Prosodic phrasing is the segmentation of utterances into prosodic words, phonological phrases (smaller units) and intonational phrases (larger units) based on acoustic cues—pauses, pitch changes and pre-boundary lengthening. The perception of p...
The middle reaches of Heihe River are located in the oasis of the Gobi Desert where limited freshwater supply supports more than 1.5 million inhabitants. The intense agricultural activities are depleting the groundwater reserve. Consequently, natural...
Over the past few years, target detectors that utilize Convolutional Neural Networks have gained extensive application in the domain of remote sensing (RS) imagery. Recently, optimizing bounding boxes has consistently been a hot topic in the research...
Retinal vessel segmentation plays a crucial role in medical image analysis, aiding ophthalmologists in disease diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment guidance. However, due to the complex boundary structure and rich texture features in retinal blood ve...
Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between risk-taking behaviors, vestibular symptoms/impairment and perception–action coupling behavior in recently concussed adolescents. Methods: This study utiliz...
Mind–body practices such as meditation, yoga, and martial arts have been suggested to enhance flexible self-experience and psychological well-being. However, few studies have examined short-term effects of contemplative bodywork rooted in tradi...
Second language (L2) learners often struggle to process prosodic boundaries, which are essential for speech comprehension. This study investigated the nature of these difficulties and how first language (L1) cue-weighting strategies transfer to L2 pr...
This article introduces a long-range sensing system based on millimeter-wave radar, which is used to detect the roadside boundaries and track trains for trains. Due to the high speed and long braking distance of trains, existing commercial vehicle se...
Audio-only augmented reality consists of enhancing a real environment with virtual sound events. A seamless integration of the virtual events within the environment requires processing them with artificial spatialization and reverberation effects tha...
Ensemble coding allows observers to form an average to represent a set of elements. However, it is unclear whether observers can extract an average from a cross-category set. Previous investigations on this issue using low-level stimuli yielded contr...
Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to detect objects that seamlessly integrate with their surrounding environment and are thereby intractable to distinguish from the background. Existing approaches face difficulties in dynamically adapting to sc...
Teacher identity is a multidimensional construct that includes elements such as teachers’ perceptions of their responsibilities and the boundaries they place on those responsibilities. The purpose of this study was to examine how elements of te...
Road boundary detection is an important part of the perception of the autonomous driving. It is difficult to detect road boundaries of unstructured roads because there are no curbs. There are no clear boundaries on mine roads to distinguish areas wit...
This study investigates the role of information boundaries in organic food packaging and their impact on consumers’ purchase intentions, aiming to uncover how packaging information design can drive sustainable consumption. Although previous res...
Due to the static and dynamic activity of the skin temperature sensors, the cutaneous thermal afferent information is dependent on the rate and direction of the temperature change, which would suggest different perceptions of temperature and of therm...
This study introduces and examines the principle of accentuation as a novel mechanism in perceptual organization, analyzing its effects through the framework of Grossberg’s Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART). We demonstrate that localized accentua...
28 January 2023
This research examined the impact of COVID-19 risk perception on sense of control, testing the hypotheses that COVID-19 risk perception would reduce sense of control and that this effect would be mediated by death anxiety and moderated by Confucian c...
In early 2023, Surakarta City launched the 17 Priority Development Points program to improve the image of Surakarta City. Development was carried out at several strategic points, such as repairing road corridors and city boundary monuments. One of th...
Background/Objectives: Normative perceptual segmentation facilitates event perception, comprehension, and memory. Given that native English listeners’ normative perceptual segmentation of English speech streams coexists with a highly selective...
The present paper investigates the link between perception and production in the laryngeal phonology of multilingual speakers, focusing on non-contrastive segments and the dynamic aspect of these processes. Fourteen L1 Hungarian, L2 English, and L3 S...
Previous research on utilitarianism has focused predominantly on instrumental harm while neglecting the investigation of impartial beneficence. This study designed three progressive experiments (total n = 1378) to explore how impartial beneficence in...
Personal information has been likened to “golden data”, which companies have chased using every means possible. Via mobile apps, the incidents of compulsory authorization and excessive data collection have evoked privacy concerns and strong repercuss...
Categorization is a fundamental information processing phenomenon in the brain. It is critical for animals to compress an abundance of stimulations into groups to react quickly and efficiently. In addition to labels, categories possess an internal st...
This paper articulates how religious education can broaden our perspective on post-truth from simply an issue of critical reading to a philosophical challenge involving larger issues such as our sense of self, perception of others, and grounding of j...
To tackle the challenges posed by dense small objects and fuzzy boundaries on unstructured roads in the mining scenario, we proposed an end-to-end small object detection and drivable area segmentation framework for open-pit mining. We employed a conv...
Urban perception research has long focused on global metropolises, but has overlooked many cities with complex functions and spatial structures, resulting in insufficient universality of existing theories when facing diverse urban contexts. This stud...
Accurate weld seam recognition is essential in automated welding systems, as it directly affects path planning and welding quality. With the rapid advancement of industrial vision, weld seam instance segmentation has emerged as a prominent research f...
A critical step in object-oriented geospatial analysis (OBIA) is image segmentation. Segments determined from a lower-spatial resolution image can be used as the context to analyse a corresponding image at a higher-spatial resolution. Due to inherent...
To mitigate road-related problems such as safety and traffic congestion, the evolution towards cooperative communicating technologies and autonomous systems is considered a solution to overcome human physical limitations and the limited perception ho...
Humans segment speech naturally based on the transitional probabilities between linguistic elements. For bilingual speakers navigating between a first (L1) and a second language (L2), L1 knowledge can influence their perception, leading to transfer e...
Landslide deformation monitoring via InSAR is crucial for assessing the risk of hazards. Quick and accurate detection of active deformation zones is crucial for early warning and mitigation planning. While the application of deep learning has substan...
Although community gardens provide numerous economic, environmental, and social benefits, some have been lost to other land uses due to the lack of organized and effective public support. Knowledge about people’s attitudes and perceptions towar...
7 November 2023
The perception system is a safety-critical component that directly impacts the overall safety of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). It is imperative to ensure the robustness of the deep-learning model used in the perception system. However, studies h...
Continuous movements of the hand contain discrete expressions of meaning, forming a variety of semantic gestures. For example, it is generally considered that the bending of the finger includes three semantic states of bending, half bending, and stra...
23 July 2021
This study delineated the templestay experience in the context of the authenticity of tourism. To understand the phenomenon of templestay experience, the study applied the hermeneutic phenomenology method. Furthermore, the researcher tried to approac...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how existing regionalizations in the Republic of Croatia differ in their criteria for region separation, to identify their similarities and differences, and to outline the key characteristics of each defined re...
Increasingly, scientists are reaching out to individuals and entities once considered “users” of scientific knowledge to engage them in the research process due to the increased need for contextualized knowledge. However, these increased interactions...
This study presents evidence of second language (L2) influence on first language (L1) perception of alveolar stops. Sixty-one L1 Japanese late learners of L2 English (onset ~12 years old) in Japan (N = 31) and in the US (N = 30) participated. We exam...
Student mental health is a relevant aspect of the current academic context due to concerns regarding escalating mental health issues and because of an increasingly holistic perspective on education, learning, and personal development. This research i...
The rapid progress in deep learning technologies has accelerated the use of object detection models, but most models do not operate satisfactorily in low-light environments. As a result, many studies have been conducted on image enhancement technique...
Accurate and real-time environmental perception is essential for the safe and efficient execution of deep-sea mining operations. Semantic segmentation of forward-looking sonar (FLS) images plays a pivotal role in enabling environmental awareness for...
Control design of power-assist systems has been widely applied to human-robot interactive systems such as wearable exoskeleton systems, of which the range of motion limitation of human joints in the power-assist systems is essential. This paper prese...
The lack of young people engaged in agriculture threatens future food security and social balance. The agricultural sector and rural areas are experiencing an aging demography. The data confirm the global historical trend of a shortage of young peopl...
The collective efforts of various social actors from different sectors have contributed to climate change mitigation. Identifying the important antecedents of collaborative behavior to address climate change helps us understand the underlying process...
Background/Objectives: This study sets out to explore how L1 Mandarin speakers with varying lengths of L2 experience perceived English focus interrogative tune, L*H-H%, within the framework of the autosegmental–metrical model. Methods: Eighteen...
The perception of the landscape by the population is one of the themes introduced by the European Landscape Convention. Perception is the key to the integration between human and territorial activities, and between economic development and sustainabi...
In spatial analysis applications, measuring the shape similarity of polygons is crucial for polygonal object retrieval and shape clustering. As a complex cognition process, measuring shape similarity should involve finding the difference between poly...
The revised version of the Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) regards full-time equivalent (FTE), which involves the amount of L2 use during the length of residence (LOR) in an L2 setting, as the main factor in L2 speech acquisition. Previous studiesshowe...
The ability to rapidly and accurately delineate open-pit granite mining areas is pivotal for effective production planning and environmental impact assessment. Over the years, advancements in remote sensing techniques, including the utilization of sa...
A vast stream of literature has investigated the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firms’ financial performance (FFP). However, this effect has remained unclear and undecided. For instance, numerous studies have examined the di...
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