Given that Mandarin is a tone language and English is not, the present study investigated the perception of Mandarin tones in young school-aged children with or without tone language exposure. Mandarin Monolingual (MM), English-Mandarin Bilingual (EMB) and English Monolingual (EM) children aged 6 to 8 years participated in tone identification and discrimination tasks. Tone identification and di...

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This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock. In each of the five contrasting metropolitan areas, rent inflation since the late 1980s is found to have varied by market segment. In some metro areas, rental prices have risen most rapidly in the bottom third of the rent distribution, ...

Perl Status Reporter (SRr) [1] is a data mining tool and in this research work we illustrate the use of SRr on spatio-temporal database. Spatio–temporal data are associated with time and space and used vastly in different applications of diversified areas such as geography, geology, city planning, agriculture, environmental study, traffic navigation, aerospace industries, and so on. We exploit ...

Taking as examples of South Gate tunnel project and Metro Line 2 crossing project in Xi’an, this paper analyses the dynamic response of motor vehicle and train loads acting on a tunnel structure .based on finite element model of three-dimensional dynamics. By comprehensive use of load numerical fixation method and analytic formula method, the vibrating load curves of motor vehicle and subway tr...

Despite its aesthetic experimentation, intervention into urgent questions about citizenship and belonging in contemporary India, attention to the most iconic of Indian cities, Mumbai, Madhusree Dutta’s 2006 documentary film 7 Islands a Metro—and work more broadly—has yet receive critical it demands. Addressing this gap, article examines use spectrality structure her search for form that makes r...

Modern society is increasingly dependent on the stability of a complex system of interdependent infrastructure sectors. It is imperative to build resilience of large-scale infrastructures like metro systems for addressing the threat of natural disasters and man-made attacks in urban areas. Analysis is needed to ensure that these systems are capable of withstanding and containing unexpected pert...

During Xenopus oogenesis, the message transport organizer (METRO) pathway delivers germinal granules and localized RNAs to the vegetal cortex of the oocyte via the mitochondrial cloud (Balbiani body). According to the traditional model, the mitochondrial cloud is thought to break up at the onset of vitellogenesis and the germinal granules and METRO-localized RNAs are transported within the mito...

This paper addresses the key assumption in behavioral and transportation planning literature that, when people use a transit system more frequently, they become less dependent on and less sensitive to transit maps in their decision-making. Therefore, according to this assumption, map changes are much less impactful to travel decisions of frequent riders than to that of first-time or new passeng...

Metropolitan area ring networks can be categorized into metro edge and metro core rings. The traffic characteristics of metro edge and metro core rings are quite different. While metro edge rings exhibit a strongly hubbed traffic pattern (hot spots), traffic demands in metro core rings are much more uniform. We examine the throughput-delay performance of a buffer insertion ring with destination...