The human tongue is an important organ for speech production. Its deformation and motion control the shape of the vocal tract significantly and thereby the acoustic properties of the speech signal produced. Thus, much effort in the speech research community has been directed towards its biomechanical modeling. A common assumption incorporated into many models of the human tongue is the tissue i...

Let F be an arbitrary field. Let A be a central simple F -algebra. Let G be the algebraic group AutA of automorphisms of A. Let XA be the class of finite direct products of projective G-homogeneous F -varieties (the class XA includes the generalized Severi-Brauer varieties of the algebra A). Let p be a positive prime integer. For any variety in XA, we determine its canonical dimension at p. In ...

We show that the conjectural criterion of p -incompressibility for products of projective homogeneous varieties in terms of the factors, previously known in a few special cases only, holds in general. Actually, the proof goes through for a wider class of varieties which includes the norm varieties associated to symbols in Galois cohomology of arbitrary degree. Let F be a field. A smooth complet...

We show the usefulness of incompressibility arguments based on Kolmogorov complexity in physics of computation by several examples. These include analysis of energy parsimoniousàdiabatic' computation , and scalability of network architectures.

Extraction of bulk nuclear properties by comparing reaction observables to results from semiclassical transport-model simulations is discussed. Specific properties include the nuclear viscosity, incompressibility and constraints on the nuclear pressure at supranormal densities.

(1) Introduction.-In this paper, the values of variables at the base of the mantle and top of the core in the Earth models to be considered will be indicated by the subscripts 1 and 2, respectively; k and p will denote the incompressibility and density; let Ak = k2ki and Ap = p2 pi. In an earlier Earth model,1 Model A, k1 = 6.5 X 1012 dyn/cm2 and k2 = 6.2 X 1012 dyn/cm2, giving Ak = -0.3 X 1012...