An ongoing issue in phonology is how highand low-mid vowels are represented in the mental lexicon. The current study is the first to neurophsyiologically investigate whether the privative feature [ATR] or the privative feature [RTR] should be used to distinguish the French front unrounded high-mid vowel [e] and the front unrounded low-mid vowel [ɛ], that is, which feature is the dominant value ...

This paper describes the design and simulation of the new Ɛ negative metamaterial unit cell structure and then the unit cells are combined to form 3D array which use as metamaterial cover with a single microstrip patch antenna. The new Ɛ negative metamaterial is based on the ELC resonator structure, which is used for obtaining the negative value of permittivity and positive value of permeabilit...

A bioactive composite of nano calcium-deficient apatite (n-CDAP) with an atom molar ratio of calcium to phosphate (Ca/P) of 1.50 and poly(ɛ-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL-PEG-PCL) was synthesized, and a composite scaffold was fabricated. The composite scaffolds with 40 wt% n-CDAP contained well interconnected macropores around 400 μm, and exhibited a porosity of 7...

We consider the asymptotic behavior as ɛ goes to zero of 2D smectics model in periodic setting given by Eɛ(w)=12∫T21ɛ∂1−1∂2w−∂112w22+ɛ∂1w2dx.We show that energy Eɛ(w) controls suitable Lp and Besov norms w use this demonstrate existence minimizers for Eɛ(w), which has not been proved before, compactness an energy-bounded sequence. also prove lower bound ɛ→0 means entropy argument.

This paper investigates production of the mid vowels /e, ɛ, ø, œ, o, ɔ/ by four speakers of New Caledonian French (NCF). Formant and durational properties of these vowels are examined with respect to the type of syllable in which they occur. Results point to general adherence to the loi de position in NCF, such that the close-mid vowels occur in open syllables and the open-mid vowels occur in c...

The Zagreb eccentricity indices are the eccentricity reformulation of the Zagreb indices. Let H be a simple graph. The first Zagreb eccentricity index (E1(H)) is defined to be the summation of squares of the eccentricity of vertices, i.e., E1(H) = ∑u∈V(H) Symmetry 2016, 9, 7; doi: 10.3390/sym9010007 www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry Article First and Second Zagreb Eccentricity Indices of Thorny Gra...