The aim of this paper is to analyze the uncertainty quantification in a voice production mechanical model and update the probability density function corresponding to the tension parameter using the Bayes method and experimental data. Three parameters are considered uncertain in the voice production mechanical model used: the tension parameter, the neutral glottal area and the subglottal pressu...

An inverse analyses procedure for determining the mechanical material properties of strain hardening cement-based materials is presented. It allows to determine the uniaxial stressstrain curve up to the material’s localization point on the basis of the results of four-point bending tests. In these tests, the beam curvature is measured and serves as input value for the inverse analysis. An evolu...

in the framework of lattice QCD. We calculate the interface tension a with the "differential method" for pure SU(3) gauge theory and in the presence of dynamical quarks with four flavors. Using lattices with a spatial volume 8' X 16 we discuss the agreement between the differential and integral method in the pure gluonic case. With dynamical ferrnions it turns out that the interface tension is ...

We present a tension-controlled 2-point Hermite interpolatory subdivision scheme that is capable of reproducing circles starting from a sequence of sample points with any arbitrary spacing and appropriately chosen first and second derivatives. Whenever the tension parameter is set equal to 1, the limit curve coincides with the rational quintic Hermite interpolant to the given data and has guara...

Oxygen sensing by the carotid body is essential in vertebrates to adapt to reduced arterial oxygen tension. In this issue of Science Signaling, Yuan et al. report an intricate signaling system to transduce a physical parameter--oxygen tension--into a biological cellular signal (neural discharge) through changes in the production of carbon monoxide (CO), the second messenger cyclic guanosine mon...

Splines in tension are smooth interpolation surfaces whose behavior in unconstrained regions is controlled by the tension parameter. I show that such surfaces can be efficiently constructed with recursive filter preconditioning and introduce a family of corresponding two-dimensional minimum-phase filters. The filters are created by spectral factorization on a helix.

-In this paper, we present recent efforts conducted to investigate the dynamic behavior of a sensor diaphragm under initial tension. A comprehensive mechanics model based on a plate with in-plane tension is presented and analyzed to examine the transition from plate behavior to membrane behavior. It is shown that for certain tension parameter values, it is appropriate to model the diaphragm as ...

We contribute interaction designs and an experiment that explore the design space of multi-stroke phrasing techniques for pen interfaces. Our experiment evaluates several techniques for actively maintaining muscle tension. We use these results to show how muscular tension can reduce the need for selection or tool modes in pen interfaces, and discuss various phrase structures supporting scope, c...