The paper treats a question of controller design for aircraft pitch attitude in the presence of uncertain aerodynamics. The presented design methodology guarantees desired pitch attitude transient performance indices by inducing of two-time-scale motions in the closedloop system where the controller dynamics is a singular perturbation with respect to the system dynamics. Stability conditions im...

introduction: auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering are two major components of the auditory temporal processing abilities that contribute to speech perception and language development. auditory temporal resolution and auditory temporal ordering can be evaluated by gap-in-noise (gin) and pitch-pattern-sequence (pps) tests, respectively. in this survey, the effect of biling...

background: the success of dental implants depends on the manner in which stresses are transferred to the surrounding bone. an important consideration is to design an implant with a geometry that will minimize the peak bone stresses caused by standard loading. the aim of this study was to assess the infl uence of implant thread geometry on biomechanical load transfer and to compare the differen...

Our experience of pitch, timing, loudness, and timbre in music depends in complex ways on physical measurements of frequency, time, amplitude, spectral envelope, and temporal envelope. Psychoacousticians, who investigate these dependencies, can shed light on basic musical questions. Psychoacoustics can explain the central role of frequency and time in music theory and notation, variations in th...

Native Mandarin normal-hearing (NH) listeners can easily perceive lexical tones even under conditions of great voice pitch variations across speakers by using the pitch contrast between context and target stimuli. It is however unclear whether cochlear implant (CI) users with limited access to pitch cues can make similar use of context pitch cues for tone normalization. In this study, native Ma...

If one-dimensional (1D), p –period and arbitrarily structured grating position-related topographical signals coexist with noise, it is difficult to evaluate the pitch practically using the centre-of-gravity (CG) method. The Fourier-transform-based (FT) method is the most precise to evaluate pitches; nevertheless it cannot give the uniformity of pitches. If a cross correlation filter ̶ a half per...

Automatic music transcription (AMT) aims to infer a latent symbolic representation of a piece of music (piano-roll), given a corresponding observed audio recording. Transcribing polyphonic music (when multiple notes are played simultaneously) is a challenging problem, due to highly structured overlapping between harmonics. We study whether the introduction of physically inspired Gaussian proces...

In this paper, the roll and pitch dynamics of a biologically inspired quadruped water runner robot are analyzed, and a stable robot design is proposed and tested. The robot’s foot–water interaction force is derived using drag equations. Roll direction instability is attributed to a small roll moment of inertia and large instantaneous roll moments generated by the foot–water interaction forces. ...

The iambic-trochaic law describes humans' tendency to form trochaic groups over sequences varying in pitch or intensity (i.e., the loudest or highest sounds mark group beginnings), and iambic groups over sequences varying in duration (i.e., the longest sounds mark group endings). The extent to which these perceptual biases are shared by humans and nonhuman animals is yet unclear. In Experiment ...

This paper investigates intonational pitch variations and pitch peak alignment in declarative sentences and is part of a larger study of declarative, interrogative and imperative grammatical constructions in the Frisian-Dutch contact situation. Frisian is a minority language spoken in the province of Fryslân in the Netherlands. Following Jun [19], we devised a reading task in which phrasal into...