Entrainment has played a crucial role in analyzing marital couples interactions. In this work, we introduce a novel technique for quantifying vocal entrainment based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The entrainment measure, as we define in this work, is the amount of preserved variability of one interlocutor’s speaking characteristic when projected onto representing space of the other’s s...

The inter-group entrainment study by Lucas, Clayton, and Leante (2011) is an interesting research report that advances studies in both empirical ethnomusicology and entrainment research in several ways, and provides an important addition to the much needed empirical case studies on musical entrainment. I submit that the authors’ analysis of an instant of resistance to entrainment is a key demon...

The Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front (TZCF) is a dynamic region of elevated chlorophyll concentrations in the Northeast Pacific that migrates from southern winter (February) extent approximately 30°N to northern summer (August) 40°N. transition zone has been highlighted as important habitat for marine animals and fisheries. We re-examine physical biological drivers seasonal TZCF variability us...

The end of winter stratification within the cold cyclonic trough of the Weddell gyre near 60øS between 5øE and the Greenwich meridian is resolved with the Mikhail Somov data set. The temperature maximum of the Weddell Deep Water (WDW) is, for the most part, less than 0.5øC, but warmer cells of WDW are found. These warm WDW cells have temperature, salinity, and oxygen properties similar to the W...

Properties of the transition to strong deep convection, as previously observed in satellite precipitation statistics, are analyzed using parcel stability computations and a convective plume velocity equation. A set of alternative entrainment assumptions yields very different characteristics of the deep convection onset boundary (here measured by conditional instability and plume vertical veloci...

The timing of slow auditory cortical activity aligns to the rhythmic fluctuations in speech. This entrainment is considered to be a marker of the prosodic and syllabic encoding of speech, and has been shown to correlate with intelligibility. Yet, whether and how auditory cortical entrainment is influenced by the activity in other speech-relevant areas remains unknown. Using source-localized MEG...

[1] Turbulent entrainment‐mixing mechanisms are investigated by applying a combined approach to the aircraft measurements of three drizzling and two nondrizzling stratocumulus clouds collected over the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains site during the March 2000 cloud Intensive Observation Period. Microphysical analysis shows that the inhomogene...

In human–human interactions, entrainment is a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens when interlocutors mutually adapt their behaviors through the course of an interaction. This mutual behavioral dependency has been at the center of psychological studies of human communication for decades. Quantitative descriptors of the degree of entrainment can provide psychologists an objective method t...

In this study, the effect of a scale-aware convective parameterization scheme (CPS) on simulation heavy precipitation in gray-zone was investigated using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. We performed WRF simulations with Kain–Fritsch (KF) (non-scale-aware), Multiscale (MSKF) (scale-aware), explicit convection (i.e., no CPS). The MSKF uses parameter that modulates available potentia...