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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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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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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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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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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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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Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi by Michaud, Alexis

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Investigation of the effects of self-myofascial release combined with static stretching on muscle parameters representing tone, elasticity and stiffness using the MyotonPRO by Tan, Dominic Swee Pin

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Designing an online task-based speaking skills module for TVET learners: Enhancing learner engagement and interaction by Mohd Khirulnizam, Musa, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim

“…Recognizing the pivotal role of speaking proficiency within TVET contexts, the paper meticulously examines the hurdles encountered by TVET learners in honing their speaking skills. In response to these challenges, it proposes a pioneering approach that merges task-based language teaching principles with technology-enhanced learning environments. …”
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The secret geographer: thinking aloud on legal engagements in scholar-activism by Brickell, K, Jeffrey, A, McConnell, F, Ahearn, A, Calkin, S, Klosterkamp, S

“…Activism tends to be understood as an intentional, planned-for, and public endeavour, yet the roundtable tells a more nuanced story. Honing in on the legal reveals experiences of scholar-activism that are also accidental, unexpected, and private, but which, we argue should equally ‘count’ and be ‘counted’ as examples of meaningful geographical engagement with social justice movements and endeavours. …”

Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals : retrospective before and after study by Hopewell, S, Collins, G, Boutron, I, Yu, L, Cook, J, Shanyinde, M, Wharton, R, Shamseer, L, Altman, D

“…Most changes requested by peer reviewers had a positive impact on the reporting of the final manuscript--for example, adding or clarifying randomisation and blinding (n=27), sample size (n=15), primary and secondary outcomes (n=16), results for primary or secondary outcomes (n=14), and toning down conclusions to reflect the results (n=27). …”

Demystifying the diagnostic potentials of air-conducted ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential test elicited by a custom-built chirp stimulus among patients with... by Abdallatif, Athar Mazen Rasmi

“…VEMP is typically recorded with the 500 Hz tone burst, however, a chirp stimulus, initially designed for auditory brainstem responses, is being used to explore VEMP's diagnostic potential. …”
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Audio-based approaches in tuning retrieval of gamelan ensemble by Hamdan, Sinin

“…When listening to its tones in a musical environment, individual harmonics of a complex tone and partial identification may be nearly impossible to discern by the human ear. …”
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The impact of environmental disclosure on initial public offering underpricing: sustainable development in Singapore by Kang, Eugene, Lam, Nguyen Bao

“…We provide new evidence that linguistic features, that is, tone and authenticity, interact to influence a key IPO outcome. …”
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SUPERHERO OF LOVE : HEAL YOUR BROKEN HEART & THEN GO SAVE THE WORLD / by Fonger, Bridget, 1962-, author 655765

“…Readers will develop and hone their powers of Super Sight, Super Hearing, Super Humility, Super Self-Love, and Super Alignment to build their connection to their own hearts, the ultimate source of love in their lives…”

Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding by Maggu, Akshay Raj, Wong, Patrick C. M., Antoniou, Mark, Bones, Oliver, Liu, Hanjun, Wong, Francis C. K.

“…We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. …”
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Foundations of Computer Vision / by Torralba, Antonio, author 655233, Isola, Phillip, author 655234, Freeman, William T., author 655235, The MIT Press (Online service) 655237

“…Written by leaders in the field and honed by a decade of classroom experience, this engaging and highly teachable book offers an essential next-generation view of computer vision. …”
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EFFECTIVE THREAT INVESTIGATION FOR SOC ANALYSTS : The ultimate guide to examining various threats and attacker techniques using security logs / by Yahia, Mostafa, author 656270

“…This book provides insights into the most common cyber threats and various attacker techniques to help you hone your incident investigation skills. The book begins by explaining phishing and email attack types and how to detect and investigate them, along with Microsoft log types such as Security, System, PowerShell, and their events. …”
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