This study explored the perception of emotion appraisal dimensions on the basis of speech prosody in a cross-cultural setting. Professional actors from Australia and India vocally portrayed different emotions (anger, fear, happiness, pride, relief, sadness, serenity and shame) by enacting emotion-eliciting situations. In a balanced design, participants from Australia and India then inferred asp...

Linear Prediction (LP) analysis has proven to be very effective and successful in speech analysis and speech synthesis applications. This may be due to the fact that LP analysis captures implicitly the time-varying vocal tract area function. However, it captures only the second-order statistical relationships and only the linear dependencies in the sequence of samples of speech signals (and not...

The influence of the thyroarytenoid (TA) and cricothyroid (CT) muscle activation on vocal fold stiffness and eigenfrequencies was investigated in a muscularly controlled continuum model of the vocal folds. Unlike the general understanding that vocal fold fundamental frequency was determined by vocal fold tension, this study showed that vocal fold eigenfrequencies were primarily determined by vo...

It is known that stable 2D solitons of the semi-vortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types are maintained by interplay cubic attractive nonlinearity spin–orbit coupling (SOC) in binary Bose–Einstein condensates. We introduce a double-layer system, which two condensates, stabilized SOC, linearly coupled tunneling. By means numerical methods, it found symmetric two-layer undergo spontaneous-symmetry-b...

Breaking waves have ability to transport large quantities of sediment and significant impact on coastal structures morphology. Hence, modeling of wave breaking is an important subject in coastal and marine engineering. In this research, the periodic wave breaking process on a plane slope is studied experimentally and numerically. Laboratory experiments were conducted to record water surface ele...

the main purpose of this semi - experimental study was to examine the effects of rehearsal strategies training on second language vocabulary learning . in particular , four training methods were examined : ( a ) vocal rehearsal , ( b ) subvocal rehearsal , ( c ) vocal and subvocal rehearsal, and ( d ) no rehearsal . one hundred and sixty - two undergraduate freshmen ( four intact classes from f...

to study the effects of chilling on dormancy breaking and the increased germination characteristics of nepeta (germination percent and speed, seedling length, vigor index, wet and dry weight), a factorial experiment in a completely randomized design with 4 replications was implemented in a laboratory in 2014. factor a was the chilling treatment in three levels (control, one-month and two-month ...