language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

It has been proposed that the order in which words are prepared for production depends on speaker’s language. When producing translation equivalent of small cat, speakers German or Dutch select gender-marked determiner at a relatively early stage production. Speakers French Italian postpone encoding adjective until phonological form noun is available. Hence, even though produced same (e.g., die...

By taking into account both quantum mechanical and general relativistic effects, I derive an equation that describes limitations on the measurability of space-time distances as defined by a material reference system. OUTP-96-09-P February 1996

BACKGROUND Effective clinical practice guidelines should improve clinical outcomes, and measures of physician use of clinical practice guidelines should correlate with improved outcomes. This study translates a clinical practice guideline on heart failure into review criteria to measure physician performance and the effectiveness of the clinical practice guideline. METHODS A panel of 11 famil...

In this technical report, the systematic investigation of lattice-valued possibilistic measures, opened in the first part of this report (cf. Technical Report No. 952, ICS AS CR, December 2005) is pursued and focused towards possibilistic variants of the notions of outer (upper) and lower (inner) possibilistic measures induced by a given partial possibilistic measure. The notion of Lebesgue mea...

A wide range of metrology processes are involved in the manufacture of large products. In addition to the traditional tool setting and product verification operations increasingly flexible metrology enabled automation is also being used. Faced with many possible measurement problems and a very large number of metrology instruments, employing diverse technologies, the selection of the appropriat...

The well-known Conley’s theorem states that the complement of chain recurrent set equals the union of all connecting orbits of the flow φ on the compact metric space X , i.e. X − CR(φ) = ⋃ [B(A) − A], where CR(φ) denotes the chain recurrent set of φ, A stands for an attractor and B(A) is the basin determined by A. In this paper we show that by appropriately selecting the definition of random at...