ntroduction: One of the authors (EH) practised the MORA bioresonance concept since 1984. In this investigation the therapeutic effectiveness as assessed. Therefore treatments of 935 patients were evaluated afterwards and not selected in the period of 1998–2008 including the drop outs. atients and methods: The patients were resistant to conventional therapeutic efforts. They are suffering from d...

This study examined the production of English lexical stress by Japanese speakers to determine which acoustic features associated with English lexical stress are difficult for Japanese speakers to acquire. Realization of lexical accent differs between languages. English is a stress-accent language where the accent is expressed by a combination of pitch, duration, intensity and vowel quality (Fr...

Wemake statistical investigations of various speech corpora to extract useful information re ecting the contents of the corpus so that we can create a sort of guidelines for selecting the most suitable corpus. A word is not separated by spaces in the Japanese text. Accordingly, we adopt n-gram counting methods to extract frequent mora sequences instead of words. A mora roughly corresponds to a ...

Protein expression monitoring can be a good tool to determine disease onset and progression, and is also used in drug discovery and investigational science (1–4). However, commonly used assays lack the sensitivity and specificity required for the detection of low-abundance proteins (5,6). Several signal amplification technologies have been designed and applied to protein detection assays, inclu...

Co-speech hand gestures are a type of multimodal input that has received relatively little attention in the context of second language learning. The present study explored the role that observing and producing different types of gestures plays in learning novel speech sounds and word meanings in an L2. Naïve English-speakers were taught two components of Japanese-novel phonemic vowel length con...

The traditional model of contour tone distribution (see, e.g., Hyman 2003) uses phonological units to describe which syllable types can bear rising or falling tones (see Zhang 2004 for an overview). A common pattern is one in which contour tones are permitted on long vowels but not on short vowels; this is explained in the traditional model by assuming that the mora is the tone-bearing unit (TB...