The northward subduction and subsequent exhumation of the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism terrane exposes a tilted coherent crustal section of the overriding North China Block (NCB), providing an opportunity to study three-dimensional structures of the subduction/collision process. Detailed geological mapping and structural measurements on the Liaodong peninsula, located at the southern ma...

Project Information Project Acronym I2S2 Project Title Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences Start Date 1 st Oct 2009 End Date 31 st March 2011 Lead Institution Universities of Bath and Southampton Project Director Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Project Manager & contact details Manjula Patel 01225 386547; [email protected] Partner Institutions Universities of Bath, Southampton, Cambridge; ...

The focus of this paper is on two types of shortening observed in recent Japanese loanwords and on the trochaic shortening in Fijian. I will argue that the Japanese shortenings take place when a metrically unstable binary foot (extrametrical foot) becomes a stray mora so as to be accommodated into one of the two proposed surface ternary foot structures whereas Fijian Trochaic Shortening occurs ...

This paper deals with the treatment of high vowels /i y u/ in Canadian French Text-to-Speech system. Among significant differences in the structure of the vowel system, we focused on two aspects in which high vowels behave quite differently in the two dialects of French: 1) the tenseness rule according to which the three vowels are systematically contrasted by the tense/lax feature in Canadian ...

When native English speakers say active and passive sentences, verb stems are longer in passive sentences than in their active counterparts (Stromswold et al., 2002; Rehrig et al., 2015) because phrase-final lengthening and polysyllabic shortening cause the verb stem vowel to be longer in passives (Aveni et al., 2016; Mayro et al., 2016). Eye-tracking and gating studies of unaltered sentences r...

Clear speaking styles have been demonstrated to enhance certain acoustic-phonetic features of speech. However, previous work on speech production changes has mainly used interactions with imaginary interlocutors or read speech. In this study, two types of altered speech modes were elicited through a new combination of ‘gap’ and ‘map’ tasks, which leads to unscripted dialogues between interlocut...

A common problem of large scale search engines and web spiders is how to handle a huge number of encountered URLs. Traditional search engines and web spiders use hard disk to store URLs without any compression. This results in slow performance and more space requirement. This paper describes a simple URL compression algorithm allowing efficient compression and decompression. The compression alg...

While we applaud PloS’ use of Digital Object Identifi ers (“The What and Whys of DOIs,” PLoS Biol 1: e57 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000057), we also note the lack of provisions in your instructions for authors for preserving access to electronic information residing at a cited Internet addresses via Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Medical and scientifi c literature increasingly cites informat...

Deceitful and malicious web sites pretense significant danger to desktop security, integrity and privacy. Malicious web pages that use drive-by download attacks or social engineering techniques to install unwanted software on a user‘s computer have become the main opportunity for the proliferation of malicious code. Detection of malicious URL has become difficult because of the phishing campaig...

URL usually contains meaningful information for measuring the relevance of a Web page to a query in Web search. Some existing works utilize URL depth priors (i.e. the probability of being a good page given the length and depth of a URL) for improving some types of Web search tasks. This paper suggests the use of the location of query terms occur in a URL for measuring how well a web page is mat...