Does training with amplitude modulated tones affect tone-vocoded speech perception? by Aina Casaponsa, Ediz Sohoglu, David R. Moore, Christian Fullgrabe, Katharine Molloy, Sygal Amitay

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On the efficient frequency estimation of a single tone by Zhuo Zhang, Andreas Jakobsson, M.D. Macleod, Jonathon Chambers

“…The frequency estimation of a single tone corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise has received significant attention over the last decades due to its wide applicability in signal processing. …”
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Optimistic disclosure tone and conservative debt policy by Ali Ataullah, Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

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Elevated cardiac vagal tone in hypoestrogenic active premenopausal women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea by Emma ODonnell, Jack M. Goodman, Beverley L. Morris, John S. Floras, Paula J. Harvey

“…Elevated cardiac vagal tone in hypoestrogenic active premenopausal women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea…”
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The use of an artificial neural network for assessing tone perception in electric powertrain noise, vibration and harshness by Marcos Ricardo Souza, Ahmed Haris, Leon Rodrigues, Guenter Offner, Martin Sopouch, Franz Diwoky, Mahdi Mohammad-Pour, Stephanos Theodossiades

“…This framework of combining multibody dynamics simulation with initial acoustic data and neural networks can be also applied to different NVH metrics as appropriate.…”
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The use of an air bubble curtain to reduce the received sound levels for harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by Klaus Lucke, Paul Lepper, Marie-Anne Blanchet, Ursula Siebert

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Imperceptible non-blind watermarking and robustness against tone mapping operation attacks for high dynamic range images by Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Cagri Ozcinar

Subjects: “…Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified…”
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Impaired vascular function in physically active premenopausal women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is associated with low shear stress and increased vascular tone. by Emma ODonnell, Jack M. Goodman, Susanna Mak, Paula J. Harvey

“…METHODS: Three groups were studied: recreationally active ExFHA women (n = 12; 24.2 ± 1.2 years of age; mean ± SEM), and recreationally active (ExOv; n = 14; 23.5 ± 1.2 years of age) and sedentary (SedOv; n = 15; 23.1 ± 0.5 years of age) ovulatory eumenorrheic women. …”
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A conformal leaky-wave antenna design for IoMT-based WBANs by Nasser Montaseri, Zeynab Khodkar, Jamshid Abouei, William Whittow, Konstantinos N Plataniotis

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Time-varying managerial overconfidence and pecking order preference by Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

“…Thus, managerial overconfidence can lead to a reverse pecking order preference. We also find that managerial overconfidence significantly weakens pecking order preference especially in firms with high earnings volatility and small firms.…”
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Corporate financing decisions: the role of managerial overconfidence by Bin Xu

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Time-varying managerial overconfidence and corporate debt maturity structure by Ali Ataullah, Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

“…Overall, our study provides initial evidence for a positive overconfidence-debt maturity relation via overconfidence mitigating the agency cost of long-term debt.…”
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Frequency selectivity in the modulation domain estimated using forward masking: Effects of masker modulation depth and masker-signal delay by Christian Fullgrabe, Aleksander Sęk, Brian CJ Moore

Subjects: “…Amplitude modulation…”
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World-wide survey of school physical education: final report by Ken Hardman, Chris Murphy, Ash Routen, Steve Tones

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Banking efficiency and stock market performance: an analysis of listed Indonesian banks by Muliaman D. Hadad, Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Wimboh Santoso, Ricky Satria, Richard Simper

“…Another interesting finding is that the coefficient for the share of foreign ownership is negative and statistically significant in the super-efficiency modelling. …”
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Grey textile in the Goodwill Collection at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa by Celeste McKenzie

“…The logo features a spiral pattern with warm tones, conveying a sense of continuation or legacy.…”
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Major integrated environmental system for relocation of 540 tanneries in Kolkata City - a biggest environmental project of its kind in Asia by S. Rajanani, E. Ravindranath, S.K. Sarkar, T. Ramasami

“…The tanning industry is one of the oldest and fastest growing industries in South and South East Asia. There are more than 3000 tanneries located in India with a total processing capacity of 700,000 tones of hides and skins per year. …”
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NVH of electric motors - a study on potential NVH metric by Marcos Ricardo Souza, Mahdi Mohammad-Pour, Stephanos Theodossiades, Franz Diwoky, Marti Sopouch, Guenter Offner, Ahmed Haris, Juan Gonzalez, Brett Friskney

“…The Prominence Ratio is used to identify tonal bands in the spectrum and a neural network detects these prominent bands by analysing the transmitted forces.…”
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A computer model of auditory stream segregation by Michael W. Beavois

“…A simple computer model is described that takes a novel approach to the problem of accounting for perceptual coherence among successive pure tones of changing frequency by using simple physiological principles that operate at a peripheral, rather than a central level. …”
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The impact of macroeconomic and regulatory factors on bank efficiency: a non-parametic analysis of Hong Kong's financial services sector by Leigh M. Drake, Maximilian Hall, Richard Simper

“…A further innovation is that we also employ Tone’s (2001) slacks-based model (SBM) to conduct the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in addition to the more traditional approach attributable to Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) (1984). …”
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A two-step multiuser detection scheme for space-time coded MIMO OFDM systems by Li Zhang, Mathini Sellathurai, Jonathon Chambers

“…The STBC has been implemented either over adjacent tones or adjacent OFDM symbols and the performances of both implementations have been tested under slowly time-varying channels. …”
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Contrast of Architectural Styles by Johnny Xu

“…The architectural colour reflects hues and tones becoming a symbolic and expressive element in the modern architectural language. …”
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Environmental factors affecting Hong Kong banking : a post-Asian financial crisis efficiency analysis by Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Richard Simper

“…Within the banking efficiency analysis literature there is a dearth of studies which have considered how banks have ‘survived’ the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. …”
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Satisfying a need for sleep by Yvonne Harrison

“…Recent studies have suggested that the average individual has a sleep requirement in excess of 8h sleep each night. …”
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A new approach to dealing with negative numbers in efficiency analysis: an application to the Indonesian banking sector by Muliaman D. Hadad, Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Wimboh Santoso, Richard Simper

“…For robustness, a range-directional (RD) model suggested by Silva Portela et al. (2004) was also employed to handle the negative numbers. …”
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Intermodulation distortion in a photoconductive microwave switch by Emma K. Kowalczuk, Chinthana Panagamuwa, Rob Seager

“…The switch consists of a lightly doped die of silicon mounted over a gap in a transmission line. …”
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Coherent quantum network of superconducting qubits as a highly sensitive detector of microwave photons for searching of galactic axions by Claudio Gatti, Marco Affronte, Alexander Balanov, Claudio Bonizzoni, Giorgio Brida, Fabio Chiarello, Nassim Chikhi, Gianluca Coda, Alessandro D'Elia, Daniele Di Gioacchino, Emanuele Enrico, Ilya Eremin, Mikkel Ernajes, Eudeni Il'ichev, Luca Fasolo, Mikhail Fistoul, Alberto Ghirri, Angelo Greco, C. Ligi, Giovanni Maccarone, Alice Meda, Patrick Navez, Gregor Oelsner, Mauro Rajteri, Alessio Rettaroli, Berardo Ruggiero, Sergey Saveliev, Paolo Silvestrini, Simone Tocci, Alexey Ustinov, Paolo Vanacore, Alexandre Zagoskin, Mikhail Lisitskiy

“…We propose a novel approach to detect a low power microwave signal with a frequency of the order of several GHz based on a coherent collective response of quantum states occurring in a superconducting qubits network (SQN). …”
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How do parents of adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa interact with their child at mealtimes? A study of parental strategies used in the family meal session of family-based t... by Hannah White, Emma Haycraft, Sloane Madden, Paul Rhodes, Jane Miskovic-Wheatley, Andrew Wallis, Michael Kohn, Caroline Meyer

“…Method: Participants were 21 families with a child aged between 12 and 18 years receiving FBT for adolescent anorexia nervosa. …”
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Algorithms for compression of high dynamic range images and video by Vladimir Dolzhenko

“…However this approach leads to image quality associated problems, when strong dynamic range compression is applied. …”
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The influence of associated reactions on upper limb performance following stroke by Fiona Lough

“…The recovery of movement following a stroke is often affected by increased reflex activity. …”
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John Lewis Building Architectural Detail by Johnny Xu

“…A transparent curtain wall can be understood as colourless, but at the same time, it can see all the colours through it. …”
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Driver sleepiness on YouTube: A content analysis by A.N. Hawkins, Ashleigh Filtness

“…The use of humour to convey messages about the dangers of driver sleepiness may be a useful approach in educational interventions.…”
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Simulating, fabricating and characterising photoconductive microwave switches for RF applications by Emma K. Kowalczuk

“…This is addressed in this thesis presenting and applying analytical equations which dictate the material properties in photoconductive silicon. …”
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Natural action processing conversation analysis and big interactional data by W Housley, Saul Albert, Elizabeth Stokoe

“…We argue that CA and EM can innovate and substantially enhance the scope of the dominant CS approaches to big interactional data if artificial intelligence-based natural language processing systems are trained using CA annotated data to do what we call natural action processing.…”
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Pharmacological hypotheses: Is acetaminophen selective in its cyclooxygenase inhibition? by Christopher J Esh, Bryna C. R. Chrismas, Alexis R. Mauger, Lee Taylor

“…ACT’s analgesic and antipyretic actions are attributed to cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibition preventing prostaglandin (PG) synthesis. …”
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The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in the Basque nationalist press: discursive and rhetorical analysis by Angel B. Durandegui

“…A dramatic tone suggested subtle criticism against ETA, yet implying that it was reasonable to include ETA among the human victims. …”
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Introduction [Contemporary Jewellers Interviews with European Artists] by Roberta Bernabei

“…The book offers a reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. …”
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Implicit beliefs of disability and elite sport: the para-athlete experience by Nicholas P. De Cruz, Christopher Spray, Brett M. Smith

“…Utilising a qualitative research design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five elite para-athletes from various sporting backgrounds and analysed from a psychosocial perspective according to the procedures of theoretical thematic analysis. …”
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Experiments on the effectiveness of marketing communications tactics to support ‘unappealing’ animals by Jie Meng, E. Cooper, Y. Sun

“…Overall, a participant’s prior knowledge or preference for a specific species had a great influence over donation choice. …”
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Influence of computer work under time pressure on cardiac activity by Ping Shi, Sijung Hu, Hongliu Yu

“…In contrast, the stressful computer tasks with added time pressure stimulated cardiac sympathetic activity.…”
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Nonperturbing measurements of spatially distributed underwater acoustic fields using a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer by Andy Harland, Jon Petzing, John Tyrer

“…Measurements of a 1 MHz acoustic tone burst generated by a focused transducer are described and the results presented. …”
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Cutting anti-apartheid images: Bongiwe Dhlomo's activist linocut prints by Marion Arnold

“…This paper discusses political content in a series of linocut prints created by a female Zulu artist, Bongiwe (commonly known as Bongi) Dhlomo (b. 1956) in 1982 during late apartheid in South Africa. …”
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A dialogue of the deaf, or communities of debate? The use of facebook in the 2013 Czech parliamentary elections campaign by Vaclav Stetka, Lenka Vochocova

“…This article presents an analysis of the citizens' engagement with the 2013 Czech parliamentary elections campaign on Facebook. …”
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Productivity changes in Indonesian banking: application of a new approach to estimating Malmquist indices by Muliaman D. Hadad, Maximilian Hall, Wimboh Santoso, Karligash Glass, Richard Simper

“…In this study, we utilise a new, non-parametric efficiency measurement approach which combines the semi-oriented radial measure data envelopment analysis (SORM DEA) approach for dealing with negative data (Emrouznejad et al., 2010) with the slacks-based efficiency measure of Tone (2001, 2002), to analyse efficiency and productivity changes for Indonesian banks over the period Quarter I 2003 to Quarter IV 2007. …”
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