J waves can commonly be seen in patients with severe hypothermia. Fig. 1 shows an ECG recording of a patient undergoing coronary artery revascularisation with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. The purple recording shows the ECG with a small, existing J wave early during the initiation of cooling. The green overlay demonstrates the accentuation of the J wave as the patient was further cooled to...

The article summarizes a study of phrasal stress in Armenian and English. The characteristics concern the effect of the grammatical factor on accentuation through auditory and acoustic clues. The analyzed issue is directly related to the problems of the rhythmic structure of languages. It is an attempt to explore and model a formal criterion for the analysis of rhythmic stereotype of languages....

1. Four groups of rats received a liquid formula diet, given alone (control), or supplemented with either ethanol or phenobarbitone, or both together. 2. The ethanol-treated group showed a fall in plasma triglyceride and a rise in liver triglyceride, as compared with the control rats. 3. The phenobarbitone-treated group showed a marked rise in plasma triglyceride but not in liver triglyceride. ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between compensatory shortening and coarticulation in German tense and lax vowels and to determine whether this relationship was influenced by prosodic accentuation. While previous studies focussed on temporal vowel reduction due to compensatory shortening, and often found conflicting results, our study extends previous results by includ...

Automaticpredictionof pitch accent assignmentis an important but challenging task in text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). Early work in accent prediction relied on simple word-class distinctions, but recentlymore sophisticatedinductive learningmodels using multiple features have been applied to the problem. For our neural network accent classifier, we developed a corpus that was labeled according to...

Many new public sector collaborations exhibit the characteristics of Shared Service Organizations (SSO). Public Safety Networks (PSNs) are receiving more attention and priority in the United States as the country deals with ever increasing threats from terrorism and natural disasters. As a network of independent, collaborating, safety agencies, supported by an information and communications tec...

Groups with commuting inner mappings are of nilpotency class at most two, but there exist loops with commuting inner mappings and of nilpotency class higher than two, called loops of Csörgő type. In order to obtain small loops of Csörgő type, we expand our programme from Explicit constructions of loops with commuting inner mappings, European J. Combin. 29 (2008), 1662–1681, and analyze the foll...

Traffic signs are effective only when users clearly understand their meaning. This paper reviews recent studies concerning traffic sign comprehension and finds that unsatisfactory comprehension is a common problem for drivers in many countries. The influence of user characteristics and sign cognitive features on understanding levels are summarized and discussed. While the positive relation betw...

This paper measures the technological significance of voluntary standard setting organizations (SSOs) by examining citations to patents disclosed in the standard setting process. We find that SSO patents are cited far more frequently than a set of control patents, and that SSO patents receive citations for a much longer period of time. Furthermore, we find a significant correlation between cita...