In 1960, J. J. Gibson reviewed technical uses of the term stimulus and found that it did not have a consistent agreed-upon definition, but instead connoted several diVerent conceptions of ‘‘stimulating’’ an organism. Most of those conceptions did, however, have a property also found in the word’s original uses: A stimulus is a temporally discrete, momentary happening in the life of an organism....

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Schwa deletion is an important issue in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for IndoAryan languages (IAL). In this paper, we describe a syllable minimization based algorithm for dealing with this that outperforms the existing methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The algorithm is motivated by the fact that deletion of schwa is a diachronic and sociolinguistic phenomenon that facilitates faste...

This article describes a model for developing diabetes coalitions in rural Appalachian counties and presents evidence of their sustainability. The rural Appalachian coalition model was developed through a partnership between two federal agencies and a regional university. Coalitions go through a competitive application process to apply for one-time $10,000 grants. The project has funded 7 to 9 ...

In this article, we study the division of a non-laminar Savart sheet into individual jets by mean local disturbances. We paint precise portrait free formed vertical impact jet on horizontal disk, its evolution in air and break up. then generate disturbances, outside disk circumference, triggered N radial triangular prisms placed directly sheet. show that, under given flow conditions geometrical...