abstract accurate prediction of hourly minimum temperature is required for various crop models which simulate photosynthesis and transpiration. such data can be used for crop protection and reducing the crops injuries due to freezing as well. our objective of this study is employing trigonometric and pattern recognition (k-nn) approaches to evaluate their potential in prediction of hourly tempe...

description of lactation curve were investigated using sine function, compare it with two functions (dijekstra and wood). the data contained 32233 dairy milk yield records from 93 first parity iranian holstein cows that had calving between aug. 2008 and jul. 2009. actual milk production per day and subsequently the actual production of each animal were available in the first lactation. lactatio...

This paper proposes a modified sine cosine algorithm (MSCA) for discrete sizing optimization of truss structures. The original sine cosine algorithm (SCA) is a population-based metaheuristic that fluctuates the search agents about the best solution based on sine and cosine functions. The efficiency of the original SCA in solving standard optimization problems of well-known mathematical function...

We developed a CALL (computer-aided language learning) system for teaching the pronunciation of Japanese long vowels, the mora nasal and mora obstruents to nonnative speakers of Japanese. Long vowels and short vowels are spectrally almost identical but their phone durations differ significantly. Similar conditions exist between mora nasals and non-mora nasals, and between mora and non-mora obst...

Jonathan Desponds, Andreas Mayer, Thierry Mora, and Aleksandra M. Walczak University of California San Diego, Department of Physics, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Laboratoire de physique théorique, CNRS, UPMC and École normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France Laboratoire de physique statistique, CNRS, UPMC and École normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France (Dated: Marc...

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We investigated the role of foot structure on mora duration in Japanese. Our initial hypothesis was that moras in foot-final position are longer than moras in the same foot. Ten speakers of Tokyo Japanese read a set of surnames of the form CVCVCVCV, in which the second and fourth CVs were seen to correspond to foot-final moras. The analysis showed no support for foot-final mora lengthening. How...