Indentation as a method to characterize materials has a history of more than 117 years. However, to date, it is still the most popular way to measure the mechanical properties of various materials at microscale and nanoscale. This review summarizes the background and the basic principle of processing by indentation. It is demonstrated that indentation is an effective and efficient method to ide...

A number of previous studies have shown that speech sounds may have an intrinsic low dimensional structure. Such studies have focused on magnitude-based features ignoring phase information, as is the convention in many speech processing applications. In this paper dimensionality reduction methods are applied to MFCC and modified group delay function (MODGDF) features derived from the magnitude ...

This paper presents the methods to improve its portability of a spoken dialog system both on task domains and languages, which have been implemented in Chinese and Japanese in the tasks of sightseeing, accommodation-seeking guidance. Such methods include case frame conversion, template-based text generation and topic frame driven dialog control scheme. The former two methods are for improving t...

After 18 weeks of a controlled comparative study of extended contact lens wear a male subject presented with ocular symptoms. Microepithelial cysts were observed in both eyes and, after examination, in the eyes of 44 other participating patients. The cysts have been photographed and the rate of recovery monitored.

A large- or full-field visual stimulus slowly rotating around the naso-occipital axis of an observer causes both eyes to tort, and many of the factors controlling this optokinetic torsional response have been identified. The present study reports that a single line rotating about the line of sight can cause both eyes to tort in the same direction as the stimulus but with a low gain. We have use...

We examined whether dynamic stimulation that surrounds a rival target influences perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry. We presented a rival target surrounded by dynamic random-dot patterns to both eyes, and measured dominance durations for each eye's rival target. We found that rival target dominance durations were longer when surrounds were dynamic than when they were static or abs...

Ovaries are hormone influence organs and make a base for related diseases. Many other lesions are also seen in ovaries which are not related to hormonal disturbance. Ovarian lesions are not diagnosed in early stages as they are asymptomatic and physically difficult to examine. Though the non neoplastic lesions are very common when compared to neoplastic lesions of the ovary, there are very few ...

Despite modest sequence conservation and rapid evolution, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) appear to be conserved in expression pattern and function. However, analysis of lncRNAs across tissues and developmental stages remains largely uncharacterized in mammals. Here, we systematically investigated the lncRNAs of the Guizhou miniature pig (Sus scrofa), which was widely used as biomedical model. W...

Existing models for the generation of saccades predict fixed trajectories between start and landing positions of saccades. Experimental data show that saccades have rather variable trajectories. The objective of the present research is to quantify the variability in trajectories of binocular saccades and to test in how far spatial variability can be described by adding noise to components of ex...