When perceiving speech, listeners compensate for reverberation and stable spectral peaks in the speech signal. Despite natural listening conditions usually adding both reverberation and spectral coloration, these processes have only been studied separately. Reverberation smears spectral peaks across time, which is predicted to increase listeners' compensation for these peaks. This prediction wa...

The aim of this study was to determine the degree of pelvic tilt in the three dimensions, the trunk muscle strength and effects on gait in trans-tibial amputated patients. This study comprised of 22 unilateral trans-tibial amputated patients who were seen at the authors' Prosthetics and Orthotics Laboratory for the purpose of prosthetic provision. Measurements were made using plurimeter and cal...

BACKGROUND The various measurements of patellar tilting failed to isolate patellar tilting from the confounding effect of its neighboring bone rotation (femoral and tibial rotation) in people sustaining patellofemoral pain (PFPS). Abnormal motions of the tibia and the femur are believed to have an effect on patellofemoral mechanics and therefore PFPS. The current work is to explore the various ...

We show that recent measurements of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies by Boomerang and MAXIMA can be mainly characterized by four observables : the position of the Ðrst acoustic peak, the height of the Ðrst peak relative to COBE normalization, l1\ 206 ^ 6 ; H1\ 7.6^ 1.4 ; the height of the second peak relative to the Ðrst, and the height of the third H2\ 0.38^ 0.04 ...

Iterative adaptive inverse filtering (IAIF) [1] remains among the state-of-the-art algorithms for estimating glottal flow from the recorded speech signal. Here, we re-examine IAIF in light of its foundational, classical model of voiced (non-nasalized) speech, wherein the overall spectral tilt is caused only by lipradiation and glottal effects, while the vocal-tract transfer function contains fo...

The functional and morphological connectivity between various horizontal cell (HC) types (H1, H2, H3, and H4) and photoreceptors was studied in zebrafish retina. Since HCs are strongly coupled by gap junctions and feedback from HCs to photoreceptors depends strongly on connexin (Cx) hemichannels, we characterized the various HC Cxs (Cx52.6, Cx52.7, Cx52.9, and Cx55.5) in Xenopus oocytes. All Cx...