In a recent study a strong congruency-effect has been shown between processing numbers (high/low) and nouns with an implicit up or down directional cue (e.g. roof/root). On this basis, the present study investigates the impact of grammatical number on this effect. Subjects processed number cues (2,3,8,9) followed by singular nouns with either up, down or none oriented cue in one condition and t...

Through assessment of wind-wave directional spectra, we provide a comprehensive explanation the projected 21st Century changes in global climatology under high green-house emissions scenario. Using seven-member wave climate projection ensemble, estimate by comparing present and climatologies. Clustering techniques are applied to define regional patterns change with homogenous behavior. The unde...

In this paper we present a technique to derive rules describing contrast sets. Contrast sets are a formalism to represent groups differences. We propose a novel approach to describe directional contrasts using rules where the contrasting effect is partitioned into pairs of groups. Our approach makes use of a directional Fisher Exact Test to find significant differences across groups. We used a ...

OBJECTIVES Previous studies investigating speech perception in noise have typically been conducted with static masker positions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of spatial separation of source and masker (spatial release from masking, SRM) in a moving masker setup and to evaluate the impact of adaptive beamforming in comparison with fixed directional microphones in cochlear ...

In this paper, defected microstrip structure (DMS) is applied to design a compact microstrip rat-race hybrid coupler. The proposed structure introduces both harmonic signal suppression and a significant reduction of size because half of the ring is embedded in upper section. By embedding the DMS, it is observed that the third harmonic signal is suppressed to −25 dB with respect to a conventiona...

Experimental investigations were carried out to study the effect of humidity on the breakdown of rod-plane gaps subjected to both uni-directional and bi-directional oscillatory switching impulse voltages. The humidity ranged from 14.1 36 gm/m3 at a constant temperature of 40' C. The gap subjected to uni-directional 6.3, 10, lQ kHz and bi-directional 4.2, 10,20 kHz oscillatory switching impulse ...