To better understand audiovisual speech processing, we investigated the effects of viewing time-synchronized videos of a 3D tongue avatar on vowel production by healthy individuals. A group of 15 American English-speaking subjects heard pink noise over headphones and produced the word head under four viewing conditions: First, while viewing repetitions of the same vowel, /ɛ/ (baseline phase), t...

Biodegradable polymers can serve as barriers to prevent the post-operative intestinal adhesion. Herein, we synthesized a biodegradable triblock copolymer poly(ɛ-caprolactone-co-lactide)-b-poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(ɛ-caprolactone-co-lactide) (PCLA-PEG-PCLA). The concentrated polymeric aqueous solution was injectable, and a hydrogel could be rapidly formed due to percolation of a self-assemble...

We establish sufficient criteria for the existence of a limit cycle in the Liénard system x[over ̇]=y-ɛF(x),y[over ̇]=-x, where F(x) is odd. In their simplest form the criteria lead to the result that, for all finite nonzero ɛ, the amplitude of the limit cycle is less than ρ and 0≤a≤ρ≤u, where F(a)=0 and ∫(0)(u)F(x)dx=0. We take the van der Pol oscillator as a specific example and establish that ...

An asymptotic study is made of nonlinear effects in steady radiating waves due to moving sources dispersive media. The focus on problems where the radiated have exponentially small amplitude with respect a parameter μ≪1, as for instance free-surface submerged body limit low Froude number. In such settings, weakly (controlled by source strength ɛ) can be important linear propagation μ), and comp...

A critical reconstruction of the development Old High German umlauted vowels sheds light on phonological history various vocalic phonemes and in particular /ɛ/ /e/ as well /ɛ:/ /e:/. The changes that affected two pairs led to different results New Schriftsprache, which today’s beside /e:/ words with “long ä” (e. g. spät) is not an artificial vowel based spelling, but a historical variant behind...

A quantile summary is a data structure that approximates to ε-relative error the order statistics of a much larger underlying dataset. In this paper we develop a randomized online quantile summary for the cash register data input model and comparison data domain model that uses O( ε log 1 ε ) words of memory. This improves upon the previous best upper bound of O( ε log 3/2 1 ε ) by Agarwal et a...

Accurate virial coefficients B_{N}(λ,ɛ) (where ɛ is the well depth) for the three-dimensional square-well and square-step potentials are calculated for orders N=5-9 and well widths λ=1.1-2.0 using a very fast recursive method. The efficiency of the algorithm is enhanced significantly by exploiting permutation symmetry and by storing integrands for reuse during the calculation. For N=9 the stora...