When interpreting our perceptual world, information from multiple perceptual modalities is often associated. Such crossmodal associations can arise from innate structural connections in the brain, statistical correlations in the environment, or through language. In a large group of participants across a wide age range and language background, we tested crossmodal associations between pitch and ...

In this study, we present the use of C60 as an active spacer material on a silver (Ag) based surface plasmon coupled emission (SPCE) platform. In addition to its primary role of protecting the Ag thin film from oxidation, the incorporation of C60 facilitated the achievement of a 30-fold enhancement in the emission intensity of rhodamine B (RhB) fluorophore. The high signal yield was attributed ...

This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of optimizing multiple characteristics of electrical discharge machining (EDM) of Inconel 718 using copper electrodes having different shapes via Taguchi method-based Grey analysis. The modified algorithm adopted here is used successfully for both detraining the optimum settings of machining parameters and for combining multiple quality characteristic i...

ing from the effects of path angularity and path direction, we suggest that the direct distance between path endpoints is a parsimonious explanation that explains both biases. The meta-analytic test of mean p's across the independent experiments reported in this article yields a mean p of .0165 (z = 4. 1, p < .001, where z = [0.50 mean p][ VI2N] and Nis the number of studies; Edgington 1972; se...

The rules of soft-collinear effective theory can be used naı̈vely to write hard scattering cross-sections as convolutions of separate hard, jet, and soft functions. We describe an intuitive method to determine, at a given order in perturbation theory, whether these functions are truly infrared safe or not and, thus, whether or not the cross-sections factorize. Using angularity distributions as a...

Abstract: The present work is conducted to investigate the effect of texture and carbonate content on internal friction angle of carbonate soils. Carbonate soils are majorly found in the bed of shallow waters and also offshores in tropical regions. Recently there is a huge construction projects including oil and gas extraction platform and facilities, harbors, refineries, huge bridges and ot...

The concept of ’line complexity’ is often used in cartography in relation to geometric shape of linear features. The concept is particularly important in automated line generalization. Many measures have been applied over the years in an attempt to describe the shape of irregular one-dimensional features in a quantifiable manner. All of them are narrowly focused on single characteristics of com...

Fifty-two Neolithic tombs (dolmens) were grouped into megalithic stations that are mostly located on lithotecto from which the building rocks were removed. In six dolmens, there were no clues found to explain the presence of allochthonous stones, except perhaps in one of them, where rocks were selected to cause colour contrast. The morphology of the slabs, of chambers and corridors, showed no e...

Visually identifying and estimating properties of materials is critical for many tasks, from reaching for a steaming kettle to walking on a wet marble staircase. From a computational point of view, liquids represent a particularly interesting class of materials because of their highly mutable shapes and physical complexity. The ways liquids move and change shape is affected both by external for...

BK14, BKL17, MMR01]. Acyclic [DGL00, Fra08]. Adaptive [BD05, CL17, EW00]. Advancing [HS02]. Advantages [AAH11]. Aggregate [Wan15]. Aggregate-MAX [Wan15]. Aggregated [GJS09]. Algebraic [CCD06, MS07a, SV01]. Algorithm [AL11, AKM17, ADS00, ACDL02, AFN11, ACM01, BGK09, BL03, BM02, BCHS07, Che10, CER97, DN97, EFKP13, HH12, KYZ14, LSS02, LWŻ12, MMNM07, MS07a, NY98, OGB11, Sha01, SI94, TV01, THI99, TM...