This study compares the phonetics of phonation categories within and across four languages: Gujarati (modal, breathy), White Hmong (modal, breathy, creaky), Jalapa Mazatec (modal, breathy, creaky), and Southern Yi (tense, lax). In addition to acoustic measures in all four languages, electroglottographic measures were also compared for Gujarati, Hmong, and Yi. Several measures distinguished phon...

life is full of harmony and contrast and combining contrasting forms is a large part of human thinking. everything in the universe tends to have a contrasting opposite. many researchers have studied these contrasts. the ode “lamiyyat al-'arab”, attributed to shanfara, is a traditional poem full of contradictory concepts. the present researchers examined these opposing concepts in this ode ...

he protein aggregates of various neuro-degenerative diseases are not created equal. So say Matsumoto et al. (page 75), who find that the aggregates of familial amyo-trophic lateral sclerosis (fALS) are unusually porous compared to those of Huntington's disease (HD). Both diseases are associated with the neuronal aggregation of a mutant protein in affected individuals. For fALS, the mutant prote...

Land surface temperature (LST) is a significant factor in energy balance and global climatology studies. cover (LC) elevation are two factors that affect the change of LST, their effects depend on different geography. This study aims to demonstrate an alternative approach examine LST during 20 years (2001 2020) Taiwan Island investigate effect LC decadal trend using linear model adjusting for e...

The Adelson-Bergen energy model (Adelson, E. H., & Bergen, J. R. (1985). Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2, 284-299) is a standard framework for understanding first-order motion processing. The opponent energy for a given input is calculated by subtracting one directional energy measure (EL) from its opposite (ER), and its ...