In our efforts to model spontaneous speech for use in, for example, spoken dialogue systems, a series of experiments have been conducted in order to investigate correlates to perceived hesitation. Previous work has shown that it is the total duration increase that is the valid cue rather than the contribution by either of the two factors pause duration and final lengthening. In the present expe...

pact B horizon, high in colloid. There is an obvious relationship between rate of height growth of trees and recognizable quantitative group combinations of factors, such as are summarized, for instance, in a specific soil type of specific slope and exposure. There is even more evident relationship between rate of height growth and specific soil profile characteristics. It has been possible to ...

abstract the proper management of a watershed depends on recognition of effective elements and investigation of their behavior in different conditions. till date, many researches have studied the role of topographical general characteristics on hydrologic behaviors. whereas, the changeability of hydrologic properties under different conditions, especially in iranian watershed has been rarely ta...

Recently, D’Odorico and Fagherazzi (2003) proposed “A probabilistic model of rainfall-triggered shallow landslides in hollows” (Water Resour. Res., 39, 2003). Their model describes the long-term evolution of colluvial deposits through a probabilistic soil mass balance at a point. Further building blocks of the model are: an infinite-slope stability analysis; a steady-state kinematic wave model ...

Ankle sprains are common sports injuries. Inadequate foot position awareness is thought to be the fundamental cause of these injuries. Ankle taping may decrease risk of injury through improving foot position awareness. The benefit of taping is thought to decrease with duration of exercise because of poor tape adherence to human skin. This study was a randomized, crossover, controlled comparison...

In recent years, as the frequency of debris flow outbreak in strong earthquake areas has increased and scale been expanding, order to explore erosion characteristics flow, a lateral flume model experimental device designed, 18 groups incomplete orthogonal experiments have carried out, with unit weight 1.6~2.0 g/cm3, content fine particles accumulation 0~28.82%, longitudinal slope gradient gully...

The slope of phase 3 and three noninvasively determined dead space estimates derived from the expiratory carbon dioxide tension (PCO2) versus volume curve, including the Bohr dead space (VD,Bohr), the Fowler dead space (VD,Fowler) and pre-interface expirate (PIE), were investigated in 28 healthy control subjects, 12 asthma and 29 emphysema patients (20 severely obstructed and nine moderately ob...