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

“…In this paper, we propose a computationally fast and statistically improved hybrid single tone estimator which outperforms other recently proposed approaches, lowering the signal-to-noise ratio at which the Cram´er-Rao lower bound is closely followed. …”
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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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Optimistic disclosure tone and conservative debt policy by Ali Ataullah, Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

“…We examine the relationship between managerial optimism and debt conservatism (i.e. the low-leverage puzzle). …”
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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

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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

“…For the tonal perception analysis, the Prominence Ratio is used as a metric. 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

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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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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

“…RESULTS: FMD and glyceryl trinitrate responses were lower (P < .05) in ExFHA (2.8% ± 0.4% and 11.6% ± 0.7%, respectively) than ExOv (8.8% ± 0.7% and 16.7% ± 1.3%) and SedOv (8.0% ± 0.5% and 17.1% ± 1.8%). …”
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Time-varying managerial overconfidence and pecking order preference by Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu

“…This paper examines whether managerial overconfidence enhances or weakens pecking order preference. 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

“…Moreover, we find that the insider trading-based overconfidence of CEO, who is most likely to influence investment decision and thus the underinvestment problem, has a stronger impact on debt maturity than the overconfidence of other directors (e.g. …”
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Corporate financing decisions: the role of managerial overconfidence by Bin Xu

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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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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

“…These findings give little support to the view of chronic sleep deprivation in the average 7.5 h sleeper. The second section includes evidence of a number of circumstances in which sleep can occur in alert subjects who otherwise showed no indication of sleepiness related impairment : (i) by using non-conventional scoring criteria throughout MSLT trials, sleep was found to occur as short bursts, or microsleeps, in non-arousing situations (ii) in response to a motivational incentive, and (iii) as MSLT defined patholo 91 sleepiness unrelated to sleep-sensitive performance tasks, subjective sleepiness, or prior sleep behaviour. …”
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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

“…For the re-launch of Visual Culture in Britain, the editors have invited, via the same process we went through in 2014, amounting to a series of ‘reflections on Visual Culture in Britain now, the role of journal to address some of these reflections, especially in an era of political upheaval and economic duress. …”
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A computer model of auditory stream segregation by Michael W. Beavois

“…These are: (1) the build-up of streaming over time; (2) the temporal coherence and fission boundaries of human listeners; (3) the ambiguous region; and (4) the trill threshold. …”
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Intermodulation distortion in a photoconductive microwave switch by Emma K. Kowalczuk, Chinthana Panagamuwa, Rob Seager

“…Whilst under constant illumination, the third order intercept for a 2 GHz CW signal is extrapolated to be 74 dBm. …”
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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 this paper, we investigate transceiver design for a wideband multiuser-multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, where the co-channel users are equipped with multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas. …”
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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

“…My art work in some ways functions as a digital restoration of sacred architecture outside its real environment and context, and seeks to document cultural heritage and knowledge. …”
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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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Environmental factors affecting Hong Kong banking : a post-Asian financial crisis efficiency analysis by Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Richard Simper

“…We find that there was a significant negative effect on Hong Kong bank efficiency in 2001, which we ascribe to the fallout from the terrorist attacks in America in 9/11 and to the completion of deposit rate deregulation that year. …”
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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

“…The wastewater discharge from these tanneries is about 100,000 cubic meters per day. More than 90% tanneries are in small and medium scale sector with processing capacities of less than 2-3 tons of hides/ skins per day.…”
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Tonal considerations in the selection of wall materials for open labial organ pipes by Philip A. Wells

“…Research into the tonal influence of the materials in which organ pipes are fabricated, far from clarifying the question, has contributed to the confusion. …”
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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

“…A design of the layout of three terminals SQN detectors containing 10 flux qubits weakly coupled to a low-dissipative R-resonator and T-transmission line was developed. …”
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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

“…We then identify the ‘environmental’ factors that significantly affect the efficiency scores using an adaptation (Kenjegalieva et al. 2009) of the truncated regression approach suggested by Simar and Wilson. 2007). …”
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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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Grey textile in the Goodwill Collection at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa by Celeste McKenzie

“…A close-up of a grey textile with the text "BENEFITTING THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION Living the legacy" and the foundation's logo above the text. …”
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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

“…Within this research strategy we employ Tone’s (2001) non-parametric, Slacks-Based Model (SBM) and Tone’s (2002) super-efficiency SBM combining them with recent bootstrapping techniques, namely the non-parametric truncated regression analysis suggested by Simar and Wilson (2007). …”
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Contrast of Architectural Styles by Johnny Xu

“…Third, Postmodern architecture attempts to challenge the formative and monotony of Modernism with new materials and technologies. As a result, the Showcase Cinema de Lux has implemented the light and rich texture metal to form a shiny, illusionary façade. …”
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Efficiency in Indonesian banking: Recent evidence by Muliaman D. Hadad, Maximilian Hall, Karligash Glass, Wimboh Santoso, Ricky Satria, Richard Simper

“…The results from the initial analysis show that: (i) average bank efficiency within the industry during 2007 lay between 62% – 67%; (ii) the most efficient group of banks was the ‘state-owned’ group with an average efficiency score of over 90%, with the least efficient group being the ‘regional government-owned’ banks with average efficiency scores between 45% and 58%; (iii) ‘listed banks’ performed better, on average, than ‘non-listed banks’; and (iv) ‘Islamic banks’, despite their different operational structure when compared with conventional banks, enjoyed average efficiency scores between 54% and 74%. …”
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Lasers and textiles: an exploration into laser dye–fibre interaction and the process of technology transfer by Savithri N. Bartlett

“…To most woven textiles, retail value is added through the twin processes of dyeing and colourprinting for short runs (e. g. 100-150 metres) vat dyeing may add as much as , £5/metre and screen-printing a repeat pattern as much as £2.50 to £5 per metre (Angela Hamilton of Stead McAlpine 2005, pers comm., 20 October). …”
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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

“…Reported single tone output third order intercept (TOI) was measured as 63dBm under 200mW of optical incident light. …”
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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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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

“…These equations are then used to generate a 3D EM simulation model to investigate transmission loss in the photoconductive switch. …”
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Education theories on learning: an informal guide for the engineering education scholar by Jenni Case

“…Six ‘tools’ have been identified.The selection is the author’s personal choice and the tools were chosen for their usefulness in engineering education research.Tools 1-3 broadly cover learning as acquisition, tools 3-6 look at learning as participation: 1.Tool 1: Concepts 2.Tool 2: Ways of experiencing 3.Tool 3: Approaches to learning 4.Tool 4: Community of practice 5.Tool 5: Identity 6.Tool 6: Discourse. …”
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