An experimental study was conducted to suppress the unsteady vortex shedding from a circular cylinder by using a traveling wave wall (TWW). The leeward surfaces of the circular cylinder model were replaced by wave surfaces, which can move to form symmetrical TWW when driven by a motor system. The propagation speed of the wave was adjustable by controlling the rotational speed of the motor. Duri...

We present a perturbation model that can modify the acoustic features of neutral speech in order to synthesize focus for certain words. In doing so, we can generate expressive speech output that highlights important speech segments to attract the listener’s attention. The ultimate objective is to synthesize corrective feedback in a computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) system. This work ...

An asymptotic representation of low-frequency dynamic tides in close binaries is developed. The dynamic tides are treated as low-frequency, linear, isentropic, forced oscillations of a non-rotating spherically symmetric star. The asymptotic representation is developed to the second order in the forcing frequency. For the sake of simplification, the star is assumed to be everywhere in radiative ...

Advances in data mining techniques have raised growing concerns about privacy of personal information. Organizations that use their customers’ records in data mining activities are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. A common practice for many organizations today is to remove the identity-reated attributes from customer records before releasing them to dat...

Turbidity, DLS and FTIR measurements in combination with the perturbation correlation moving window (PCMW) technique and 2D correlation spectroscopy (2Dcos) analysis have been utilized to investigate the LCST-type transition of a oligo ethylene glycol acrylate-based copolymer (POEGA) in aqueous solutions in this work. As demonstrated in turbidity and DLS curves, the macroscopic phase separation...

in this paper, we consider the inhomogeneous time-fractional nonlinear fisher equation with three known boundary conditions. we first apply a modified homotopy perturbation method for translating the proposed problem to a set of linear problems. then we use the separation variables  method to solve obtained problems. in examples, we illustrate that by right choice of source term in the modified...

Critical long surface waves forced by locally distributed external pressure applied on the freesurface in channels of arbitrary cross section are studied in this paper. The fluid under consideration isinviscid and has constant density. The upstream flow is uniform and the upstream velocity is assumedto be near critical, i.e., uo = u c + e2 + 0(e2), where 0 < e ~ 1 and u c is...

In this paper we investigate the role of contours and junctions in the perception of single-plane achromatic transparency. In order to measure the accuracy with which observers encode transparency, a six-luminance stimulus was employed in which the figural properties could be easily manipulated. Accuracy was measured by requiring subjects to select (either by the method of adjustment or by usin...

State-of-the-art deep NLP models have achieved impressive improvements on many tasks. However, they are found to be vulnerable some perturbations. Before widely adopted, the fundamental issues of robustness need addressed. In this paper, we design a enhancement method defend against word substitution perturbation, whose basic idea is fight perturbation with perturbation. We find that: although ...

We study perturbations of a class of analytic two-dimensional autonomous systems with perturbations depending periodically on time; for instance one can imagine a periodically driven or forced system with one degree of freedom. In the first part of the paper, we revisit a problem considered by Chow and Hale on the existence of subharmonic solutions. In the analytic setting, under more general (...