This paper proposes a new method to generate audio in the context of interactive animations driven by a physics engine. Our approach aims at bridging the gap between direct playback of audio recordings and physically-based synthesis by retargetting audio grains extracted from the recordings according to the output of a physics engine. In an off-line analysis task, we automatically segment audio...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of an unstable surface on trunk and lower extremity muscle activities during various types of bridging exercises. [Subjects] Thirty healthy female adults voluntarily participated in this study. [Methods] All subjects were asked to perform 3 different bridging exercises (bridging exercise, single leg lift bridging exercise, single ...

A number of redox-active coordination polymers (CPs) or metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) have been successfully synthesized using transition metals and bridging ligands. This article aims to deal with gathering the aforementioned disperse issues regarding the electroactive CPs. It also goes towards illustrating the effects of various factors on the electrochemical behavior of CPs including...

A new digital divide is emerging both within and between nations that is due to inequalities in broadband Internet access. We show using data from the OECD and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that this new digital divide is a global problem that can be observed in both developed and developing countries. To bridge the global broadband divide, organizations and individuals must c...

Switch level models are widely used for fault analysis of MOS digital circuits. Switch level analysis (SLA) provides significantly more accurate results compared to the gate level models and also avoids the complexities of circuit level analysis. The accuracy of SLA is critically examined, and conditions under which switch level analysis may generate incorrect results are specified. Such condit...

This paper discusses the gap created by an international digital divide in Africa. The paper focuses on bridging the digital divide that exists between the developed countries and Africa, especially in the use of the internet and Global System Mobile (GSM) communication services. Issues like bridging the international digital divide, digital divide and Africa, bridging the digital divide in Afr...

Conjoint analysis studies involving many attributes and attribute levels often occur in practice. Because such studies can cause respondent fatigue and lack of cooperation, it is important to design data collection tasks that reduce those problems. Bridging designs, incorporating two or more task subsets with overlapping attributes, can presumably lower task difficulty in such cases. In this pa...

Sharing members with other online communities can be problematic for community responsiveness, as less member time and attention become available for the focal community. However, member time and attention spent externally have the potential to generate knowledge that bolsters the focal community’s responsiveness. Little is known about when member time and attention spent externally become such...

Although frequently noted in necropsy series, myocardial bridging has been detected in only 0.5 to 1.6 percent of coronary arteriograms. In this study, the prevalence of angiographically-demonstrable myocardial bridging was determined by a retrospective review of 465 consecutive coronary arteriograms. Bridging was present in 35 arteriograms (7.5 percent) in this series and was located exclusive...

INTRODUCTION External fixation of distal radius fractures may be static (wrist-bridging) or dynamic (wrist-bridging with mobile hinge or non-bridging). The aim of this systematic review is to investigate the effectiveness of different methods of external fixation for unstable distal radius fractures. METHODS A Medline database search was performed with strict eligibility criteria to obtain th...