Ulster (Donegal) Irish is strikingly different from southern varieties of Irish in having a dominance of rising tunes. In this paper we look at the prosodic characteristics (tunes and phonetic interrogativity markers) of utterance-final rising tunes in statements (ST) and questions (WHQ, YNQ) in four local varieties (RF, BF, GCC and RG) of Donegal Irish (DI), in order to shed light on possible ...

Azobenzene polymer thin films exhibit reversible surface mass transport when irradiated with a light intensity and/or polarization gradient, although the exact mechanism remains unknown. In order to address the role of thermal effects in the surface relief grating formation process peculiar to azo polymers, a cellular automaton simulation was developed to model heat flow in thin films undergoin...

Reliable forecasts of climate change in the immediate future are difficult, especially on regional scales, where natural climate variations may amplify or mitigate anthropogenic warming in ways that numerical models capture poorly. By decomposing recent observed surface temperatures into components associated with ENSO, volcanic and solar activity, and anthropogenic influences, we anticipate gl...

This letter investigates the MHD three-dimensional flow of upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid over a bi-directional stretching surface by considering the Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model. This model has tendency to capture the characteristics of thermal relaxation time. The governing partial differential equations even after employing the boundary layer approximations are non linear. Accurate...

The use of smart phones in healthcare applications is growing steadily. The inbuilt sensors are used to estimate the value of physiological data from human body. With progressive innovation, smart phone based medical applications will continue to be developed at an exponential rate. In this paper, we show that a smart phone can be used to monitor the blood flow in finger, based on the pulse hei...

lack of unified system in characterizing and reporting thyroid nodules is deeply felt almost in every institution and is a source of confusion among diagnostic radiologists, pathologists, thyroid surgeons, oncologists, endocrinologists and interventionalists. elaborate systems exist but they are not easy to use. therefore many of those systems cannot be utilized widely in general radiology prac...

We propose that cardiovascular drift, characterized by a progressive decline in stroke volume after 10-20 min of exercise, is primarily due to increased heart rate rather tahn a progressive increase in cutaneous blood flow as body temperature rises.