The Speech Cycling Task (SCT) is a novel experimental paradigm developed together with Robert Port and Keiichi Tajima at Indiana University. In a SCT, subjects repeat a phrase containing multiple prominent, or stressed, syllables in time with an external timer, which can be simple or complex. A phase-based collective variable is deened in the acoustic signal. This paper reports on two experimen...

Improving tribological behaviors for dry contacts has always been a hot study topic, since liquid lubricants are not applicable certain vital scenarios, including space travel equipment. This describes the synergetic effects of micro groove texture and WSe2 flakes as solid on friction reduction in sliding contact. The reciprocating tests were performed under flake-filled conditions while varyin...

background: use of synbiotic and zinc sources had synergetic effects on broiler chickens performance and immune response improvements. objectives: this experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of synbiotic and zinc sources on broiler chickens performance, immune response and gut morphology. methods: a total of 780, one-day old male broiler chicks were randomly assigned in factorial met...

The use of motor primitives for the generation of complex movements is a relatively new and interesting idea for dimensionality reduction in robot control. We propose a framework in which adaptive primitives learn and represent synergetic arm movements. A simple and fixed set of postural and oscillatory primitives form the substrate through which all control is elicited. Higher level adaptive p...

We represent a theory of polymer gelation as an analogue of liquid-glass transition in which elastic fields of stress and strain shear components appear spontaneously as a consequence of the cross-linking of macromolecules. This circumstance is explained on the basis of obvious combinatoric arguments as well as a synergetic Lorenz system, where the strain acts as an order parameter, a conjugate...