Despite the copious advances in acoustic techniques and devices for measuring and displaying acoustic parameters, a steady component of a phonetician’s scientific method remains to be – to this very day – our hearing. This paper therefore focuses on a historical device shared between acoustics and auditory phonetic analysis: Rudolph Koenig’s Grand Tonometre, consisting of more than a hundred tu...

visualization of the original scene Figure 4.9 shows an abstract depiction of the original scene. For the purpose of task decomposition we introduce five virtual points P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, which will serve as intermediate positions of the trajectories of the robot hand (see below). Generally, these positions are represented in the coordinate system of the robot arm which is attached at the stat...

Josef Penninger, the new director of the planned Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, tells Graham Tebb of hurdles but high hopes he has for shaping a new kind of institution in Austria.

On May 24, 2006 a farewell ceremony for our teacher, colleague and friend Josef Král was held in the Church of St.Wenceslas in Pečky. He died on May 13, 2006, before his seventy-fifth birthday. Josef Král was an outstanding mathematician, exceptional teacher, model husband and father, and above all, a man of extraordinary human qualities. The results of his research place him among the most imp...

The evolution of multiple scalar fields in cosmology has been much studied, particularly when the potential is formed from a series of exponentials. For a certain subclass of such systems it is possible to get “assisted“ behaviour, where the presence of multiple terms in the potential effectively makes it shallower than the individual terms indicate. It is also known that when compactifying on ...

This paper studies the effects of the earnings test on retirement behavior. The earnings tests of most social security systems tax post-retirement earnings at a relatively high level and do not lead to actuarially fair increases in future benefits. This results in discouragement of partial retirement. The paper shows that a reduction in the earnings test's tax rate is likely to increase part-ti...

Let R be a non empty poset and let A, B be many sorted sets indexed by R. One can check that every many sorted relation between A and B which is os-compatible is also order-sorted. Let R be a non empty poset and let A be a many sorted set indexed by the carrier of R. An order sorted relation of A is an order sorted relation of A, A. Let S be an order sorted signature and let U1 be an order sort...

Let I be a set, let f be a many sorted set indexed by I, and let p be a finite sequence of elements of I. Observe that f · p is finite sequence-like. Let S be a non empty many sorted signature. A sort symbol of S is an element of S. Let S be a non empty many sorted signature. An operation symbol of S is an element of the operation symbols of S. Let S be a non void non empty many sorted signatur...