This paper describes how the phase, obtained by Gabor filtering an image, can be used to aggregate related Gabor elements (simple features identified by peaks in the Gabor magnitude). This phase-based feature grouping simplifies the perennial problem of target/background segmentation because we need to only determine if the aggregate feature is target or background, rather than determine the st...

Numerous studies on regional variations of French sentence intonation have been conducted for some time, even before any phonological description of intonation was available. These studies are therefore characterized by a strong phonetic bias, leading researchers to gather large sets of experimental data, which once statistically organized, would give an empirical account of intonational differ...

An acoustically invariant one-word segment occurred in two versions of one syntactic context. In one version, the preceding intonation contour indicated that a stress would fall at the point where this word occurred. In the other version, the preceding contour predicted reduced stress at that point. Reaction time to the initial phoneme of the word was faster in the former case, despite the fact...

We propose a new discrimination schema for illocutionary acts using prosodic features based on experimental results.We performed a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to identify the sentence type and intonation contour of given stimuli. Given the transcribed sentence with contextual information, the subjects were able to identify correctly the sentence type of 85% of 290 sentenc...

A logarithmic residue is a contour integral of the (left or right) logarithmic derivative of an analytic Banach algebra valued function. Logarithmic residues are intimately related to sums of idempotents. The present paper is concerned with logarithmic residues and sums of idempotents in the Banach algebra generated by the compact operators and the identity in the case when the underlying Banac...

In this study, otolith morphology and otolith contour from big-scale sand smelt, Atherina boyeri were analyzed in Lake Eğirdir and Lake İznik (natural lakes), and Hirfanlı Dam Lake (artificial lake). The otolith contour and sixteen otolith morphological characters such as width, depth, shape, sulcus acusticus shape, ostium, cauda, rostrum size-shape, and thickness, antirostrum size-shape, and t...

In this study, otolith morphology and otolith contour from big-scale sand smelt, Atherina boyeri were analyzed in Lake Eğirdir and Lake İznik (natural lakes), and Hirfanlı Dam Lake (artificial lake). The otolith contour and sixteen otolith morphological characters such as width, depth, shape, sulcus acusticus shape, ostium, cauda, rostrum size-shape, and thickness, antirostrum size-shape, and t...

Introduction: The utility and discriminatory pattern of the clock face drawing test in ADHD is unclear. This study therefore compared Clock Face Drawing test performance in children with ADHD and controls. Methods: 95 school children with ADHD and 191 other children were matched for gender ratio and age. ADHD symptoms severities were assessed using DSM-IV ADHD checklist and their intellectua...

A noise synthesis method with no external connotation is proposed. By creating atoms with random width, onset-time and frequency, most external connotations are avoided. The further addition of a frequency distribution corresponding to the perceptual Bark frequency, and a spectrum corresponding to the equalloudness contour for a given phon level further removes the synthesis from the common sig...