The Effect of Speaking Sample Duration on Determination of Habitual Pitch

The purpose of this study was to investigate if there was an effect of duration of speaking on determination of habitual pitch. Five speaking periods commonly used to elicit habitual pitch in clinical voice evaluations were compared (1, 5, 15, 30, and 60 seconds). Thirty female speakers with normal voices participated. Results of a within-subject univariate F-test revealed a statistically significant (p < 0.001) difference in habitual pitch among the speaking periods. Habitual pitch for the 1-second and 60-second speaking periods were found to be statistically significantly (p < 0.05) different than all remaining speaking periods, and the habitual pitch for the 30-second speaking period was found to be statistically significantly (p < 0.05) different than 60-second speaking period. Implications for the use of various speaking durations when determining habitual pitch are discussed, as is the possibility of a speaking duration effect on determination of other pitch-related voice parameters.     

On the origin of the Epps effect

The Epps effect, the decrease of correlations between stock returns for short time windows, was traced back to the trading asynchronicity and to the occasional lead-lag relation between the prices. We study pairs of stocks where the latter is negligible and confirm the importance of asynchronicity but point out that alone these aspects are insufficient to give account for the whole effect.     

Temporal Aberration of the Focused Inhomogeneous Wave from a Misalignment Parallel Grating Pair Compressor

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频移反馈Nd∶YLF激光软阈值实验与模拟计算

实验和模拟计算均表明：在无注入种子激光的频移反馈Ｎｄ∶ＹＬＦ激光系统中，不存在软阈值，而当注入种子激光时，出现软阈值特性，实验还发现：随着种子激光功率增大，软阈值变得更加明显。     

Theoretical Research on Sensitivity for Resonance Wavelength of Long Period Fiber Grating

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用立体李萨如图形测频率

在用李萨如图形测频率时，若待测频率与参考频率相差太大，则示波器上的李氏图形尤其是边缘区太拥挤，不易观测切点数目。本提出采用具有立体感的李萨如图形，就可以解决上述问题。     

实验评估全息凹面光栅平场摄谱仪

阐述ＳＰＤ－Ｉ型全息凹面衍射光栅平场摄谱仪的基本工作原理和仪器结构，详细报导了该仪器的适用波长范围、平直谱面长度、倒数线色散率和光谱带宽等主要技术性能的光学测试方法和实验结果。测量结果表明在设计波长范围（４００至８００ｍｍ）内像差校正良好，获得的平直谱面可与光敏面长度为一英寸（２３．５ｃｍ）的多通道探测器相配；仪器的色散相当均匀（约１７ｎｍ／ｍｍ），在５７９．９６ｎｍ波长处测得的光谱带宽为１ｎｍ，能满足一般光学多通道分析仪的要求。     

A thermal analysis evaluation of the low temperature synthesis of BaBiO3

Thermal decomposition of metal-organic precursors for the mixed oxide BaBiO₃ was studied using TG and EGA. Precursors produced by polyesterification of bifunctional acids with ethylene glycol (Pechini process) decomposed about 100°C higher than those without the diol. BaCO₃ was identified by IR and XRD as a reaction intermediate. EGA proved that the amount of BaCO₃ was below 10% of the total barium, and that the barium exists mainly as a nitro-compound up to 650°C. Phase-pure BaBiO₃ with a moderately high surface area (1.4 m²/g) could be synthesised from a citrate precursor by the Pechini process at around 850°C.     

光栅常数的简便测量方法

本文给出光栅常数两种简便测量方法。     

Optimization approach to the design of frequency sampling filters

Many digital signal processing applications require linear phase filtering. For applications that require narrow-band linear phase filtering, frequency sampling filters can implement linear phase filters more efficiently than the commonly used direct convolution filter. In this paper, a technique is developed for designing linear phase frequency sampling filters. A frequency sampling filter approximates a desired frequency response by interpolating a frequency response through a set of frequency samples taken from the desired frequency response. Although the frequency response of a frequency sampling filter passes through the frequency samples, the frequency response may not be well behaved between the specific samples. Linear programming is commonly used to control the interpolation errors between frequency samples. The design method developed in this paper controls the interpolation errors between frequency samples by minimizing the mean square error between the desired and actual frequency responses in the stopband and passband. This design method describes the frequency sampling filter design problem as a constrained optimization problem which is solved using the Lagrange multiplier optimization method. This results in a set of linear equations which when solved determine the filter's coefficients.This work was partially funded by The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada and by NSF Grant MIP-9200581.