The authors examined word skipping in reading in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, skipping rates were higher for a preview of a predictable word than for a visually similar nonword, indicating there is full recognition in parafoveal vision. In Experiment 2, foveal load was manipulated by varying the frequency of the word preceding either a 3-letter target word or a misspelled preview. There was ...

high speed trains are an indispensable part of rapid transportation systems in many countries. as the fastest means of transport on the ground, these trains are extremely sensitive to the terrain and track conditions. geometrical irregularities and mechanical characteristics of the track, together with inconsistencies in the lane (including bridges that support the track) are considered importa...

Abstract Inspired by the phenomenon of stone-skipping in life, problem continuous water-skipping trans-media vehicles is widely concerned, which characterized multiphase flow-solid coupling, dynamic boundary, liquid surface fragmentation and high impact loads. Based on Moving Particle Semi-implicit numerical method, this paper investigates disc’s motion characteristics variation, focusing influ...

While the advertisements shown by television stations pay for the content that the stations provide, most of us would rather not watch them. This paper describes a system called mythcomm that attempts to make removing them easy through a visualization. We want to do this quickly, since it would be as worthwhile to simply watch the commercials if it took too long. Mythcomm takes advantage of the...

A DC-to-DC converter for applications involving a source with widely varying voltage conditions with loads requiring constant voltage from full load down to no load is presented. The switching regulator considered is a Buck converter with Pulse Skipping Modulation control whereby pulses applied to the switch are blocked or released on output voltage crossing a predetermined value. Results of th...

Reduced switching loss favours Pulse Skipping Modulation mode of switching dc-to-dc converters at light loads. Under certain conditions the converter operates in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Inductor current starts from zero in each switching cycle as the switching frequency is constant and not adequately high. A DC-to-DC buck converter is modelled and simulated in this paper under DCM....

Modeling and simulation results of a pulse skipping modulated buck converter for applications involving a source with widely varying voltage conditions with loads requiring constant voltage from full load down to no load is presented. The pulses applied to the switch are blocked or released on output voltage crossing a predetermined value. The regulator worked satisfactorily over a wide input v...

Biomechanical analyses on lumbar spine under compressive load and flexion torque were performed using a nonlinear three-dimensional finite element method to evaluate the stability of artificial disc replacement. We prepared a validated intact lumbar L4-L5 motion segment and artificial disc inserted motion segment by replacing intact disc with the artificial disc which is being developed. Effect...

This paper describes a system for retrieving relevant portions of complete broadcast news shows starting with only the audio data. A novel system of automatically detecting and removing commercials is described and shown to increase the performance of the system whilst also reducing the computational effort required. The sophisticated large vocabulary speech recogniser which produces the high-q...