Towards the systematic investigation οf European origins of North American watercraft

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-296
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. G. Fuller
1950 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 1-52
Author(s):  
Kaj Hansen

While there is an abundant literature on the sediments of Swedish, German and North American lakes, the bottom deposits of Danish lakes are nearly terra incognita. In spite of the paper on Lake Marl, Lake Ores and Lake Gytje published in 1901 by Wesenberg Lund a more systematic investigation has long been needed. In 1942 I therefore began an investigation of the sediments in Lake Tystrup Sø, Zealand (Sjælland), in co-operation with the Laboratory for Fresh Water Biology of the University of Copenhagen, and using the laboratory's annex in Suserup woods as a base. It is my aim to continue such investigations in other Danish lakes. It is my pleasant duty to thank the Director of the Laboratory for Fresh Water Biology, Prof. Kai Berg for that friendship which he has shown me during the investigation, both in the laboratory in Hillerød, and in Suserup. I also thank the Geological Survey of Denmark because it has agreed to include this paper in its publications, and lastly I thank the Carlsberg Fond who have subsidized the publication.


1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2592-2602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Pryer ◽  
Donald M. Britton ◽  
John McNeill

As part of a systematic investigation of the genus Gymnocarpium in North America, a survey of chromatographic profiles in species and hybrids of the genus was initiated. It was established through cluster analysis and ordination of the phenolic data that morphologically distinguishable taxa of Gymnocarpium can be recognized by their chromatographic profiles alone. These data provide supportive evidence for the recognition of G. robertianum and G. jessoense ssp. parvulum as distinct taxa and for the hybrid status of G. × intermedium. They also suggest that, as currently circumscribed, G. jessoense ssp. jessoense is a heterogeneous taxon.


Author(s):  
B. B. Rath ◽  
J. E. O'Neal ◽  
R. J. Lederich

Addition of small amounts of erbium has a profound effect on recrystallization and grain growth in titanium. Erbium, because of its negligible solubility in titanium, precipitates in the titanium matrix as a finely dispersed second phase. The presence of this phase, depending on its average size, distribution, and volume fraction in titanium, strongly inhibits the migration of grain boundaries during recrystallization and grain growth, and thus produces ultimate grains of sub-micrometer dimensions. A systematic investigation has been conducted to study the isothermal grain growth in electrolytically pure titanium and titanium-erbium alloys (Er concentration ranging from 0-0.3 at.%) over the temperature range of 450 to 850°C by electron microscopy.


Author(s):  
A. Strojnik ◽  
J.W. Scholl ◽  
V. Bevc

The electron accelerator, as inserted between the electron source (injector) and the imaging column of the HVEM, is usually a strong lens and should be optimized in order to ensure high brightness over a wide range of accelerating voltages and illuminating conditions. This is especially true in the case of the STEM where the brightness directly determines the highest resolution attainable. In the past, the optical behavior of accelerators was usually determined for a particular configuration. During the development of the accelerator for the Arizona 1 MEV STEM, systematic investigation was made of the major optical properties for a variety of electrode configurations, number of stages N, accelerating voltages, 1 and 10 MEV, and a range of injection voltages ϕ0 = 1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300 kV).


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan K. Saleh ◽  
Paula Folkeard ◽  
Ewan Macpherson ◽  
Susan Scollie

Purpose The original Connected Speech Test (CST; Cox et al., 1987) is a well-regarded and often utilized speech perception test. The aim of this study was to develop a new version of the CST using a neutral North American accent and to assess the use of this updated CST on participants with normal hearing. Method A female English speaker was recruited to read the original CST passages, which were recorded as the new CST stimuli. A study was designed to assess the newly recorded CST passages' equivalence and conduct normalization. The study included 19 Western University students (11 females and eight males) with normal hearing and with English as a first language. Results Raw scores for the 48 tested passages were converted to rationalized arcsine units, and average passage scores more than 1 rationalized arcsine unit standard deviation from the mean were excluded. The internal reliability of the 32 remaining passages was assessed, and the two-way random effects intraclass correlation was .944. Conclusion The aim of our study was to create new CST stimuli with a more general North American accent in order to minimize accent effects on the speech perception scores. The study resulted in 32 passages of equivalent difficulty for listeners with normal hearing.


1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 698-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Harris ◽  
Donald Fucci ◽  
Linda Petrosino

The present experiment was a preliminary attempt to use the psychophysical scaling methods of magnitude estimation and cross-modal matching to investigate suprathreshold judgments of lingual vibrotactile and auditory sensation magnitudes for 20 normal young adult subjects. A 250-Hz lingual vibrotactile stimulus and a 1000-Hz binaural auditory stimulus were employed. To obtain judgments for nonoral vibrotactile sensory magnitudes, the thenar eminence of the hand was also employed as a test site for 5 additional subjects. Eight stimulus intensities were presented during all experimental tasks. The results showed that the slopes of the log-log vibrotactile magnitude estimation functions decreased at higher stimulus intensity levels for both test sites. Auditory magnitude estimation functions were relatively constant throughout the stimulus range. Cross-modal matching functions for the two stimuli generally agreed with functions predicted from the magnitude estimation data, except when subjects adjusted vibration on the tongue to match auditory stimulus intensities. The results suggested that the methods of magnitude estimation and cross-modal matching may be useful for studying sensory processing in the speech production system. However, systematic investigation of response biases associated with vibrotactile-auditory psychophysical scaling tasks appears to be a prerequisite.


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