In this study, sensitivity to tonal relations was assessed by using real melodies instead of traditional scales or chords. Two groups of listeners-one trained, one untrained-rated the goodness of fit of each of the 12 tones of the chromatic scale as the final note of familiar and unfamiliar tune excerpts. The unfamiliar excerpts were the mirror forms in pitch and time of the familiar tunes. The...

Australian English is referred to widely as a rising variety of English due to the prevalence of rising tunes in interactive discourse. Australian English subjects were required to listen to a series of rising stimuli that varied in terms of pitch level and pitch span and were asked whether they heard a question or statement. The results showed that both rise span and pitch level of the rise el...

Two new CMS PYTHIA8 tunes, CP5-CR1 and CP5-CR2, obtained respectively for the quantum chromodynamics-inspired gluon-move color reconnection (CR) models in PYTHIA8, are introduced. In addition, uncertainty on top quark mass due to CR effects, calculated with is presented.

Controlling magnetism using voltage is highly desired for applications, but remains challenging due to fundamental contradiction between polarity and magnetism. Here we propose a mechanism manipulate magnetic domain walls in ferrimagnetic or ferromagnetic multiferroics electric field. Different from those studies based on static domain-level couplings, here the magnetoelectric coupling relies c...

With cochlear implants, you can make it possible for deaf people to hear again. The who developed theses implants were mainly interested in enabling the understand what other say. In this study, we asked ourselves how good a implant is when listening music. We worked with children born have never heard without implant. For music, an exact hearing of tones played at same time necessary logic lot...

The 0.8 GeV storage ring Super-ACO is now fully equipped with undulators. Two new undulators have been recently installed. Their effects on beam dynamics have been studied. In addition, new developments are continuously in progress in order to optimize the beam performances for the users. A beam position feedback system is now operational. A 500 MHz RF cavity allows to reduce the bunch length a...

Folk music is closely related to the musical culture of a specific nation or region. Even though folk songs have been passed down mainly by oral tradition, most musicologists study the relation between folk songs on the basis of symbolic music descriptions, which are obtained by transcribing recorded tunes into a score-like representation. Due to the complexity of audio recordings, once having ...

We report widely tunable (≈ 260 nm) Tm(3+) and Ho(3+) doped fluorozirconate (ZBLAN) glass waveguide extended cavity lasers with close to diffraction limited beam quality (M(2) ≈ 1.3). The waveguides are based on ultrafast laser inscribed depressed claddings. A Ti:sapphire laser pumped Tm(3+)-doped chip laser continuously tunes from 1725 nm to 1975 nm, and a Tm(3+)-sensitized Tm(3+):Ho(3+) chip ...

The conversational speech of seventeen Australian English-speaking female adolescents was analysed to examine intonational variation in turn-internal and turnfinal contexts in spontaneous talk-in-interaction. Between 69-72% of all intonational contours analysed in the corpus had final rises, although only a small proportion of these tunes were examples of uptalk, i.e. high rising terminals asso...