The active dense tensegrity is desired to possess significant differences in bending stiffness (K) when considering the bending direction (up or down). Dense tensegrity structure was manufactured using tetrahedrashaped particles as the compression elements, and carbon fibers were used as the tensional cables such that an assembly in a dense planar array was obtained. Three types of polyhedral e...

Starting out from the assumption that monotonicity plays a central role in interpretation and inference, we derive a number of predictions about the complexity of processing quantified sentences. A quantifier may be upward entailing (i.e. license inferences from subsets to supersets) or downward entailing (i.e. license inferences from supersets to subsets). Our main predictions are the followin...

To study the effects of frequency shifts on vowel identification, a high-quality vocoder (STRAIGHT) was used to process a set of vowels in /hVd/ syllables spoken by two adult males, two adult females, and two children. Vowel identification accuracy was reduced when the spectrum envelope was shifted upward by a factor of 2.0, or downward by a factor of 0.6. Upward shifts produced a smaller decli...

Purpose This study aims to investigate how non-government organisation (NGO) managers balance accountability donors and beneficiaries the role of felt responsibility in this process. Design/methodology/approach Using concepts theory, practices microenterprise development NGOs are examined two countries – Bangladesh Indonesia through interviews with 20 analysis NGOs’ publicly available data. Fin...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that social, educational, cultural and physical factors in childhood and early adulthood may influence the chances and direction of social mobility, the movement of an individual between social classes over his/her life-course. This study examined the association of such factors with intra-generational and inter-generational social mobility within the Newcastle ...

splash detachment and transport of soil particles by raindrops are the initiating mechanisms of soil erosion by water. the size distribution of splashed particles is very important and effective in the rate of other erosion processes. however, this important issue has been less considered. therefore, the present study investigated individual and interaction effects of slope, rainfall intensity ...

In this paper we explore for the first time regional differences in the patterning of occupational social mobility in the UK. Drawing on data from Understanding Society (US), supported by the Labour Force Survey (LFS), we examine how rates of absolute and relative intergenerational occupational mobility vary across 19 regions of England, Scotland and Wales. Our findings somewhat problematize th...

Momentum and scalar (heat and water vapor) transfer between a walnut canopy and the overlying atmosphere are investigated for two seasonal periods (before and after leaf-out), and for five thermal stability regimes (free and forced convection, near-neutral condition, transition to stable, and stable). Quadrant and octant analyses of momentum and scalar fluxes followed by space-time autocorrelat...

We investigate magnetic data showing the presence of field-aligned magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling currents on 31 Cassini passes across Saturn’s southern postmidnight auroral region. The currents are strongly modulated in magnitude, form, and position by the phase of the southern planetary period oscillations (PPOs). PPO-independent currents are separated from PPO-related currents using the a...