Structural equation modeling was used to analyze partial and total in situ annoyance in combined transportation noise situations. A psychophysical total annoyance model and a perceptual total annoyance model were proposed. Results show a high contribution of Noise exposure and Noise sensitivity to Noise annoyance, as well as a causal relationship between noise annoyance and lower Dwelling satis...

Five ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the combined AGASA and HiRes stereo data are analyzed to test whether they come from a single source. The quad above 37 EeV in the 94-event high energy dataset can be analyzed without considering magnetic dispersion. The probability that it is a chance association is 10. Assuming the source is continuous, the random magnetic deflections these UHECRs accumula...

A collinear photothermal detection bench is described that makes use of a position-modulated heating source instead of the classic power-modulated source. This new modulation scheme increases by almost a factor 2 the sensitivity of a standard mirage bench. This bench is then used to measure the absorption coefficient of OH-free synthetic fused silica at 1064 nm in the parts per 10(6) range, whi...

In this paper we describe a machine translation prototype in which we use only minimal resources for both the source and the target language. A shallow source language analysis, combined with a translation dictionary and a mapping system of source language phenomena into the target language and a target language corpus for generation are all the resources needed in the described system. Several...

In this Letter, we demonstrate quantitative phase imaging of biological samples, such as human red blood cells (RBCs) and onion cells using narrow temporal frequency and wide angular frequency spectrum light source. This type of light source was synthesized by the combined effect of spatial, angular, and temporal diversity of speckle reduction technique. The importance of using low spatial and ...

Epidemiologic studies utilizing source apportionment (SA) of fine particulate matter have shown that particles from certain sources might bemore detrimental to health than others; however, it is difficult to quantify the uncertainty associated with a given SA approach. In the present study, we examined associations between source contributions of fine particulate matter and emergency department...

in this study 152 bacterial strains were isolated from the contaminated oils in the southwest of iran. hemolysis was used as a criterion for the primary  isolation of biosurfactant producing-bacteria. fifty five strains had haemolytic activity , among them tweleve strains were good biosurfactant producers by measuring surface tension and emulsification activity.two microorganism showed the high...

An English entity linking (EL) workflow is presented, which combines the annotations of five public open source EL services. The annotations are combined through a weighted voting scheme inspired by the ROVER method, which had not been previously tested on EL outputs. The combined results improved over each individual system’s results, as evaluated on four different golden sets.

Information about the impending collision of an approaching object can be specified by visual and auditory means. We examined the discrimination thresholds for vision, audition, and vision/audition combined, in the processing of time-to-collision (TTC) of an approaching object. The stimulus consisted of a computer simulated car approaching on a flat ground towards the participants which disappe...

In this paper a method based on the excitation source information is proposed for enhancement of speech, degraded by speech from other speakers. Speech from multiple speakers is simultaneously collected over two spatially distributed microphones. Time-delay of each speaker with respect to the two microphones is estimated using the excitation source information. A weight function is derived for ...