Neutralization of Acidic Sulfur Species by Calcite in Mineral Aerosols Collected in China and Japan Studied by Ca K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure Spectroscopy X-ray absorption near-edge structure studies at the calcium K-edge have been used to show that acidic sulfur species in the atmosphere (e.g., H2SO4), mainly released by human activities, can be neutralized by the calcite prese...

Static-semantics determines the validity of a program, while a type-checker provides more speciic type error information. Type-checkers are speciied based on the static semantics speciication, for the purpose of identifying and presenting type errors in invalid programs. We discuss a style of algebraically specifying the static semantics of a language which facilitates automatic generation of a...

Codeswitching between different languages is often likened to style-shifting within a single language (c.f. Gumperz 1982, Myers-Scotton 1993, Ervin-Tripp 2001, Schilling-Estes 2001), yet the two phenomena are generally investigated separately and in studies that fall into different linguistic subfields. This paper compares style-shifting and codeswitching in the same setting, drawing on a data ...

An important task of pattern recognition is identifying or synthesizing stylistic variations on a signal independently of its underlying content [Omohundro 1995; Hofstadter 1995; Tenenbaum and Freeman 2000; Brand and Hertzmann 2000; Rose et al. 1998]. For example, one may want to differentiate stylistic variations in handwriting from the underlying content, or letters. We study this problem for...

Branched covering Riemann surfaces C, f are studied, where f is the Euler Gamma function and the Riemann Zeta function. For both of them fundamental domains are found and the group of cover transformations is revealed. In order to find fundamental domains, preimages of the real axis are taken and a thorough study of their geometry is performed. The technique of simultaneous continuation, introd...

A common concern regarding cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) schemes is the occupied bandwidth and the energy consumption during the transmissions of sensing information to the fusion center over the reporting control channels. This concern is intensified if the number of cooperating secondary users in the network is large. This article presents a new fusion strategy for a CSS scheme, aiming a...

The author has developed an application in MATLAB implementing concatenative sound synthesis (CSS) using feature matching. CSS is a process of combining short pieces of recorded sound to construct new sonic forms. Historically, CSS was developed for text-tospeech synthesis, but recently it has been explored as a musical sound synthesis method. The results have been called ‘musaics,’ the sonic a...