We present for the ®rst time a statistical study of 350 keV ion events of a magnetospheric origin upstream from Earth's bow shock. The statistical analysis of the 50±220 keV ion events observed by the IMP-8 spacecraft shows: (1) a dawn±dusk asymmetry in ion distributions, with most events and lower intensities upstream from the quasi-parallel pre-dawn side (4 LT± 6 LT) of the bow shock, (2) hig...

In the McGurk effect, visual information specifying a speaker's articulatory movements can influence auditory judgments of speech. In the present study, we attempted to find an analogue of the McGurk effect by using nonspeech stimuli--the discrepant audiovisual tokens of plucks and bows on a cello. The results of an initial experiment revealed that subjects' auditory judgments were influenced s...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Analysis of auditory brainstem response (ABR) in very preterm infants can be difficult owing to the poor detectability of the various components of the ABR. We evaluated the ABR morphology and tried to extend the current assessment system. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS We included 28 preterm very low birth weight infants admitted to the neonatal intens...

Biomass gasification technology has been rapidly developed recently. But fire and poisoning accidents caused by gas leakage restrict the development and promotion of biomass gasification. Therefore, probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) is necessary for biomass gasification system. Subsequently, Bayesian network-bow-tie (BN-bow-tie) analysis was proposed by mapping bow-tie analysis into Bayesia...

Current ecologicalarchaeology,as often practiced, is too closed a system.The realization that introduced external factors may playa role in cultural changeas potently as localizedmechanismsdemands increasedattention to analytical boundaries and matters of scale.This article questions the utility and effectiveness of localizedadaptive explanations for large-scalehistorical processesand, as an il...

Highly organized, universal structures underlying biological and technological networks mediate effective trade-offs among efficiency, robustness and evolvability, with predictable fragilities that can be used to understand disease pathogenesis. The aims of this article are to describe the features of one common organizational architecture in biology, the bow tie. Large-scale organizational fra...

Mechanical and mathematical model of external ballistics of the modern sport bow has been proposed. The force of air drag, shear friction, and drag on the fletching, and the additional force that depends on the angle of attack have been taken into account in the model. The corresponding Cauchy problem was stated and solved using the Runge-Kutta method and the program NDSolve from the software p...

We propose and demonstrate a novel photonic-plasmonic antenna capable of confining electromagnetic radiation at several mid-infrared wavelengths to a single sub-wavelength spot. The structure relies on the coupling between the localized surface plasmon resonance of a bow-tie nanoantenna with the photonic modes of surrounding multi-periodic particle arrays. Far-field measurements of the transmis...

Abstract. In a parameter study extending to jet densities of 10 times the ambient one, I have recently shown that light large scale jets start their lives in a spherical bow shock phase. This allows an easy description of the sideways bow shock propagation in that phase. Here, I present new, bipolar, simulations of very light jets in 2.5D and 3D, reaching the observationally relevant scale of >...

We present a machine learning approach to modeling bowing control parameter contours in violin performance. Using accurate sensing techniques we obtain relevant timbre-related bowing control parameters such as bow transversal velocity, bow pressing force, and bow-bridge distance of each performed note. Each performed note is represented by a curve parameter vector and a number of note classes a...