A within-participants experiment was conducted in two countries (the UK and Colombia) in order to investigate the matching of shapes to taste words. Comparing the two countries allowed us to explore some of the cultural differences that have been reported thus far solely in terms of people's visual preferences. In particular, we addressed the question of whether properties other than angularity...

The sharp-angled (presence of an acute ridge) or rounded (absence of an acute ridge) transition of the ventral and dorsal shell surfaces is the “key feature” for the distinction of Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena rostriformis. However, up to now it has not been possible to put this into a quantifiable framework. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a method, which (i) facilitates ...

Using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), which provides a unified framework for factorization, resummation of logarithms, and incorporation of universal nonperturbative functions in hard-scattering QCD cross-sections, we present a new prediction of angularity distributions in e+e− annihilation. Angularities τa are an infinite class of event shapes which vary in their sensitivity to the sub...

Interpreting how far organisms within fossil assemblages may have been transported and if they all originated from the same location is fundamental to understanding whether they represent true palaeocommunities. In a three-factorial experimental design, we used an annular flume to generate actualistic sandy sediment-density flows that were fast (2 ms-1) and fully turbulent in order to test the ...

Three experiments investigated the route-angularity effect, which is demonstrated when a greater number of turns along a route increases the estimated length. So far, a route-angularity effect has not been demonstrated in school-age children. Because of the lack of a developmental theory, this finding could only be explained by a minor control of environmental features or by the experimental de...

Skeleton is an important 1-D descriptor of polygon and a useful tool for advanced geometric algorithms. However the skeleton that most existing algorithms investigated is the longest one, which is not intended in all circumstances. This paper proposes an algorithm for extracting hierarchically optimal skeleton network of polygons. The algorithm incorporates length, angularity and area of associ...

Previous research has demonstrated that typefaces can convey meaning over-and-above the actual semantic content of whatever happens to be written. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that people match basic taste words (sweet, sour, salty, and bitter) to typefaces varying in their roundness versus angularity. In Experiment 1, the participants matched rounder typefaces with the word "sweet,"...

Using the framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), we factorize and calculate e+e− angularity distributions, including perturbative resummation and the incorporation of a universal model for the nonperturbative soft function. Angularities τa are a class of event shapes varying in their sensitivity to the substructure of jets in the final state, controlled by a continuous parameter a...

the accuracy of stereolithography (sl) product is very essential for meeting the intended functional applications. the parameters like layer thickness, hatch spacing, hatch overcure contribute significantly to the accuracy of the sl parts. in this paper an attempt has been made to identify the process parameters that influences on the accuracy of the parts made with ciba tool 5530 and optimize ...