Previous studies have shown that spoken-language processing is inhibited by violation of obligatory regressive assimilation. Weber (2001) replicated this inhibitory effect in a phoneme-monitoring study examining regressive place assimilation of nasals, but found facilitation for violation of progressive assimilation. German listeners detected the velar fricative [x] more quickly when fricative ...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

predicting the quality of water and air is a particular challenge for forecasting systems that support them. in order to represent the small-scale phenomena, a high-resolution model needs accurate capture of air and sea circulations, significant for forecasting environmental pollution. data assimilation is one of the state of the art methods to be used for this purpose. due to the importance of...

In this article I utilise critical discourse analysis to investigate the discursive practices evident in the Gillard Government’s 2011 ‘Closing the Gap’ speech. The speech is interpreted as a performative activity which normalises the racialised privilege/disadvantage divide in contemporary Australia by framing this divide as meritocratic. Inherently contradictory discourses are used to positio...

A B S T R A C T Time-stepping schemes in ocean–atmosphere models can involve multiple time levels. Traditional data assimilation implementation considers only the adjustment of the current state using observations available, i.e. the one time level adjustment. However, one time level adjustment introduces an inconsistency between the adjusted and unadjusted states into the model time integratio...

We investigated the role of transparency, perceptual grouping, and presentation time on perceived lightness. Both transparency and perceptual grouping have been found to result in assimilation effects, but only for ambiguous stimulus displays and with specific attentional instructions. By varying the presentation times of displays with two partly overlapping transparent E-shaped objects, we mea...

In the context of China's clean air policy, meteorological impacts on improved particulate matter (PM2.5) quality during 2016–2019 are investigated based a four-year high-resolution atmospheric composition reanalysis data-set, which has been produced by Joint Data Assimilation System to resolve long-term fine-scale variability over China. The assimilates surface observations using Weather Resea...

Urban systems emerge as distinct entities from the complex interactions among social, economic and cultural attributes, and information, energy and material stocks and flows that operate on different temporal and spatial scales. Such complexity poses a challenge to identify the causes of urban environmental problems and how to address them without causing greater deterioration. Planning has tra...

-One of the major health policies in the People’s Republic of China since the Communist Revolution in 1949 has been an unique effort to integrate Chinese Traditional and Western-style medicine. Mao Tse-tung called l’or a ‘United Front’ of the two medical approaches for reasons of cultural pride. economic necessity and political obligation. An analyses of this policy is presented combining previ...