In three experiments, the processing of lexical tone in Cantonese was examined. Cantonese listeners more often accepted a nonword as a word when the only difference between the nonword and the word was in tone, especially when the F0 onset difference between correct and erroneous tone was small. Same-different judgments by these listeners were also slower and less accurate when the only differe...

The objective of this work is to develop a system that will facilitate the automated characterization of ultrasonic imaging carotid plaques for the identification of individuals with asymptomatic carotid stenosis at risk of stroke. A total of 166 images were collected which were classified into: symptomatic because of ipsilateral hemispheric symptoms, or asymptomatic because they were .not conn...

The aim of this work was to develop a system based on modular neural networks and multi-feature texture analysis that will facilitate the automated interpretation of cloud images. This will speed up the interpretation process and provide continuity in the application of satellite imagery for weather forecasting. A series of infrared satellite images from the Geostationary satellite METEOSAT7 we...

the main purpose of this paper is to detemine the fine spectrum of the generalized difference operator delta_{uv} over the sequence space c0. these results are more general than the fine spectrum of the generalized difference operator delta_{uv} of srivastava and kumar.

BACKGROUND Prepulse inhibition (PPI) depicts the effects of a weak sound preceding strong acoustic stimulus on acoustic startle response (ASR). Previous studies suggest that PPI is influenced by physical parameters of prepulse sound such as intensity and preceding time. The present study characterizes the impact of prepulse tone frequency on PPI. METHODS Seven female C57BL mice were used in t...

This paper investigated the potential acoustic correlates of word stress within a disyllabic tonal sequence, a rising tone followed by a rising tone (Tone2 Tone2) in Mandarin, based on a large corpus with adequate information of stress patterns and prosodic boundary levels. The results showed that a) For Tone2+Tone2 words, features based on tone nucleus were more effective than that of the whol...