We study the sonic horizon phenomena of the oscillating Bose-Einstein condensates in isotropic harmonic potential. Based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation model and variational method, we derive the original analytical formula for the criteria and lifetime of the formation of the sonic horizon, demonstrating pictorially the interaction parameter dependence for the occur- rence of the sonic horiz...

PURPOSE To compare the performance of sonic phacoemulsification with that of ultrasonic phacoemulsification in regard to 1-day postoperative visual acuity, corneal edema, and procedure efficiency. SETTING Oregon Eye Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA. METHODS This prospective nonrandomized study comprised 86 eyes with mild to moderate nuclear sclerotic cataract. Forty-three eyes had sonic and 4...

The Sonic Mapper is an interactive Linux-based graphical program that affords increased methodological flexibility and sophistication to researchers who collect proximity data for auditory research. The Sonic Mapper consists of a mapping environment in which participants can position and group icons in the two-dimensional plane of the screen. Options for collecting data concerning hierarchical ...

A variety of electronic sonic toys is available in the market. However, such toys are usually played by pushing buttons which trigger different sampled sounds. In this paper we advocate the possibility of using continuous natural gestures connected with synthesized sounds for the creation of enactive sonic toys. Keywords— sonic toys, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction

This paper describes the design, implementation and outcome of Ground Me!, an interactive sound installation set up in the Sonic Lab of the Sonic Arts Research Centre. The site-specific interactive installation consists of multiple copper poles hanging from the Sonic Lab’s ceiling panels, which trigger samples of electricity sounds when grounded through the visitor's’ body to the space’s metall...

This paper reports on extensions of the Description Logics non-standard inference system Sonic. The recent contributions to the system are two-fold. Firstly, Sonic is extended by two new of non-standard inferences, namely, implementations of the good common subsumer w.r.t. a background terminology and a heuristics for computing a minimal rewriting. Secondly, Sonic is available as a plugin for t...

This paper presents the SONIC reconfigurable computing architecture and the first implementation, SONIC-1. SONIC is designed to support the software plug-in methodology to accelerate video image processing applications. SONIC differs from other architectures through the use of Plug-In Processing Elements (PIPEs) and the Application Programmer’s Interface (API). Each PIPE contains a reconfigurab...