Dichotic speech recognition in noise using reduced spectral cues

It is generally accepted that the fusion of two speech signals presented dichotically is affected by the relative onset time. This study investigated the hypothesis that spectral resolution might be an additional factor influencing spectral fusion when the spectral information is split and presented dichotically to the two ears. To produce speech with varying degrees of spectral resolution, speech materials embedded in +5 dB S/N speech-shaped noise were processed through 6-12 channels and synthesized as a sum of sine waves. Two different methods of splitting the spectral information were investigated. In the first method, the odd-index channels were presented to one ear and the even-index channels to the other ear. In the second method the lower frequency channels were presented to one ear and the high-frequency channels to the other ear. Results indicated that spectral resolution did affect spectral fusion, and the effect differed across speech materials, with the sentences being affected the most. Sentences, processed through six or eight channels and presented dichotically in the low-high frequency condition were not fused as accurately as when presented monaurally. Sentences presented dichotically in the odd-even frequency condition were identified more accurately than when presented in the low-high condition.     

White-light emission from porous-silicon-aluminum Schottky junctions

Summary Porous-silicon-based white-light-emitting devices are presented. The fabrication process on different substrates is described. The peculiarities of technological steps for device fabrication (porous-silicon formation and aluminum treatment) are underlined. Doping profile of the porous layer, current-voltage characteristics, time response, lifetime tests and electroluminescence emission spectrum of the device are presented. A model for electrical behaviour of Al/porous silicon Schottky junction is presented. Electroluminescence spectrum of the presented devices showed strong similarities with white emission from crystalline silicon junctions in the breakdown region. Paper presented at the III INSEL (Incontro Nazionale sul Silicio Emettitore di Luce), Torino, 12–13 October 1995.     

基于抛物方程的海陆环境信号时延与到达角估计

针对复杂海陆环境中的无线信号传播预测问题,研究了适用于抛物方程的信号时延与到达角估计方法。将自由空间中抛物方程轴向波前信号视为本地副本信号,然后利用信号的自相关特性,将接收信号与副本信号进行互相关运算,最后通过相关函数的峰值检索,得到脉冲信号在复杂环境中传播的附加时延。采用数值算例,验证了该方法的正确性和有效性。此外,采用多重信号分类算法,由抛物方程构建接收阵列的协方差矩阵,并对其进行特征值分解,然后利用信号子空间和噪声子空间的正交性,实现复杂环境中的信号到达角估计。仿真结果表明,相比于传统的平面波谱方法,该方法具有更高的多径分辨率。基于上述方法,并结合数字地图,在典型的海陆环境中进行了仿真实验,分析了蒸发波导对脉冲信号传播时延和到达角的影响。     

Thermoluminescence of Cosmic matter

Summary A simplified model of thermoluminescence in silicates is presented and the astronomical applications of the phenomenon are shown. Finally our experimental apparatus and preliminary tests are presented and compared with those in the literature. Paper presented at the V Cosmic Physics National Conference, S. Miniato, November 27–30, 1990.     

Cylindricity of ablation-controlled arcs

A rigorous calculation of ablation-controlled arcs in cylindrical tubes that can reproduce a noncylindrical arc boundary correctly is presented. Earlier workers on the subject implicitly assumed nearly cylindrical arcs. The more rigorous results presented a posteriori justify those simplifications. A complete scan of sonic solutions is presented     

Two-pion interferometry for granular sources

A review on the two-pion Hanbury-Brown—Twiss (HBT) interferometry in the granular source model of quark-gluon plasma droplets is presented. The characteristic quantities of the granular source extracted by imaging analysis are presented and compared with the HBT radii obtained by the usual Gaussian formula fit. The signals of granular sources are presented.     

A further test of the linearity of temporal summation in forward masking

An experiment tested the hypothesis that the masking effects of two nonoverlapping forward maskers are summed linearly over time. First, the levels of individual noise maskers required to mask a brief 4-kHz signal presented at 10-, 20-, 30-, or 40-dB sensation level (SL) were found. The hypothesis predicts that a combination of the first masker presented at the level required to mask the 10-dB SL signal and the second masker presented at the level required to mask the 20-dB SL signal, should produce the same amount of masking as the converse situation (i.e., the first masker presented at the level required to mask the 20-dB SL signal and the second masker presented at the level required to mask the 10-dB SL signal), and similarly for the 30- and 40-dB SL signals. The results were consistent with the predictions.     

Feynman’s Relativistic Electrodynamics Paradox and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

An analysis is done of a relativistic paradox posed in the Feynman Lectures of Physics involving two interacting charges. The physical system presented is compared with similar systems that also lead to relativistic paradoxes. The momentum conservation problem for these systems is presented. The relation between the presented analysis and the ongoing debates on momentum conservation in the Aharonov-Bohm problem is discussed.     

热等离子体内原子物理研究概况与原子分子数据的联合研制

本文着重介绍了两种基本原子模型的用途、研究现状及其发展趋向．这两种模型是:平均原子模型和细致组态计算模型．关于热等离子体内的原子物理过程,本文介绍电子同高电荷离子的碰撞以及双电子复合过程的研究现状,简单介绍了实验情况．此外,还介绍了中国原子分子数据研究联合体（ＣＲＡＡＭＤ）的工作概况． The uses,status and tendency of the two essential atomic models were presented emphatically.They are the average atom (AA) model and the detailed configurationaccounting (DCA)model.Concerning atomic processes in hot plasmas,the electron-ion collision and the dielectronic recombination were introduced especially.However,the experimental status were less presented. The general situation were presented in this paper.     

The spatial unmasking of speech: evidence for better-ear listening

Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured for target speech presented concurrently with interfering speech (spoken by a different speaker). In experiment 1, the target and interferer were divided spectrally into high- and low-frequency bands and presented over headphones in three conditions: monaural, dichotic (target and interferer to different ears), and swapped (the low-frequency target band and the high-frequency interferer band were presented to one ear, while the high-frequency target band and the low-frequency interferer band were presented to the other ear). SRTs were highest in the monaural condition and lowest in the dichotic condition; SRTs in the swapped condition were intermediate. In experiment 2, two new conditions were devised such that one target band was presented in isolation to one ear while the other band was presented at the other ear with the interferer. The pattern of SRTs observed in experiment 2 suggests that performance in the swapped condition reflects the intelligibility of the target frequency bands at just one ear; the auditory system appears unable to exploit advantageous target-to-interferer ratios at different ears when segregating target speech from a competing speech interferer.     

光学材料光学均匀性的波长调谐两步绝对测量法

光学均匀性是光学材料的重要指标,目前高精度的测量方法一般采用绝对测量法,而该方法步骤繁琐,容易受环境影响。根据波长移相干涉仪的移相特点,提出了测量光学材料光学均匀性的波长调谐两步绝对测量法。该方法在波长移相干涉仪中通过平行平板放入测量和空腔测量两个步骤得到平行平板的光学均匀性。在模拟仿真验证方法的正确性后,进行了实验研究,并与传统的绝对测量法的测量结果进行比较。结果表明,波长调谐两步绝对测量法可用于测量平行平板的光学均匀性,且测量步骤简单,精度较高。     

考虑双速度差效应的耦合映射跟驰模型

基于Konishi等的研究工作,提出了涉及前方两辆车车头间距的优化速度函数的耦合映射跟驰模型. 采用反馈控制方法,研究了耦合映射跟驰模型中的交通拥堵控制. 利用反馈控制理论,给出了头车速度发生变化时交通流保持稳定的条件,并与Konishi等得到的结果进行了比较. 数值模拟结果表明,所提出的模型在经典的反馈控制方法下描述的交通拥堵现象得到了有效抑制. 关键词： 交通流 耦合映射跟驰模型 优化速度函数 反馈控制     

Binaural loudness summation for speech presented via earphones and loudspeaker with and without visual cues

Preliminary data [M. Epstein and M. Florentine, Ear. Hear. 30, 234-237 (2009)] obtained using speech stimuli from a visually present talker heard via loudspeakers in a sound-attenuating chamber indicate little difference in loudness when listening with one or two ears (i.e., significantly reduced binaural loudness summation, BLS), which is known as "binaural loudness constancy." These data challenge current understanding drawn from laboratory measurements that indicate a tone presented binaurally is louder than the same tone presented monaurally. Twelve normal listeners were presented recorded spondees, monaurally and binaurally across a wide range of levels via earphones and a loudspeaker with and without visual cues. Statistical analyses of binaural-to-monaural ratios of magnitude estimates indicate that the amount of BLS is significantly less for speech presented via a loudspeaker with visual cues than for stimuli with any other combination of test parameters (i.e., speech presented via earphones or a loudspeaker without visual cues, and speech presented via earphones with visual cues). These results indicate that the loudness of a visually present talker in daily environments is little affected by switching between binaural and monaural listening. This supports the phenomenon of binaural loudness constancy and underscores the importance of ecological validity in loudness research.     

Hysteresis characteristics of an analytical vector hysteron

The analytical way to describe uniaxial single-domain particles, using new symmetry considerations on the magnetic anisotropy, as a vector hysteresis unit (vector hysteron), is presented. The main characteristics of the vector hysteron such as the longitudinal hysteresis loops, transversal hysteresis loops and rotational hysteresis loops are presented. An extension of the vector hysteron and a vector hysteron that can be applied to the ferroelectric hysteresis are also presented.     

A semi-analytical finite element formulation for modeling stress wave propagation in axisymmetric damped waveguides

A semi-analytical finite element (SAFE) method is presented for analyzing the wave propagation in viscoelastic axisymmetric waveguides. The approach extends a recent study presented by the authors, in which the general SAFE method was extended to account for material damping. The formulation presented in this paper uses the cylindrical coordinates to reduce the finite element discretization over the waveguide cross-section to a mono-dimensional mesh. The algorithm is validated by comparing the dispersion results with viscoelastic cases for which a Superposition of Partial Bulk Waves solution is known. The formulation accurately predicts dispersion properties and does not show any missing root. Applications to viscoelastic axisymmetric waveguides with varying mechanical and geometrical properties are presented.     

光盘与光存储技术简介

本文较全面地介绍了各类光盘的结构、性能、记录原理和加工过程 ,特别注意介绍光盘技术中涉及到的物理原理     

Hot-carrier transient transport

In this article a review is presented of the present knowledge on the problem of transient transport of charge carriers in semiconductors with high applied electric fields. After a summary of the fundamentals of charge transport the Monte Carlo method is presented as applied to such problems. Transient transport is then presented with special emphasis on the most modern results related to autocorrelation function of velocity fluctuations.     

Determination of three orthogonal displacement components from one double exposure hologram

Another method for the interpretation of double-exposure holograms is presented. It is shown that by a filtering procedure carried out in the plane of the real image, fringe patterns can be formed that also give information about the displacement undergone by the surface of the object. An interpretation for those patternis presented fo rsmall out-or plane displacements. presented for small out-of-plane displacements.     

The Symmetry Properties of Linear Combination Coefficients for Molecular Orbitals of Diatomic Molecules

In this paper, the symmetry properties of linear combination coefficients for molecular orbitals of diatomicmolecules, using Slater type orbitals, are presented with the help of the symmetry operations in group theory. In order totest the presented symmetry properties, the linear combination coefficients of molecular orbitalsfor the ground electronicstate of pilot molecules F2 and CO are calculated using constructed computer programs for Hartree-Fock-Roothaanequation. It is seen that the obtained computing results satisfy the presented symmetry properties.