We investigated whether regional differences in the native language (L1) influence the perception of second language (L2) sounds. Many cross-language and L2 perception studies have assumed that the degree of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds predicts cross-linguistic and L2 performance. The present study tests this assumption by examining the perception of the English contrast betwee...

Novel therapies are crucially needed for short bowel syndrome. One potential therapy is the production of tissue engineered intestine (TEI). The intestinal environment presents significant challenges to the selection of appropriate material for tissue engineering scaffolds. Our goal was to characterize different scaffold materials to downselect to that best suited for TEI production. To investi...

Phonological studies of ATR harmony have led to advances in autosegmental phonology, markedness theory, and locality. Nevertheless, many of our theoretical assumptions may have been based on misanalyzed data or non-rigorous typological assumptions. For example, detailed acoustic and/or articulatory studies have shown that transparent vowels are not always transparent (Gick et al 2006, Richart &...

The development of devices to controlled the release drugs are in constant technological innovation. aim is improve on target areas. Poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) has been widely investigated because degradation rate, biocompatibility, availability, no toxicity, cost and good adhesion a large number drugs. Thus, present study was associated polymer PCL with antibiotics tetracycline as local deliv...

We show the global well-posedness of nonlinear Schrodinger equation with periodically varying coefficients and a small parameter ɛ > 0, which is used in optical-fiber communications. also prove that solutions converge to solution for Gabitov–Turitsyn or averaged as tends zero.

Cathodoluminescence (CL) investigations are performed on nominally undoped and Si-doped ε-Ga2O3 samples grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (0001)-Al2O3 substrates, using different carrier gases. All films exhibit a broad low-temperature CL emission extending over the photon energy range 2–3.4 eV. Emission deconvolution suggests that four narrower bands centered at about 2.4, 2.75, 3.0 3...