We obtain some oscillation criteria for the Hamiltonian difference system (AY{t) = B{t)Y{t+\) + C{t)Z{t), I AZ{t) = -A{t)Y{t + 1) B*{t)Z{t), where A, B, C, Y, Z are dxd matrix functions. As a corollary, we establish the validity of an earlier conjecture for a second-order matrix difference system.

The objective of this research is to verify the effects of horseback riding participation on the muscle tone of pelvic limbs and articular range of motion for children with spastic cerebral palsy. The research target is 16 children with spastic cerebral palsy, 8 children for the experimental group and 8 children for the control group. As a tool to measure the muscle tone, Modified Ashworth Scal...

Background and Objectives There is no clear standard for the difference in thresholds of auditory brainstem response (ABR) pure tone audiometry (PTA) when using ABR to evaluate reliability PTA. Therefore, we assessed PTA each frequency. Consequently, present here actual values between two tests that can be used as a reference clinic.Subjects Method We retrospectively results 129 ears. Ears whic...

OBJECTIVES This study directly compared the accuracy of two audiometry-based tests for screening school children for hearing impairment: the currently used test, pure tone screen and a device newly applied to children, HearCheck Screener. DESIGN Two-gate case-control diagnostic test accuracy study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Hearing impaired children ('intended cases') aged 4-6 years were rec...

In this paper our approach to the lexical tone recognition of Chinese continuous speech is presented. The Mixed Gaussian Continuous Probability Model (MGCPM) [1] is used for the tone modeling, and the quadric curve is adopted to simulate the Fundamental frequency (F0) contour, whose three coefficients are calculated and taken as the features of the tone models. The tone variety in continuous Ch...

In this paper, we propose a coding algorithm for High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI). Our encoder applies a tone mapping model based on scaled μ-Law encoding, followed by a conventional Low Dynamic Range Image (LDRI) encoder. The tone mapping model is designed to minimize the difference between the tone-mapped HDRI and its LDR version. By virtue of the nature of the μ-Law model, not only the quali...

Binaural hearing involves using information relating to the differences between the signals that arrive at the two ears, and it can make it easier to detect and recognize signals in a noisy environment. This phenomenon of binaural hearing is quantified in laboratory studies as the binaural masking-level difference (BMLD). Mandarin is one of the most commonly used languages, but there are no pub...

We studied the degree of arteriolar smooth muscle constriction in the spinotrapezius muscle microcirculation of spontaneously hypertensive rats and their normotensive controls, Wistar-Kyoto rats. The constriction was expressed in the form of a nondimensional tone as the difference between steady state and dilated diameter (after papaverine treatment) divided by the dilated diameter. Both animal...

The present study investigated tone perception by speakers of Taiwanese Southern Min and those of American English with an AX discrimination task. Two Taiwanese Southern Min tone continua were constructed from natural speech stimuli. One continuum ranged from a high level tone (T55) to a mid level tone (T33), and the other from a high level (T55) to a high falling tone (T51). The results showed...