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Prosody in simultaneous interpreting. Pauses and intonation in a French-Dutch corpus
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Gent : s.n.,

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Doelstelling: Deze thesis is een aanzet tot onderzoek in prosodie bij simultaan tolken naar het Nederlands. Gaan tolken anders om met pauzes dan de brontekstspreker? Is er een verschil bij een gewone brontekst versus een snelle brontekst, en tussen acceptabele en onacceptabele vertolkingen? Voor intonatie wordt een verband gezocht tussen levendige of vlakke intonaties en excursiegroottes. Middelen of methode: In het pauzeonderzoek werden in een referentiepassage het aantal pauzes en hun gemiddelde lengte bij de brontekstspreker en de tolken onderzocht. Hetzelfde gebeurde voor een snelle passage. Vervolgens werden die resultaten naast elkaar gelegd. Tenslotte werden de tolken opgesplitst naargelang de aanvaardbaarheid van hun vertolking van de snelle tekst en onderling met elkaar vergeleken.In het intonatieonderzoek werden de tolken op basis van een twaalf seconden lang intonatiepatroon ingedeeld in potentieel levendige en vlakke intonatie. Deze hypothetische indeling werd aan de werkelijkheid getoetst. Resultaten: Uit het onderzoek bleek dat tolken minder maar langere pauzes maken dan de brontekstspreker, ook in de snelle passage. In de onacceptabele vertolking van de snelle passage bleken de pauzes veel langer dan in de acceptabele vertolking.De hypothetische indeling via intonatiepatronen klopt. De excursiegroottes zijn meer uitgesproken bij levendige tolken. Het intonatietype van een tolk kan dus met software bepaald worden.


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Microfluidics for Biosensing
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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There are 12 papers published with 8 research articles, 3 review articles and 1 perspective. The topics cover: Biomedical microfluidics Lab-on-a-chip Miniaturized systems for chemistry and life science (MicroTAS) Biosensor development and characteristics Imaging and other detection technologies Imaging and signal processing Point-of-care testing microdevices Food and water quality testing and control We hope this collection could promote the development of microfluidics and point-of-care testing (POCT) devices for biosensing.


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Microfluidics for Biosensing
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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There are 12 papers published with 8 research articles, 3 review articles and 1 perspective. The topics cover: Biomedical microfluidics Lab-on-a-chip Miniaturized systems for chemistry and life science (MicroTAS) Biosensor development and characteristics Imaging and other detection technologies Imaging and signal processing Point-of-care testing microdevices Food and water quality testing and control We hope this collection could promote the development of microfluidics and point-of-care testing (POCT) devices for biosensing.


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Microfluidics for Biosensing
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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There are 12 papers published with 8 research articles, 3 review articles and 1 perspective. The topics cover: Biomedical microfluidics Lab-on-a-chip Miniaturized systems for chemistry and life science (MicroTAS) Biosensor development and characteristics Imaging and other detection technologies Imaging and signal processing Point-of-care testing microdevices Food and water quality testing and control We hope this collection could promote the development of microfluidics and point-of-care testing (POCT) devices for biosensing.

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Technology: general issues --- amine functionalization --- graphene oxide --- immunosensor --- electrochemistry --- ferritin --- microfluidics --- synthesis --- nanoparticles --- microparticles --- integrated systems --- modularisation --- HFF-QCM (high fundamental frequency quartz crystal microbalance) --- mass transport --- flow cell --- biosensor --- food safety --- PoC (point of care) --- MQCM (monolithic quartz crystal microbalance) --- wearable biosensors --- biomedical microfluidics --- healthcare monitoring --- sports analytics --- microfluidic adsorption-based sensor --- stochastic model --- adsorption --- mass transfer --- ultimate noise performance --- detection limit --- quantification limit --- fluorescence-linked immunosorbent assay --- lab-on-a-disk --- vascular endothelial growth factor --- 3D microstructure --- high-frequency dielectrophoresis --- glioblastoma cells --- single cell manipulation --- microfluidic point-of-care device --- cancer stem cells --- microstructure topography --- PC12 cells --- neural differentiation --- capillary pressure control valve (CPCV) --- passive valve --- two-phase biocatalysis --- microfluidic droplets --- enzyme --- dental practice --- point-of-care diagnostics --- treatment monitoring --- oral health --- periodontitis --- caries --- saliva diagnostics --- Mycoplasma pneumoniae --- macrolides --- resistance mutations --- microfluidic --- 3D-printed --- sample-to-answer --- qPCR --- amine functionalization --- graphene oxide --- immunosensor --- electrochemistry --- ferritin --- microfluidics --- synthesis --- nanoparticles --- microparticles --- integrated systems --- modularisation --- HFF-QCM (high fundamental frequency quartz crystal microbalance) --- mass transport --- flow cell --- biosensor --- food safety --- PoC (point of care) --- MQCM (monolithic quartz crystal microbalance) --- wearable biosensors --- biomedical microfluidics --- healthcare monitoring --- sports analytics --- microfluidic adsorption-based sensor --- stochastic model --- adsorption --- mass transfer --- ultimate noise performance --- detection limit --- quantification limit --- fluorescence-linked immunosorbent assay --- lab-on-a-disk --- vascular endothelial growth factor --- 3D microstructure --- high-frequency dielectrophoresis --- glioblastoma cells --- single cell manipulation --- microfluidic point-of-care device --- cancer stem cells --- microstructure topography --- PC12 cells --- neural differentiation --- capillary pressure control valve (CPCV) --- passive valve --- two-phase biocatalysis --- microfluidic droplets --- enzyme --- dental practice --- point-of-care diagnostics --- treatment monitoring --- oral health --- periodontitis --- caries --- saliva diagnostics --- Mycoplasma pneumoniae --- macrolides --- resistance mutations --- microfluidic --- 3D-printed --- sample-to-answer --- qPCR


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The Voices of Nature : How and Why Animals Communicate
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ISBN: 0691236763 9780691236766 Year: 2023 Publisher: Prince­ton, United States of Amer­i­ca : Prince­ton University Press,

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"What messages do animals send to each other using sound? How can we decipher them? What lessons might these messages offer for understanding the origins and workings of our own communication? Scientists who study bioacoustics try and answer these questions, using physiology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology to understand how and why animals communicate via sound. In this book, Nicholas Mathevon offers readers an accessible overview of the field of bioacoustics, from the mechanisms of sound to its complex social function. Comprising short, accessible chapters, A Sound Journey explores how sound travels underwater, the act of hearing, and how animals use sounds inaudible to humans. Mathevon also shows how animals use sound to communicate in various circumstances, including parent-offspring relationships, conflict, expressions of emotion, and complex socialization. The study of acoustic communication enables a better understanding of the complexities of animal behavior, and the book uses examples from throughout the animal kingdom to illustrate how discoveries in bioacoustics have revealed various species' behaviors. In the final chapters, Mathevon explores animal "language" and the various philosophical and biological implications of this topic, both for various wild and domesticated species and for our understanding of how human communication systems developed"-- "Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animal communicate by sound. What is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, a dolphin's clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putting readers in the middle of animal soundscapes that range from the steamy heat of the Amazon jungle to the icy terrain of the Arctic, Mathevon reveals the amazing variety of animal vocalizations. He describes how animals use sound to express emotion, to choose a mate, to trick others, to mark their territory, to call for help, and much more. What may seem like random chirps, squawks, and cries are actually signals that, like our human words, allow animals to carry on conversations with others. Mathevon explains how the science of bioacoustics works to decipher the ways animals make and hear sounds, what information is encoded in these sound signals, and what this information is used for in daily life. Drawing on these findings as well as observations in the wild, Mathevon describes, among many other things, how animals communicate with their offspring, how they exchange information despite ambient noise, how sound travels underwater, how birds and mammals learn to vocalize, and even how animals express emotion though sound. Finally, Mathevon asks if these vocalization, complex and expressive as they are, amount to language. For readers who have wondered about the meaning behind a robin's song or the cicadas' relentless "tchik-tchik-tchik," this book offers a listening guide for the endlessly varied concert of nature"--

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Animal communication. --- Animal sounds. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior) --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience --- Animal language --- Animal communication --- Bioacoustics --- Nature sounds --- Animal biocommunication --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Language learning by animals --- Animal behavior --- Accuracy and precision. --- Acoustic wave. --- Amphibian. --- Anatomy. --- Animal language. --- Animal. --- Approximation. --- Atmospheric pressure. --- Bayes' theorem. --- Behavior. --- Biodiversity. --- Biologist. --- Bonobo. --- Botswana. --- Cartilage. --- Communication. --- Control theory. --- Coral reef. --- Data transmission. --- Dimension. --- Distress signal. --- Eardrum. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Ecotype. --- Effectiveness. --- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. --- Environmental noise. --- Ethology. --- Everyday life. --- Female. --- Formant. --- Fundamental frequency. --- Geology. --- Harmonic series (music). --- Human. --- Implementation. --- In the Water. --- Inner ear. --- Insect. --- Language. --- Larva. --- Larynx. --- Learning. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Literature. --- Loudspeaker. --- Mammal. --- Marine mammal. --- Measurement. --- Methodology. --- Microphone. --- Modulation. --- Motor control. --- Musical instrument. --- Natural environment. --- Nature Communications. --- Nature reserve. --- Network science. --- Nikolaas Tinbergen. --- Obstacle. --- Phenotype. --- Platt scaling. --- Prediction. --- Probability. --- Recursive definition. --- Responsiveness. --- Result. --- Reverberation. --- Rodent. --- Sea. --- Sensory neuron. --- Sexual selection. --- Simulation. --- Singing. --- Social group. --- Social influence. --- Sound localization. --- Sound recording and reproduction. --- Sound. --- Soundscape. --- Species. --- Sperm whale. --- Spoken language. --- Termite. --- The Sound World. --- Transmitter. --- Uniform Resource Locator. --- Usage. --- User interface. --- Vegetation. --- Vertebrate. --- Vibration. --- Vocal folds. --- Vocal learning. --- Vocal tract. --- Voice frequency. --- Warbler. --- Wildlife. --- Zoology.


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Buildings and Structures under Extreme Loads
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Exceptional loads on buildings and structures may have different causes, including high-strain dynamic effects due to natural hazards, man-made attacks, and accidents, as well as extreme operational conditions (severe temperature variations, humidity, etc.). All of these aspects can be critical for specific structural typologies and/or materials that are particularly sensitive to external conditions. In this regard, dedicated and refined methods are required for their design, analysis, and maintenance under the expected lifetime. There are major challenges related to the structural typology and material properties with respect to the key features of the imposed design load. Further issues can be derived from the need for risk mitigation or retrofit of existing structures as well as from the optimal and safe design of innovative materials/systems. Finally, in some cases, no appropriate design recommendations are available and, thus, experimental investigations can have a key role within the overall process. In this Special Issue, original research studies, review papers, and experimental and/or numerical investigations are presented for the structural performance assessment of buildings and structures under various extreme conditions that are of interest for design.

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History of engineering & technology --- damping device --- seismic design --- design base shear --- nonlinear response history analysis --- liquid storage tank --- earthquake --- wind --- dynamic response --- fluid–solid interaction --- composite shear wall --- seismic behavior --- quasi-static test --- design strength model --- bored-pile --- global strain extensometer --- pile friction resistance --- real-time monitoring --- snow–wind combined experiment facility --- snowdrift --- field observation --- scale experiments --- similarity criterion --- underwater explosion --- composite pressure hull --- whipping --- breathing --- failure index --- laminated glass (LG) --- free vibrations --- fundamental frequency --- mechanical restraints --- field experiments --- analytical modelling --- Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling --- super large cooling tower --- whole construction process --- wind vibration coefficient --- buckling stability --- ultimate bearing capacity --- snow load --- complex roof --- EOF analysis --- characteristics decomposition --- RABT fire curve --- fire simulation --- tunnel fire --- high temperature --- fire safety --- fire accident --- vertical earthquake motion --- seismic response --- atrium-style metro station --- shaking table test --- wind characteristics --- boundary layer --- typhoon --- hurricane --- field measurement --- train derailment --- derailment containment provisions --- collision testing --- post-derailment behavior --- slurry pipe jacking --- friction resistance --- effective friction coefficient --- pipe-soil-slurry interaction --- lubrication efficiency --- concrete --- blast load --- Monte Carlo analysis --- seismic demand --- pushover --- suction caisson --- suction penetration --- soil plug --- hydraulic gradient --- visual tests --- mountainous valley --- bridge site --- boundary transition section (BTS) --- numerical simulation --- wind tunnel test --- small radius TBM interval --- equivalent continuous model --- Winkler elastic foundation beam theory --- transfer matrix method --- horizontal axis deviation --- tall timber buildings --- timber composites --- seismic retrofitting --- Eurocode 8 --- structural assessment --- masonry buildings --- earthquakes --- seismic loads --- existing structures --- reliability --- rehabilitation --- risk --- blast loading --- welded haunch connection --- steel frame structures --- non-linear dynamic analysis --- ABAQUS --- multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) --- frame ductility ratio --- n/a --- fluid-solid interaction --- snow-wind combined experiment facility


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Buildings and Structures under Extreme Loads
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Exceptional loads on buildings and structures may have different causes, including high-strain dynamic effects due to natural hazards, man-made attacks, and accidents, as well as extreme operational conditions (severe temperature variations, humidity, etc.). All of these aspects can be critical for specific structural typologies and/or materials that are particularly sensitive to external conditions. In this regard, dedicated and refined methods are required for their design, analysis, and maintenance under the expected lifetime. There are major challenges related to the structural typology and material properties with respect to the key features of the imposed design load. Further issues can be derived from the need for risk mitigation or retrofit of existing structures as well as from the optimal and safe design of innovative materials/systems. Finally, in some cases, no appropriate design recommendations are available and, thus, experimental investigations can have a key role within the overall process. In this Special Issue, original research studies, review papers, and experimental and/or numerical investigations are presented for the structural performance assessment of buildings and structures under various extreme conditions that are of interest for design.

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damping device --- seismic design --- design base shear --- nonlinear response history analysis --- liquid storage tank --- earthquake --- wind --- dynamic response --- fluid–solid interaction --- composite shear wall --- seismic behavior --- quasi-static test --- design strength model --- bored-pile --- global strain extensometer --- pile friction resistance --- real-time monitoring --- snow–wind combined experiment facility --- snowdrift --- field observation --- scale experiments --- similarity criterion --- underwater explosion --- composite pressure hull --- whipping --- breathing --- failure index --- laminated glass (LG) --- free vibrations --- fundamental frequency --- mechanical restraints --- field experiments --- analytical modelling --- Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling --- super large cooling tower --- whole construction process --- wind vibration coefficient --- buckling stability --- ultimate bearing capacity --- snow load --- complex roof --- EOF analysis --- characteristics decomposition --- RABT fire curve --- fire simulation --- tunnel fire --- high temperature --- fire safety --- fire accident --- vertical earthquake motion --- seismic response --- atrium-style metro station --- shaking table test --- wind characteristics --- boundary layer --- typhoon --- hurricane --- field measurement --- train derailment --- derailment containment provisions --- collision testing --- post-derailment behavior --- slurry pipe jacking --- friction resistance --- effective friction coefficient --- pipe-soil-slurry interaction --- lubrication efficiency --- concrete --- blast load --- Monte Carlo analysis --- seismic demand --- pushover --- suction caisson --- suction penetration --- soil plug --- hydraulic gradient --- visual tests --- mountainous valley --- bridge site --- boundary transition section (BTS) --- numerical simulation --- wind tunnel test --- small radius TBM interval --- equivalent continuous model --- Winkler elastic foundation beam theory --- transfer matrix method --- horizontal axis deviation --- tall timber buildings --- timber composites --- seismic retrofitting --- Eurocode 8 --- structural assessment --- masonry buildings --- earthquakes --- seismic loads --- existing structures --- reliability --- rehabilitation --- risk --- blast loading --- welded haunch connection --- steel frame structures --- non-linear dynamic analysis --- ABAQUS --- multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) --- frame ductility ratio --- n/a --- fluid-solid interaction --- snow-wind combined experiment facility


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Buildings and Structures under Extreme Loads
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Exceptional loads on buildings and structures may have different causes, including high-strain dynamic effects due to natural hazards, man-made attacks, and accidents, as well as extreme operational conditions (severe temperature variations, humidity, etc.). All of these aspects can be critical for specific structural typologies and/or materials that are particularly sensitive to external conditions. In this regard, dedicated and refined methods are required for their design, analysis, and maintenance under the expected lifetime. There are major challenges related to the structural typology and material properties with respect to the key features of the imposed design load. Further issues can be derived from the need for risk mitigation or retrofit of existing structures as well as from the optimal and safe design of innovative materials/systems. Finally, in some cases, no appropriate design recommendations are available and, thus, experimental investigations can have a key role within the overall process. In this Special Issue, original research studies, review papers, and experimental and/or numerical investigations are presented for the structural performance assessment of buildings and structures under various extreme conditions that are of interest for design.

Keywords

History of engineering & technology --- damping device --- seismic design --- design base shear --- nonlinear response history analysis --- liquid storage tank --- earthquake --- wind --- dynamic response --- fluid-solid interaction --- composite shear wall --- seismic behavior --- quasi-static test --- design strength model --- bored-pile --- global strain extensometer --- pile friction resistance --- real-time monitoring --- snow-wind combined experiment facility --- snowdrift --- field observation --- scale experiments --- similarity criterion --- underwater explosion --- composite pressure hull --- whipping --- breathing --- failure index --- laminated glass (LG) --- free vibrations --- fundamental frequency --- mechanical restraints --- field experiments --- analytical modelling --- Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling --- super large cooling tower --- whole construction process --- wind vibration coefficient --- buckling stability --- ultimate bearing capacity --- snow load --- complex roof --- EOF analysis --- characteristics decomposition --- RABT fire curve --- fire simulation --- tunnel fire --- high temperature --- fire safety --- fire accident --- vertical earthquake motion --- seismic response --- atrium-style metro station --- shaking table test --- wind characteristics --- boundary layer --- typhoon --- hurricane --- field measurement --- train derailment --- derailment containment provisions --- collision testing --- post-derailment behavior --- slurry pipe jacking --- friction resistance --- effective friction coefficient --- pipe-soil-slurry interaction --- lubrication efficiency --- concrete --- blast load --- Monte Carlo analysis --- seismic demand --- pushover --- suction caisson --- suction penetration --- soil plug --- hydraulic gradient --- visual tests --- mountainous valley --- bridge site --- boundary transition section (BTS) --- numerical simulation --- wind tunnel test --- small radius TBM interval --- equivalent continuous model --- Winkler elastic foundation beam theory --- transfer matrix method --- horizontal axis deviation --- tall timber buildings --- timber composites --- seismic retrofitting --- Eurocode 8 --- structural assessment --- masonry buildings --- earthquakes --- seismic loads --- existing structures --- reliability --- rehabilitation --- risk --- blast loading --- welded haunch connection --- steel frame structures --- non-linear dynamic analysis --- ABAQUS --- multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) --- frame ductility ratio

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