There is an error in the third equation. Please view the complete, correct equation here: t half ¼ log e 2 b In the penultimate sentence of the Abstract, the last sentence of the first paragraph in the Results section, and the first sentence of the final paragraph of the Discussion section the half-life value is incorrectly calculated as 6.3. The correct half-life value should read 6.7. open ac...

The impact of reactivity ratios determined with the Nelder and Mead simplex method on the kinetic-model discrimination and the solvent-effect determination for the styrene/acrylonitrile monomer system was investigated. For the monomer system, the penultimate unit effect was inversely proportional to the polarity of the solvent: acetonitrile , N,N-dimethylformamide , methyl ethyl ketone , toluen...

This talk reports on the ongoing tonal changes in Kagoshima Japanese (KJ), a southern dialect with about one million speakers. The traditional prosodic system of this dialect is remarkably different from that of standard Tokyo Japanese. However, young native speakers of the dialect, who are virtually bilingual between Kagoshima and Tokyo Japanese, have developed a new prosodic system in which s...

This paper proposes two methods for nonlinear observer design which are based on a partial nonlinear observer canonical form (POCF). Observability and integrability existence conditions for the new POCF are weaker than the well-established nonlinear observer canonical form (OCF), which achieves exact error linearization. The proposed observers provide the global asymptotic stability of error dy...

Personality processes relating to social perception have been shown to play a significant role in the experience of stress. In 5 studies, the authors demonstrate that early stage attentional processes influence the perception of social threat and modify the human stress response. The authors first show that cortisol release in response to a stressful situation correlates with selective attentio...

To investigate the interaction between segmental and supra-segmental stress-related information in early word learning, two experiments were conducted with 20- to 24-month-old English-learning children. In an adaptation of the object categorization study designed by Nazzi and Gopnik (2001), children were presented with pairs of novel objects whose labels differed by their initial consonant (Exp...

Background: Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the prototype of subepidermal autoimmune bullous dermatoses (SABDs). Direct immunofluorescence on salt split skin substrate (DIF-SS) is one of the methods used to differentiate this group of dermatoses. Objective: We conducted this study in order to delineate the results of DIF-SS in SABD patients. Patients and Methods: Seventeen patients with a BP-like cl...

An important problem in pattern recognition is the effect of limited training samples on classification performance. When the ratio of the number of training samples to the dimensionality is small, parameter estimates become highly variable, causing the deterioration of classification performance. This problem has become more prevalent in remote sensing with the emergence of a new generation of...