The effects of binaural spectral resolution mismatch on Mandarin speech perception in simulated electric hearing

This study assessed the effects of binaural spectral resolution mismatch on the intelligibility of Mandarin speech in noise using bilateral cochlear implant simulations. Noise-vocoded Mandarin speech, corrupted by speech-shaped noise at 0 and 5?dB signal-to-noise ratios, were presented unilaterally or bilaterally to normal-hearing listeners with mismatched spectral resolution between ears. Significant binaural benefits for Mandarin speech recognition were observed only with matched spectral resolution between ears. In addition, the performance of tone identification was more robust to noise than that of sentence recognition, suggesting factors other than tone identification might account more for the degraded sentence recognition in noise.     

A natural abundance Se solid-state NMR study of inorganic compounds

Various inorganic selenium-based compounds were analysed by ⁷⁷Se solid-state NMR, and a distinct difference in chemical shift ranges for compounds where selenium is present as selenide (Se²⁻) ionically and covalently bonded systems was observed. The selenides exhibit a shift range of approximately −700 to −100 ppm, as opposed to 700 to 1600 ppm for the compounds where there tends to be more direct covalent bonding to the selenium. The anisotropic hyperfine shift observed in NbSe₂ is shown to be axially symmetric, where the H₁₁ component is found to be normal to the Se3-trigonal plane.     

Magnetic circular dichroism of transition metal ions in solids—II K2NaGaF6: Cr3+

The absorption and MCD spectra of the ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}\text{→}{}^4\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}$, ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}$, ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}\text{→}{}^4\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{1g}}{}^{\mathrm{a}}$ and ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}\text{→}{}^4\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{1g}}{}^{\mathrm{b}}$ spin-allowed transitions of Cr³⁺ in K₂NaGaF₆ are reported. It is shown that transitions to the ${}^4\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{1g}}$. states are induced by T_1u vibratio the other spin-allowed transition, ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}\text{→}{}^4\text{T}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}$, there are three competing intensity mechanisms: electric dipole induced by T_1u vibrations, electric dipole induced by T_2u vibrations and magnetic dipole, and an estimate is made of the relative importance of these. The magnetic dipole ${}^4\text{A}{}_{\mathrm{2g}}\text{→}{}^2\text{E}{}_{\mathrm{g}}$ zero-phonon line is observed to be accompanied by a vibrational sideband for which the coupling is predominantly with T_2u vibrations. Other weak transitions are observed in MCD spectra and their origin briefly discussed.     

两种可溶性聚乙炔衍生物的飞秒发光动力学研究

采用飞秒频率上转换技术测量了两种可溶聚乙炔衍射生物ｐｏｌｙ（ｐｈｅｎｙｌａｃｅｔｙｌｅｎｅ（ＰＰＡ）和ｐｏｌｙ（１－ｐｈｅｎｙｌ－１－ｂｕｔｙ１）ＰＰＢ）的发光动力学过程。采用非均匀展宽态密我规行走理论对上述结果进行了分析。     

Aromatic polyethers,polysulfones, and polyketones as laminating resins. IV. Polymers with p-cyclophane units for crosslinking

1,3-Bis(p-phenoxybenzenesulfonyl)benzene, 4,4′-bis(p-phenoxybenzenesulfonyl)diphenyl ether, and 4,4′-diphenoxydiphenyl sulfone were polymerized with isophthaloyl or terephthaloyl chlorides in Friedel-Crafts type polymerizations. These polymers had [2,2]p-cyclophane units in the backbone, introduced by employing 3,9-bis(p-phenoxybenzoyl) [2.2]p-cyclophane as part of the polyaryl ether component. Thermolysis of the dimethylene bridge of the [2.2]p-cyclophane monomer produced diradicals which combined across polymer chains to provide crosslinks. p-Cyclophane polymers with 1,3-bis-(p-phenoxybenzenesulfonyl)benzene showed potential as high performance, thermally stable laminating resins.     

Constituents of Tabebuia guayacan: The structure of guayacanin

The heartwood of T. guayacan has yielded tectol and a new, novel dibenz-xanthene derivative (guayacanin). The structure of guayacanin suggests its biogenetic derivation through the condensation of prenylnaphthalene quinols. The tetrahydro derivative of the xanthene was synthesized by an analogous acid catalyzed reaction of prenylnaphthalene quinol derivatives of lapachol and 1,4 naphthalene diol.     

A NMR study of tetrathiofulvalene and tetracyanoquinodimethane: relative proton geometries and order parameters using nematic solvents; carbon-proton spin spin coupling constants for TTF

From proton magnetic resonance spectra of TTF and TCNQ partially oriented in nematic liquid crystal solvents the ratio of length to width of the proton rectangle is 3.124 ± 0.03 for TTF and 1.765 ± 0.024 for TCNQ. Values of J_CH obtained for TTF dissolved in d₆-acetone, are J_CH = 187.9 ± 0.3 Hz, J_CCH = 6.7 ±0.1 Hz and J_CSCH = 9.0 ±0.2 Hz.