Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi by Chen, Sherry Yong, Kenstowicz, Michael J.

“…This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. …”
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On Stone's representation theorem by Loo, Dong Lin

“…the Boolean algebra of all regular open subsets of X, RO(X). By Stone’s Representation Theorem, every Boolean algebra A is isomorphic to the clopen algebra of S(A), where S(A) denotes the Stone space of A. …”
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Study of Mandarin Chinese tones recognition by Ge, Liang.

“…In this dissertation, the Mandarin tones are recognized and represented graphically by using wavelet transform and fundamental frequency estimation methods. …”
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Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…Across both studies, we replicated the previously observed ‘u-curvy, i-pointy’ sound/shape cross-modal correspondence in all groups. However, Tones were mapped differently by people with different language backgrounds: speakers of Mandarin Chinese classified as Chinese-dominant systematically matched Tone 1 (high, steady) to the curvy shape and Tone 4 (falling) to the pointy shape, while English speakers with no knowledge of Chinese preferred to match Tone 1 (high, steady) to the pointy shape and Tone 3 (low, dipping) to the curvy shape. …”
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Twinkling effect in detecting kidney stones by Sung, Wei Pei

“…A Computed Tomography (CT) scan is usually the most effective way to detect kidney stones, since it holds a true positive rate of over 90%. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…Sharma 1989) Identify it as a tone language. To quote D. Sharma: The glottal fricative /h/ tends to be realized as high falling tone in a prepausal position, as in /meh/ = /me/. …”
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Crypto-linguistics in Singapore : deciphering the Singapore Stone by Chua, Sock Hui

“…The Singapore Stone was a sandstone with around 50 lines of inscription, but was blown up in 1843. …”
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Resource depletion through primate stone technology by Luncz, Lydia V, Tan, Amanda, Haslam, Michael, Kulik, Lars, Proffitt, Tomos, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda, Gumert, Michael David

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Effect of electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) message tone on brand attitude. by Goh, Pei Yong., Goh, Michelle Shu Zhen., Lin, Danqing.

“…Responses were compared between those who read the blog with a formal tone with those who read the blog with an informal tone. …”
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From Liquid to Stone: Reimagining the design of concrete structures for reuse by Donovan, Inge, Schnitzler, Jenna

“…In a future where buildings are increasingly seen as stockpiles for subsequent reuse, the reinvention of concrete structures is an imperative that presents an opportunity for a new tectonic – concrete is no longer a liquid poured once and cured on site, but instead is a material more akin to stone, retaining value across multiple lifespans.…”
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore by Alrifai, Hajar

“…Through creative writing and cinematic intervention, Echoes from the Stone asks: what does it mean to preserve a place, and preservation for whom? …”
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Banach-Stone Theorem for isometries on spaces of vector-valued differentiable functions by Leung, Denny H., Ng, Hong Wai, Tang, Wee Kee

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Modelling laser-induced vapour bubbles for lithotripsy treatment of kidney stones by Abrahams, S

“…While bubbles can have undesirable effects – for example, causing retropulsion of the stone – they can also be utilised to make stone ablation more efficient. …”

BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

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Mobilising stone: investigating relations of materiality, movement and corporality in Holocene Saharan rock-art by Waldock, V

“…Augmented by input from specialists in geomorphology, pastoralism, stone sculpting and animal behaviour, this movement-driven focus has produced a more developed picture of the Messak herder lives, advancing our understanding of these particular non-text, somatic societies.…”

Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…To examine whether cognitive mechanisms for music and speech are domain-general or domain-specific, researchers have studied the effects of musical training on lexical tone pitch processing. However, few studies have studied the effects in the long-term and among tone language speakers. …”
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Performance study of FFH/BFSK system with product-combining receiver over multi-tone jamming and AWGN channels by Hong, Tse Min.

“…In this dissertation, the performance of a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) spread spectrum (SS) communication system that employs a product-combining receiver in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel is studied.…”
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NTU's bachelor of business (banking) degree : a stepping stone for a career in the banking industry? by Lee, Emeline Bee Ling, Yap, Rebecca Mei Sian, Yuen, Wendy Woon Yoke

“…This led us to undertake the task as our research topic for our final-year applied research project: ''NTU Bachelor of Business (Banking) degree - a stepping stone for a banking career"?…”
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Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi by Michaud, Alexis

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Quantitative evaluation of stone fragments in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy using a time reversal operator by Wang, Jen-Chieh, Zhou, Yufeng

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