In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in the neural basis of music perception, action and emotion, the majority of previous studies in this area have focused on the auditory aspects of music performances. Here we investigate how the brain processes the emotions elicited by audiovisual music performances. We used event-related functional m...

This thesis presents a collection of theoretical and experimental investigations into various geometrical aspects of hybrid laser-MIG welding. The work is divided up into four parts; 1. A review of the hybrid laser-MIG welding technique with brief summaries of the three papers which make up the remainder of the thesis. 2. A paper entitled “Fundamental analysis of hybrid laser-MIG welding”. This...

∗ This work was partially supported by Michigan State University IRGP Grant 41114 and by Hong Kong RGC Grant HKUST6161/03E. AbstractPeer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are self-organized and decentralized. However, the mechanism of a peer randomly joining and leaving a P2P network causes topology mismatching between the P2P logical overlay network and the physical underlying network. The topology mismat...

Underwater wet welding is one of the most common repair measures for corroded offshore steel structures. Few studies have been carried out systematically concerned with mechanical properties of such welds, thus current design provisions rely heavily on limited experimental data on welds made underwater and design properties for corresponding welds made in air. This paper presents a series of ex...

The radiography technique (RT) used in non-destructive testing (NDT) of welds has evolved rapidly in recent decades and has become an established technology in the field of weld assessment. RT is widely used as an inspection tool for detecting flaws inside welded structures, pressure vessels, structural members and pipelines(1). Most radiographic exposures and film interpretations in RT are sti...

8- and 14-month-old infants' perceptual sensitivity to vowel duration conditioned by post-vocalic consonantal voicing was examined. Half the infants heard CVC stimuli with short vowels, and half heard stimuli with long vowels. In both groups, stimuli with voiced and voiceless final consonants were compared. Older infants showed significant sensitivity to mismatching vowel duration and consonant...

This paper summarises fatigue tests on Y-joints to estimate the influence of a post weld treatment method called Ultrasonic Impact Treatment. With this method the fatigue resistance could be increased significantly. Furthermore, tubular joints of tripod structures for offshore wind energy converters are analysed with numerical simulations to judge these welded joints with the hot-spot-concept. ...