When the image of a speaker saying the bisyllable /aga/ is presented in synchrony with the sound of a speaker saying /aba/, subjects tend to report hearing the sound /ada/. The present experiment explores the effects of spatial separation on this class of perceptual illusion known as the McGurk effect. Synchronous auditory and visual speech signals were presented from different locations. The a...

Space manipulators mounted on an on-o thrustercontrolled base are envisioned to assist in the assembly and maintenance of space structures. When handling large payloads, manipulator joint and link exibility become important, for they can result in payload-attitude controller fuel-replenishing dynamic interactions. In this paper, the dynamics model of an Nexible-joint space manipulator is develo...

This study examines the hypothesis that audio-visual integration of speech requires both expectation to perceive speech and sufficient attentional resources to allow multimodal integration. Audio-visual integration was measured by recording susceptibility to the McGurk effect whilst participants simultaneously performed a primary visual task under conditions of high or low perceptual load. Acco...

In the framework of the recently proposed QCD based parton model for the cumulative phenomena in the interactions with nuclei the dependence of the cumulative pion production rates on the transverse momentum K⊥ is studied. The mean value of K⊥ is found to grow with x in the cumulative region. The obtained results are in agreement with the available experimental data. ∗This work is supported by ...

The production of jets with large transverse momenta by photon beams differs in a number of ways from the corresponding hadroproduction case. These differences can be used to further investigate the interactions of the underlying hadronic constituents as well as to study the interactions between photons and hadrons. It has become conventional to describe jet photoproduction in terms of two comp...

This paper investigates a two-country model of capital accumulation with country-specific production externalities. The main concern of our discussion is to explore the presence of equilibrium indeterminacy in an open-economy setting. In contrast to the existing studies on equilibrium indeterminacy in small-open economies, the present paper demonstrates that opening up international trade and f...

We give a model-independent analysis of CP violating lepton polarization in the exclusive semileptonic B decay of B → D(∗)lν̄ including dimension six four-fermion tensor interactions at the heavy quark limit. It is shown that the tensor interactions should not be neglected if the associated couplings are comparable to others. The effect of tensor interactions on the transverse lepton polarizatio...

We present a general analysis of the effective potential for neutrino propagation in matter, assuming a generic set of Lorentz invariant non-derivative interactions. We find that in addition to the known vector and axial vector terms, in a polarized medium also tensor interactions can play an important role. We compute the effective potential arising from a tensor interaction. We show that the ...

In airline schedule planning models, the demand and price information are usually taken as inputs to the model. Therefore schedule and capacity decisions are taken separately from pricing decisions. In this paper we present an integrated scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a single airline where these decisions are taken simultaneously. This integration enables to explicitly model supply...