unfocused laser radiation upon the heads of animals. This report is the result of our first set of experiments. While preparing these experiments, Drs. Sam Fine and Edmund Klein told us of their unreported experiments in which they produced subarachnoid hemorrhage and death in mice within a few minutes by directing an unfoc...

In this paper, a new generalized maximum integration angle for ISAR imaging system before uncorrected rotation produces defocusing in cross-range is presented which is in terms of allowable two-way phase deviation. It is assumed that the radar is in the far field of the target so that no significant range deviation exists over the target’s cross-range extent. What remains is the range deviation...

( )IR EXPERIMENTS were designed to determine the effects of focused and unfocused laser radiation upon the heads of animals. This report is the result of our first set of experiments. While preparing these experiments, Drs. Sam Fine and Edmund Klein told us of their unreported experiments in which they produced subarachnoid hemorrhage and death in mice within a few minutes by directing an unfoc...

The spectral emphasis value and the effect of focus on it for bi-syllabic words are investigated in Mandarin in this paper. It is found that, the spectral emphasis value of the onset is larger than that of the rhyme. The spectral emphasis value of the onset of the first syllable is larger than that of the second under unfocused condition, due to intervocalic voicing. The emphasis degree of the ...

This paper takes an empirical approach to evaluating three model-based reinforcementlearning methods. All methods intend to speed the learning process by mixing exploitation of learned knowledge with exploration of possibly promising alternatives. We consider -greedy exploration, which is computationally cheap and popular, but unfocused in its exploration effort; R-Max exploration, a simplifica...