This paper asks how rhythmicity is used to manage speaker transition in spontaneous talk and how temporal alignment helps to achieve interactional alignment. 56 Question + Answer (Q+A) pairs were analysed. 44 (79%) Qs ended rhythmically: in their last few accented syllables, f0 prominences were quasi-periodic. Of the As to these rhythmic Qs, 32 (73%) began with the same periodicity as the Q. As...

In many cases, postnatal depression is not identified or treated early enough, often as a result of poor co-ordination between the health professionals involved. This article outlines a project to develop multidisciplinary working to improve the care provision for women with postnatal depression.

The focus is the power formulae relating periodic time in terrestrial locomotion and flight to mass and length. The periodic timing of limbs and wings oscillating comfortably in absolute co-ordination is viewed as the characteristic period tau 0 of a system in which the free, undamped oscillatory motion of a point mass m at a distance l from a fixed axis does work against two conservative force...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we present an algorithm for generating approximate nondominated points of a multiobjective optimization problem (MOP)‎, ‎where the constraints and the objective functions are convex‎. ‎We provide outer and inner approximations of nondominated points and prove that inner approximations provide a set of approximate weakly nondominated points‎. ‎The proposed algorithm can be appl...

The hydraulic conductance of the leaf lamina ( K lamina ) substantially constrains whole-plant water transport, but little is known of its association with leaf structure and function. K lamina was measured for sun and shade leaves of six woody temperate species growing in moist soil, and tested for correlation with the prevailing leaf irradiance, and with 22 other leaf traits. K lamina varied ...

let $omega_x$ be a bounded, circular and strictly convex domain of a banach space $x$ and $mathcal{h}(omega_x)$ denote the space of all holomorphic functions defined on $omega_x$. the growth space $mathcal{a}^omega(omega_x)$ is the space of all $finmathcal{h}(omega_x)$ for which $$|f(x)|leqslant c omega(r_{omega_x}(x)),quad xin omega_x,$$ for some constant $c>0$, whenever $r_{omega_x}$ is the m...