in 2012 august 11 (12:23 utc) a moderate earthquake with mw=6.4 (usgs) occurred between ahar and varzaghan towns in azarbayjan province at northwest of iran. after eleven minutes another earthquake shook the area with mw=6.2 (usgs). these consecutive earthquakes followed by intensive sequences of aftershocks whereas the strongest one had mw=5.3 (usgs). in data processing including depth modific...

The modeling of the melody in a Text-To-Speech System is indispensable to have a good quality of synthesis and to approach the naturalness. The study of the melody generally includes the analysis of the local melody events relating to the accent and the declination of the global melody contour of an utterance. In this paper, we will present an experimental study of the declination phenomenon co...

In order to clarify the influence of fault dislocation on tunnel lining, FEM and single factor variable methods were used explore degree dislocation, dip angle, width, intersection angle between strike axis, form lining structure response, based which length anti-dislocation set-up for engineering design was obtained. The research shows that maximum displacement is basically consistent with dis...

Plasmid DNA encoding a luciferase reporter gene was complexed with each of six different hybrid nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized from mixtures of poly (D, L-lactide-co-glycolide acid) (PLGA 50:50) and the cationic lipids DOTAP (1, 2-Dioleoyl-3-Trimethyammonium-Propane) or DC-Chol {3beta-[N-(N', N'-Dimethylaminoethane)-carbamyl] Cholesterol}. Particles were 100-400 nm in diameter and the resultin...

To our knowledge, no one has explored the effect of modifications in balance recovery instructions on the kinetics of the threshold of balance recovery. In particular, the effect of instructions limiting the number of steps on joint torques at the maximum lean angle has not been quantified. We determined the joint torques at the ankle, knee and hip of 28 younger adults recovering balance at the...

Analytical solution for the problem of a surface-breaking long strike-slip fault in an elastic layer overlying an elastic half-space is well known. The purpose of this note is to obtain the corresponding solution for a blind fault. Since the solution is valid for arbitrary values of the fault-depth and the dip angle, the effects of these two important fault parameters can be studied numerically...

sensitive paper (Kodak Panalure) with the capillary at the centre. (i) and (ii) in Fig. 3 show the response of a water-filled, uncoated capillary under TE and TM illumination, adjusted to strike a broad range of angles and to highhght the region of the capillary response corresponding to reflections from the internal surface below the critical angle (30a to 90" in Fig. 3). As expected, TE refle...

This paper describes the declination trends of f0 in conversational speech data. A 10-minute dialogue interaction from a corpus of spontaneous speech was annotated to identify intersilence units (ISU) and turns. Detailed annotation of the ISUs was conducted in terms of communicative types and pitch patterns. f0 declination was measured by (1) fitting a regression line to f0 trajectories and (2)...

Although squid are generally considered to be effective predators, little is currently known of how squid maneuver and position themselves during prey strikes. In this study, high-speed video and kinematic analyses were used to study attacks by the brief squid Lolliguncula brevis on both shrimp and fish. Squid attack success was high (>80%) and three behavioral phases were identified: (1) appro...

Starry flounder Platichthys stellatus, a rare polymorphic flatfish exhibiting a large-scale geographic cline in the frequency of right-eyed (dextral) and left-eyed (sinistral) morphs, was studied to investigate whether foraging behaviour (turning angle and prey strike orientation) differed between dextral and sinistral laboratory-raised juveniles. Platichthys stellatus foraging on brine shrimp ...