Two experiments establish constraints on the ability of a common fundamental frequency (F0) to perceptually fuse low-pass filtered and complementary high-pass filtered speech presented to different ears. In experiment 1 the filter cut-off is set at 1 kHz. When the filters are sharp, giving little overlap in frequency between the two sounds, listeners report hearing two sounds even when the soun...

Compared with recirculation and injection modes, once-through direct steam generation (DSG) parabolic troughs are simpler to construct and require the lowest investment. However, the heat transfer fluid (HTF) in once-through DSG parabolic trough systems has the most complicated dynamic behavior, particularly during periods of moving shadows caused by small clouds and jet contrails. In this pape...

We conduct experiments on two-dimensional packings of colloidal thermosensitive hydrogel particles whose packing fraction can be tuned above the jamming transition by varying the temperature. By measuring displacement correlations between particles, we extract the vibrational properties of a corresponding "shadow" system with the same configuration and interactions, but for which the dynamics o...

Cloud-related shadows represent areas with low illumination conditions that affect remote sensing image quality. In this research, a wavelet-based image sharpening algorithm was developed to enhance shadow areas independently using the defected cloudy image information. The developed algorithm is applied locally by boosting the image high frequency content in the shadow areas using the defected...

Shadow banking is a term that came out of the financial crisis of 2007-2009. There is a belief that shadow banking was one of the crisis reasons. Because the excessive expansion of shadow banking endangers the financial stability of countries, this paper examines the impact of shadow banking on financial stability using data from 14 countries of the G20 during 2002-2018. We divided countries in...

background: exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields is increasingly common, but the potential influence on pregnant women has not been thoroughly investigated. methods: in this case-control study, 58 women who had an unexplained spontaneous abortion at < 14 weeks gestation and 58 matched pregnant women >14 weeks gestation were enrolled in 2012. the women completed the questio...

introduction: the present study investigated the interactive effect of gabab receptors and extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (elf-emf) on foot shock-induced aggression in rats. methods: fifty adult male rats were randomly assigned into 10 groups. groups 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 were exposed to 50 hz, 500 µt elf-emf for 30 days 8h per day while the remaining groups (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) were s...

The apparent angular size of the shadow a black hole in an expanding Universe is redshift-dependent. Since cosmological redshifts change with time - known as redshift drift all redshift-dependent quantities acquire time-dependence, and fortiori so do shadows. We find mathematical description show that amplitude this effect order $10^{-16}$ per day for M87$^{\star}$. While small, we argue its no...

spectral decomposition is a powerful tool for analysis of seismic data. fourier transform determines the frequency contents of a signal. but for analysis of non-stationary signals, 1-d transform to frequency domain is not sufficient. in early years, transforming of seismic traces into time and frequency domain was done via windowed fourier transform, called a short time fourier transform (stft)...