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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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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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

“…Acceleration, force and sound spectra data are used to train an artificial neural network to assess the prominence of tones in the noise based on the results of the structural simulation. …”
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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

“…As watermarked high dynamic range images need to be tone mapped for visualization purposes on the traditional low dynamic range displays, the associated tone mapping operators (TMOs) can be deemed inevitable attacks. …”
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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

“…The LWA is designed based on a multi-tone periodicity of a width-modulated microstrip line. …”
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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

“…Although the role of estrogen deficiency per se is unclear, our findings suggest that low shear rate and increased vasoconstrictor tone may play a role in impaired basal vascular function in these women.…”
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Time-varying managerial overconfidence and pecking order preference by Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

“…We construct time-varying managerial words-based (i.e. tone of Chairman’s Statement) and action-based (i.e. firm investment and directors’ trading) overconfidence measures. …”
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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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Corporate financing decisions: the role of managerial overconfidence by Bin Xu

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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

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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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'Wet Paint 2': Visual culture in a changing Britain - a roundtable debate by Craig Richardson, Ysanne Holt, Murray Leith, Frances Fowle, Johnny Rodger, Dana Arnold, Rina Arya, Sarah Victoria Turner

“…Towards the end of 2014 the previous editor of Visual Culture in Britain invited a variety of authors to contribute a page or two to a roundtable discussion on a variety of political and cultural events and changes. …”
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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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Intermodulation distortion in a photoconductive microwave switch by Emma K. Kowalczuk, Chinthana Panagamuwa, Rob Seager

“…Single-tone harmonic and two-tone intermodulation distortion measurements are presented for a photoconductive microwave switch. …”
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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

“…It is known that the presence of tones in the radiated noise can increase the perceived nuisance of the user. …”
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Driver sleepiness on YouTube: A content analysis by A.N. Hawkins, Ashleigh Filtness

“…And secondly, what are the general characteristics of driver sleepiness videos in terms of (a) outlook on driver sleepiness, (b) tone, (c) countermeasures to driver sleepiness, and, (d) driver demographics.Using a keywords search, 442 relevant videos were found from a five year period (2nd December 2009-2nd December 2014). …”
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A two-step multiuser detection scheme for space-time coded MIMO OFDM systems by Li Zhang, Mathini Sellathurai, Jonathon Chambers

“…In particular, we develop a two-step hard-decision interference cancellation receiver for a multiuser-MIMO uplink system which employs orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and space-time block codes (STBC). …”
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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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Representing Korean Buddhist art and architecture - a 3D animated documentary installation by Hyunseok Lee

“…This practice-led research 'One Mind' - seeks to represent Korean Buddhist architectural aesthetics and Buddhist spiritual ideas using the animated documentary genre as a form of creative representation. It is intended that the piece be shown either as an installation in a gallery, or within a museum or cultural exhibition context. …”
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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

“…Using a new approach (i.e., semi-oriented radial measure Data Envelopment Analysis, or ‘SORM DEA’) to handling negative numbers (Emrouznejad et al., 2010) and combining it with Tone’s (2001) slacks-based model (SBM) to form an input-oriented, non-parametric SORM SBM model, we firstly estimate the relative average efficiencies of Indonesian banks, both overall, by group, as determined by their ownership structure, and by status (‘listed’/’Islamic’). …”
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Tonal considerations in the selection of wall materials for open labial organ pipes by Philip A. Wells

“…The work includes a survey of relevant literature about other wind instruments as well as the organ, from which aspects of the controversy which require further experimental work are identified. …”
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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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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

“…Using quantitative content analysis, we first present an overview of the dynamics and intensity of users' engagement with the campaign, illustrating that some of the small as well as populist parties have managed to mobilize significantly larger part of Facebook population than more established parties. following that descriptive part, we first turn to the analysis of the actual content of communication, examining primarily the tone of users' comments, and than we move on to a more in-depth, qualitative examination of communication on the profiles of two selected political parties which were very successful in their online mobilization. …”
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Gender, power and identities in the fitness gym: towards a sociology of the 'exercise body-beautiful complex' by Louise Mansfield

“…Some female exercisers also share some characteristics with other women, specifically in the context of the fitness gym. Linked to a desire for a high status body Image, there is a tendency for white, western, middle-class, heterosexual, able-bodied women, who go to the gym, to share a preference for cosmetic fitness activities, and an emotional tie to aspirations for a slender, muscularly toned physique. …”
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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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Productivity changes and risk management in Indonesian banking: an application of a new approach to constructing 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-SBM-DEA) approach for dealing with negative data (Emrouznejad et al., 2010) with the slacks-based efficiency measures of Tone (2001, 2002) to analyse productivity changes for Indonesian banks over the period Quarter I 2003 to Quarter II 2007. …”
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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

“…These environmental factors are specifically incorporated into the efficiency analysis using the innovative slacks-based, second stage Tobit regression approach advocated by Fried et al (1999). 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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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

“…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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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

“…The SQN detector was tested in terms of microwave measurements of scattering parameters and two-tone spectroscopy. A substantial shift of the frequency position of the transmission coefficient drop induced by a second tone pump signal was observed, and this effect clearly manifests a nonlinear multiphoton interaction between the second-tone microwave pump signal and an array of qubits.…”
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Accounting for environmental factors, bias and negative numbers in efficiency estimation: a bootstrapping application to the Hong Kong banking sector by Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Richard Simper

“…This paper examines the evolution of Hong Kong’s banking industry’s technical efficiency, and its macroeconomic determinants, during the period 2000-2006 through the prism of two alternative approaches to efficiency estimation, namely the intermediation and production approaches. Using a modified (Sharp, Meng and Liu, 2006) slacks-based model (Tone, 2001), and purging the efficiency estimates for random errors (Simar and Zelenyuk, 2007) , we firstly analyse the trends in bank efficiency. …”
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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

“…Several parental mealtime strategies (direct and non-direct eating prompts) were found to be consistently associated with the tone of adolescents' vocalisations and the number of mouthfuls consumed in response to a parental prompt. …”
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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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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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Efficiency in Indonesian banking: Recent evidence by Muliaman D. Hadad, Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Wimboh Santoso, Ricky Satria, Richard Simper

“…In one of the first stand-alone studies covering the whole of the Indonesian banking industry, and utilising a unique dataset provided by the Indonesian central bank, this paper analyses the levels of intermediation-based efficiency obtaining during 2007. …”
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Lasers and textiles: an exploration into laser dye–fibre interaction and the process of technology transfer by Savithri N. Bartlett

“…The section comprising Questions 1 to 4 successfully investigates (a) pyrolysis in natural and man-made fibres in the course of laser-marking, (b) surface heating of a fabric weave without impairing fabric strength, (c) computer-aided transfer of artwork to the laser-marking program: specifically, how tonal images may be encoded in a limited palette of grey tones; and (d) the laser-marking process, generating interaction between dye and fibre through selective absorption of a single wavelength of radiation. …”
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Characterising the linearity of an optically controlled photoconductive microwave switch by Emma K. Kowalczuk, Chinthana Panagamuwa, Rob Seager, J. C. Vardaxoglou

“…The linearity response of a photoconductive switch on microstrip line is presented at 2GHz. …”
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John Lewis Building Architectural Detail by Johnny Xu

“…Similarly it is difficult to use a single hue or tone to explain the colour effects. …”
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On the strike note of bells by Gerry Swallowe, R. Perrin

“…It is demonstrated that a strike note may be isolated by beating with a pure test tone and this technique is used to investigate 28 bell-like sounds using a total of 60 listeners. …”
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Simulating, fabricating and characterising photoconductive microwave switches for RF applications by Emma K. Kowalczuk

“…The switch, which consists of a silicon die placed over a gap in transmission line, is controlled by illumination via a fibre optic cable. …”
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Education theories on learning: an informal guide for the engineering education scholar by Jenni Case

“…It is aimed at newcomers to the field, such as: •engineering teachers who want to be able to use education theory and research findings to inform their teaching; and •aspiring engineering education researchers who want to launch their own projects. Using a view of a theory as a set of ‘thinking tools’, the guide offers a selection for building up a tool kit. …”
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Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction (PDF) by Sean McAleer

“…With its approachable tone and clear presentation, it constitutes a welcome contribution to the field, and will be an indispensable resource for philosophy students and teachers, as well as general readers new to, or returning to, the text.…”
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Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction (XML) by Sean McAleer

“…With its approachable tone and clear presentation, it constitutes a welcome contribution to the field, and will be an indispensable resource for philosophy students and teachers, as well as general readers new to, or returning to, the text.…”
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Wandering through drawing's trace by Deborah Harty

“…The chapter will enter into a conversation with Berthe Morisot’s Self-Portrait with Julie Manet (1887) as a means to consider how the formal elements of drawing: composition, line, tone, mark, etc. have retained the trace of the bodily movements and experience of the artist whilst at the same time, acknowledging the influence of the trace of their lived world. …”
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Children’s whining in family interaction by Carly Butler, Derek Edwards

“…Parental reactions include one or more of: “stance inversion,” which is the adoption of a contrasting tone in next turn; formulations of the offending circumstances; orientations to remedying the problem; and rejection of the whine’s basis, including dispositional formulations of the child’s whining (e.g., being “grumpy”), and accounts for not complying with a called-for remedy. …”
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An Enhanced Feedback Scheme for Extended Orthogonal Space-Frequency Block Coded MISO-OFDM Systems by Nasr E.M. Eltayeb, Shakiru K. Kassim, Jonathon Chambers

“…Since the angle feedback is on a per tone basis, the feedback information would be too large for any practical OFDM system. …”
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