Cross-linguistic comparisons may shed light on the levels of processing involved in the performance of psycholinguistic tasks. For instance, if the same pat tern of results appears whether or not subjects unders tand the experimental materials, it may be concluded that the results do not reflect higher-level linguistic processing. In the present study, English and French listeners performed two...

Purpose: To predict the minimum value of additional material volume for an acceptable preform product. To predict an acceptable preform product without shape defect such as unfilling in a closed-die forging operation. Design/methodology/approach: In order to reduce the number of experiments, an orthogonal array from the Taguchi’s experimental method will be utilized to design the process parame...

Strain distribution of Al 1100 was numerically investigated during cyclic expansion extrusion (CEE) process using finite element method (FEM). Die angle, corner fillet radius and die chamber diameter were considered as die parameters and friction factor and number of passes as process parameters. The effects of these parameters were investigated on the effective strain and strain homogeneity in...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce and study new classes of soft closed sets like soft regular generalized b-closed sets in soft topological spaces (briefly soft rgb-closed set) Moreover, soft rg-closed, soft gpr-closed, soft gb-closed, soft gsp-closed, soft g$alpha$-closed, soft g$alpha$b-closed, and soft sgb-closed sets in soft topological spaces are introduced in this paper and w...

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This paper studied the deformation mechanisms of sheet metals stamped by rigid punches and deformable dies. Emphasis was placed on the development of elastic plastic zones in the sheet workpieces, on the functions of the die parameters and on their correlations with spring-back. It was found that the reduction of spring-back was due mainly to the interface interaction offered by the dies. The p...

In the game of Penney Ante two players take turns publicly selecting two distinct words of length n using letters from an alphabet Ω of size q. They roll a fair q sided die having sides labelled with the elements of Ω until the last n tosses agree with one player’s word, and that player is declared the winner. For n ≥ 3 the second player has a strategy which guarantees strictly better than even...

This paper reports on the measured dc characteristics of a SiC JFET device from room temperature up to 450◦C in order to evaluate the device’s capability for high-temperature operation. The authors packaged SiC JFET bare die into a dedicated high-temperature package to be able to perform experiments under extremely high ambient temperatures. The experimental results show that the device can ope...

Consider the experiment of tossing a 6-sided die. Suppose the outcome is 2. Does the event that the outcome is even happen? The answer is yes. Now assume that the toss produces an outcome 4, does the event that the outcome is even happen? The answer is yes. Actually observe that when the outcome is from the set {2, 4, 6}, the event happens. Thus an event in a probabilistic experiment is actuall...