In this paper I will defend the view that, according to Locke, secondary qualities are dispositions produce sensations in us. Although is widely attributed interpretation needs defending for two reasons. First, commentators often assume that dispositional properties because Locke calls them “powers” sensations. However, primary also powers, so powers locution insufficient grounds justifying dis...

Based on water quality monitoring data of four inflow rivers of Nansihu Lake in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the water qualities were evaluated according to the method of comprehensive water quality identification index, with the indicators of dissolved oxygen, CODMn, biochemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen. The results show that the rivers has been in the state of serious pollution, in which th...

Plant growth regulators play important roles in plant growth and development, but little is known about the roles of plant growth regulators in manifestation yield components, yield and seed qualities of soybean. An attempt has been made to elaborate the subject with emphasis on important plant growth regulators viz. auxins, cytokinins, Gibberellins and abscisic acid and others. Some environmen...

Narrow bandpass filters (NBPF) are an important type of thin film filter technology that have become commonplace within the electrooptics industry. These devices are indispensable in fields such as analytical instrumentation, microscopy and telecommunications. NBPF are typically characterized as having high transmission with steep roll-offs and broad isolation. Thin film coating designs that me...

Tracks of small animals are important in environmental surveillance, where pattern recognition algorithms allow species identification of the individuals creating tracks. These individuals can also be seen as artists, presented in their natural environments with a canvas upon which they can make prints. We present tracks of small mammals and reptiles which have been collected for identification...

This paper describes a speech coding strategy for a cochlear implant system assuming a Nucleus Cochlear Implant receiver stimulator. Speech processor converts input speech into a series of stimulation electrode position and stimulation current intensities. This process can be optimized with a decomposing process of an acoustic signal into a given set of impulse responses corresponding to a set ...

The intersection of interactive multimedia and public space environments such as museums provides the opportunity to examine some of the fundamental environmental qualities of both domains. Public spaces are clearly public, spatial and timeless. Multimedia Is multisensorial and provides for controlled segmentation and group experiences. Both focus on the interactive experience. The key to good ...

AbstrAct Linguistic qualities are essential for the fitness for use of every standard. The intentions of the standards developers should become perfectly clear to those who will finally use the documents, but language barriers at several project stages may hinder this. This chapter addresses the topic for standards at the global and regional levels using a case study about the linguistic qualit...

facial expression. A disembodied voice would be a detriThis paper explores the expression of emotion in synment to a life-like quality of interaction that we would like thesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We have Kismet to have with people. Synchronized movements of adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot's speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak t...