To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Ends with a vowel.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Ends with a vowel'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Ends with a vowel.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Mok, Pik Ki Peggy. "Influences on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284071.
Full text
2
Machado, Julio. "Loose Ends." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1256.
Full textAbstract:
Loose Ends is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that explores the multiple terrains of identity—individual, cultural, and historical. The poems embrace the essential incoherence of the self, resisting monolithic identity in favor of a multi-faceted, historically complex, imagistic rendering of the inner life. At its heart, the collection seeks to grapple with the gravitas of living: the continual assault of history and nature on human agency, the staggering context of the universe as a backdrop for communal and individual struggle. While single poems may only touch briefly or incompletely on these themes, the collection as a whole presents an admittedly inchoate picture of contemporary American identity.
3
Stein, Maya. "Ends of graphs." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=976135272.
Full text
4
Craik, Simon. "Ends of semigroups." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3590.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this thesis is to understand the algebraic structure of a semigroup by studying the geometric properties of its Cayley graph. We define the notion of the partial order of ends of the Cayley graph of a semigroup. We prove that the structure of the ends of a semigroup is invariant under change of finite generating set and at the same time is inherited by subsemigroups and extensions of finite Rees index. We prove an analogue of Hopfs Theorem, stating that a group has 1, 2 or infinitely many ends, for left cancellative semigroups and that the cardinality of the set of ends is invariant in subsemigroups and extension of finite Green index in left cancellative semigroups. We classify all semigroups with one end and make use of this classification to prove various finiteness properties for semigroups with one end. We also consider the ends of digraphs with certain algebraic properties. We prove that two quasi-isometric digraphs have isomorphic end sets. We also prove that vertex transitive digraphs have 1, 2 or infinitely many ends and construct a topology that reflects the properties of the ends of a digraph.
5
Shalom, Naama. "Ends of the Mahābhārata." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eef9d82e-859c-40f1-afc5-c0a9041c011b.
Full textAbstract:
The assertion that the Mahābhārata (MBh) narrative is innately incapable of achieving a conclusion has attained the status of a disciplinary truism in the epic’s study. My thesis challenges this prevalent assumption by proposing an un-investigated path of inquiry into the philological, historical, literary and semantic aspects of the epic. The thesis discusses the ending of the MBh, the Svargārohaṇa parvan (SĀ) by exploring several trajectories: the study of the SĀ in epic scholarship; its reception in the later tradition in Sanskrit literature; and finally, the problematic aspects of the SĀ and its relation to the rest of the narrative. It first points out that in comparison to other MBh episodes, the SĀ has been received with significant disregard or suppression in the literature commenting on the epic. Second, it characterizes the nature of the suppression of the SĀ in each of the three literary strands commenting on the MBh (epic scholarship, Sanskrit adaptations and theoretical discourses). It argues that all of these considerations, which are external to the MBh, have tended, in various modes, to suppress, ignore or overlook the importance of the SĀ. The thesis then proceeds to argue that on the most significant and internal level of the text itself, the SĀ is intrinsically consistent with the rest of the MBh narrative, and that this makes it thematically integral to the text as a whole. This argument derives from the importance with which this study addresses the moment of the condemnation of dharma in the SĀ, and is furthered by a philological and semantic study, as well as textual analyses of the multiple occurrences of the Sanskrit verb garh throughout the MBh. The use of this verb by the epic protagonist, Yudhiṣṭhira, in condemning his father, Dharma, at the last scenes of the SĀ comprises a key moment that bears significant and myriad implications upon the understanding of this pivotal concept (dharma), to which the entire epic is devoted.
6
Tserayi, Jonathan. "Thorny ends of roses." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6725.
Full text
7
Hardy, Stacy. "Where the body ends." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1021212.
Full textAbstract:
My collection of stories explores the intersection of the human body and the body of text via the tropes of disease and animality. Drawing on my experience of living with tuberculosis for many years, I attempt to write disease differently – not merely to be survived, overcome, cured, eradicated, but as something to be embraced via the Deleuzian affirmation of being worthy of what happens to us. Taking my cue from Sontag, I use a creaturely approach to writing, “an infinitely varied register of forms and tonalities for transporting the human voice into prose narrative”, emphasising the shared embodiedness of humans and animals so as to challenge the omnipotence of thought that subjugates and colonises the body as exclusively human.
8
McKenna, Sean Benedict. "The ends of morality." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2011. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/fdf627242f997eaaec117e2c79ebb71b1473113882cbee27bb12b8a45652590b/1362073/64992_downloaded_stream_217.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
The thesis looks at the part played by failure in the life of the moral actor; the importance of integration between different facets of the moral actor's life; the possibility of being obliged to do evil; and the scope of morality. Essential to the moral actor is the ability to choose to accept failure or defeat on moral grounds; to have capabilities to further a cause but to forsake those capabilities because of a belief in their application being illicit, evil and immoral. Over the course of the thesis we will discuss the different ways in which we might fail both practically and morally. The moral actor will, at times, be unable to achieve particular desired outcomes due to practical limits to her personal powers. However, if it is a moral rather than a practical limit, and if the outcome of her failing negatively affects others, the freedom of the moral actor to be constrained by the limit will come under a great deal of strain. A consideration of the way in which this strain ought and ought not be relieved is the work of this thesis. The necessary singularity of her moral position, and the multiplicity of roles and obligations connected to her is apt to generate for her conflict. Because this occasion for conflict exists, there may be a temptation to engineer a disintegration of the moral actor's moral position. Such a move needs to be avoided, as it leaves the moral actor bereft of a suitably conjunctive view of herself from which she might make determinations on matters of moral significance. The moral agent or actor whose life and differing roles are poorly integrated is not well placed for discerning between conflicting putative obligations.
9
Ringen, Catherine O. "Vowel harmony theoretical implications /." New York : Garland, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18105466.html.
Full text
10
Quinn-Wriedt, Lindsey Taylor. "Vowel harmony in Maasai." Thesis, The University of Iowa, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3595145.
Full textAbstract:
<p> This dissertation focuses on vowel harmony in Maasai, an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania. The main goal of this dissertation is to determine whether an adequate account of the Maasai pattern of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony can be formulated in Optimality Theory. Ultimately it is seen that it can, relying on directional Maximal Licensing constraints Walker (2011). Maasai is a language with dominant-recessive harmony. There are two sets of vowels—ATR and non-ATR. A word can only include members of one vowel set; if there is an AT R vowel anywhere in a word, all vowels will be ATR in the output. The only exception to this is the non-ATR low vowel, which lacks an ATR counterpart. It is opaque—it does not harmonize and it blocks the spread of harmony if it is followed by an ATR vowel, but it harmonizes to [o] when preceded by an ATR vowel. </p><p> All earlier analyses have been based on mainly one source, Tucker and Mpaayei (1955). To avoid using inaccurate or inaccurate data, the data analyzed in this thesis were collected from native speakers in Arusha, Tanzania. Earlier accounts have been based on impressionistic transcriptions. Acoustic analysis of the data were performed to explore the properties of the vowels. The height of the first formant was found to be the most robust acoustical cue to differentiate ATR and non-ATR vowels, though the height of the second formant has some use as a secondary cue. Like many previous studies of languages with an ATR contrast, in this study, it was found that the ATR vowels in Maasai have lower F1s than their non-ATR counterparts (Ladefoged 1964, Lindau et al. 1972, Lindau 1976, Jacobson 1980, Hess 1992, Maddieson and Gordon 1996, Fulop et al. 1998, Anderson 1999, 2007, Przezdziecki 2005, Gick et al. 2006, Starwalk 2008, Kang and Ko 2012). Guion (2004)'s acoustic analysis of Maasai, which showed that ATR and non-ATR vowels in minimal pairs or near minimal pairs differ in F1 was confirmed. Unlike previous research, vowels that have undergone harmony were also investigated. It was observed that not only does Maasai show an ATR/ non-ATR distinction, but that the harmony process is neutralizing. An ATR suffix will force a non-ATR root to harmonize, and an ATR root will force a non-ATR prefix to harmonize. The vowel that has undergone harmony to become ATR is not distinguishable from one is always ATR. It was also found that distance from the trigger (the ATR vowel that causes harmony) does not affect the harmony process. </p><p> Maasai has been described as having one lexically ATR prefix which causes only less peripheral prefixes to harmonize (Tucker and Mpaayei 1955, Mol 1995, 1996). This claim was investigated, but no acoustic evidence was found to support the claim that there is an ATR prefix. Instead, it is suggested that the perception of the prefix as ATR arises from coarticulatory effects that are the result of the unique environment of the prefix. Acoustic analysis of prefixes preceding the putative ATR prefix were found to be non-ATR. </p><p> Although previous OT analyses of Maasai have been either unduly complex, incapable of accounting for all the data or have dismissed elements of the harmony as morphological, the harmony system can be accounted for rather simply with two directional harmony constraints. Walker (2011) suggests that languages which appear to demonstrate one bidirectional harmony process might actually be the result of two unidirectional harmony processes. The analysis of Maasai presented her supports this suggestion. There are two directional Maximal Licensing constraints which are high-ranked there is another constraint that must be ranked between them to account for the asymmetric behavior of the low vowel.</p>
11
Pickering, J. B. "Auditory vowel formant variability." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375999.
Full text
12
Rodgers, Jonathan. "Vowel devoicing in English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313845.
Full text
13
Szeredi, Daniel. "Exceptionality in vowel harmony." Thesis, New York University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192255.
Full textAbstract:
<p> Vowel harmony has been of great interest in phonological research. It has been widely accepted that vowel harmony is a phonetically natural phenomenon, which means that it is a common pattern because it provides advantages to the speaker in articulation and to the listener in perception. </p><p> Exceptional patterns proved to be a challenge to the phonetically grounded analysis as they, by their nature, introduce phonetically disadvantageous sequences to the surface form, that consist of harmonically different vowels. Such forms are found, for example in the Finnish stem <i>tuoli</i> 'chair' or in the Hungarian suffixed form <i><b>hi:d-hoz</b></i> 'to the bridge', both word forms containing a mix of front and back vowels. There has recently been evidence shown that there might be a phonetic level explanation for some exceptional patterns, as the possibility that some vowels participating in irregular stems (like the vowel [i] in the Hungarian stem <i> hi:d</i> 'bridge' above) differ in some small phonetic detail from vowels in regular stems. The main question has not been raised, though: does this phonetic detail matter for speakers? Would they use these minor differences when they have to categorize a new word as regular or irregular?</p><p> A different recent trend in explaining morphophonological exceptionality by looking at the phonotactic regularities characteristic of classes of stems based on their morphological behavior. Studies have shown that speakers are aware of these regularities, and use them as cues when they have to decide what class a novel stem belongs to. These sublexical phonotactic regularities have already been shown to be present in some exceptional patterns vowel harmony, but many questions remain open: how is learning the static generalization linked to learning the allomorph selection facet of vowel harmony? How much does the effect of consonants on vowel harmony matter, when compared to the effect of vowel-to-vowel correspondences?</p><p> This dissertation aims to test these two ideas --- that speakers use phonetic cues and/or that they use sublexical phonotactic regularities in categorizing stems as regular or irregular --- and attempt to answer the more detailed questions, like the effect of consonantal patterns on exceptional patterns or the link between allomorph selection and static phonotactic generalizations as well. The phonetic hypothesis is tested on the Hungarian antiharmonicity pattern (stems with front vowels consistently selecting back suffixes, like in the example <i>hi:d-hoz</i> 'to the bridge' above), and the results indicate that while there may be some small phonetic differences between vowels in regular and irregular stems, speakers do not use these, or even enhanced differences when they have to categorize stems.</p><p> The sublexical hypothesis is tested and confirmed by looking at the disharmonicity pattern in Finnish. In Finnish, stems that contain both back and certain front vowels are frequent and perfectly grammatical, like in the example <i> tuoli</i> 'chair' above, while the mixing of back and some other front vowels is very rare and mostly confined to loanwords like <i>amatøøri </i> 'amateur'. It will be seen that speakers do use sublexical phonotactic regularities to decide on the acceptability of novel stems, but certain patterns that are phonetically or phonologically more natural (vowel-to-vowel correspondences) seem to matter much more than other effects (like consonantal effects).</p><p> Finally, a computational account will be given on how exceptionality might be learned by speakers by using maximum entropy grammars available in the literature to simulate the acquisition of the Finnish disharmonicity pattern. It will be shown that in order to clearly model the overall behavior on the exact pattern, the learner has to have access not only to the lexicon, but also to the allomorph selection patterns in the language.</p>
14
Gabriel, Melia. "This Is How It Ends." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2019. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/792.
Full text
15
Wright, Hollis G. "Means, ends and medical care /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055725.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-280). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055725.
16
Zhou, Hong. "Vowel systems in Mandarin languages." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/NQ45731.pdf.
Full text
17
Lijzenga, Johannes. "Discrimination of simplified vowel spectra." [S.l. : [Groningen] : s.n.] ; [University Library Groningen] [Host], 1997. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/156418908.
Full text
18
Motte, Mercy. "Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Ewe." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for språk og litteratur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-24097.
Full textAbstract:
Vowel hiatus (two adjacent vowels or a sequence of two vowels in different syllables) is one phonological phenomenon that is seen in many languages including Ewe a Kwa language found in Ghana and a few other countries. Environments for vowel hiatus as discussed in this thesis are the juxtaposition of different lexical categories (noun, verb, adjective and possessive marker „ϕé‟) and compounds (noun+noun). In a context as this, languages depend on several mechanisms to break the cluster which Ewe is no exception. The methodology used included recordings of naturally occurring spoken data collected as native speakers went about their daily activities. Other few examples were taken from literatures, my knowledge of the language as a native speaker also gave lots of insights. Again, interviews on the subject were carried out. The study is built around two theories – Autosegmental theory and Optimality theory as these theories helped in the discussions found in the thesis. The study resulted in the following discoveries: Resolving vowel hiatus in Ewe is always by deleting one of the two adjacent or juxtaposed vowels. Deletion though the best in the resolution process results in resyllabification as syllables are affected. The deletion of the vowel does not always result in the loss of its tone too. Very often tones especially high tones are preserved which finally dock on new preferred neighbouring hosts. The tonal stability pattern seems to indicate that high tones are present underlyingly while low tones are quite often not. With the juxtaposition of different lexical categories as seen in the thesis such as verb+noun, adjective+noun and possessive particle ϕé+noun, in the case of elision, the target is very often other categories other than nouns. However, there were a few cases where prefixes of nouns dropped instead. Meaning that positional faithfulness in the category noun as argued cannot always be the case. When two juxtaposed vowels /e+a/ that is the final /e/ of a verb and the initial /a/ of a noun (in this order), the target in the event of deletion is always the final /e/ of the verb.
19
Lea, Andrew P. "Auditory modelling of vowel perception." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315235.
Full text
20
Peters, C. J. "Speech enhancement and vowel perception." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379266.
Full text
21
Chapter, Joanne Elizabeth. "Phonological balance in vowel systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613140.
Full text
22
Swanepoel, Rikus. "Vowel perception in severe noise." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22971.
Full textAbstract:
A model that can accurately predict speech recognition for cochlear implant (CI) listeners is essential for the optimal fitting of cochlear implants. By implementing a CI acoustic model that mimics CI speech processing, the challenge of predicting speech perception in cochlear implants can be simplified. As a first step in predicting the recognition of speech processed through an acoustic model, vowel perception in severe speech-shaped noise was investigated in the current study. The aim was to determine the acoustic cues that listeners use to recognize vowels in severe noise and make suggestions regarding a vowel perception predictor. It is known that formants play an important role in quiet, while in severe noise the role of formants is still unknown. The relative importance of F1 and F2 is also of interest, since the masking of noise is not always evenly distributed over the vowel spectrum. The problem was addressed by synthesizing vowels consisting of either detailed spectral shape or formant information. F1 and F2 were also suppressed to examine the effect in severe noise. The synthetic stimuli were presented to listeners in quiet and signal-to-noise ratios of 0 dB, -5 dB and -10 dB. Results showed that in severe noise, vowels synthesized according to the whole-spectrum were recognized significantly better than vowels containing only formants. Multidimensional scaling and FITA analysis indicated that formants were still perceived and extracted by the human auditory system in severe noise, especially when the vowel spectrum consisted of the whole spectral shape. Although F1 and F2 vary in importance in listening conditions of quiet and less noisy conditions, the role of the two cues appears to be similar in severe noise. It was suggested that not only the availability formants, but also details of the vowel spectral shape can help to predict vowel recognition in severe noise to a certain degree.<br>Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2013.<br>Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering<br>unrestricted
23
Bergem, Dick Robert van. "Acoustic and lexical vowel reduction /." Amsterdam : IFOTT, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37473080p.
Full text
24
Anderson, Stephanie. "Vowel-Consonant Interaction in Madurese." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227267.
Full textAbstract:
Madurese, a Malayo-Polynesian language, is of particular interest to theories of vowel harmony and feature geometry because of the interaction of consonants with vowels, and the problem of representing both transparent and opaque segments within the same language. Vowels divide into two sets, occuring exclusively after each of two sets of consonants. Isolation of this process is somewhat complicated by loan words showing no alternation or containing non -native vowels or consonants. In this paper I will examine vowel- consonant interaction in native Madurese words. All data are from H.N. Kiliaan (1904), Madoereesch- Nederlandsch Woordenboek. and Stevens (1968), Madurese Phonology and Morphology, along with additional data from Stevens (1980), "Formative Boundary in Phonological Rules."
25
Fries, Matthias. "Planar antennas for integrated front-ends /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=15880.
Full text
26
Ricieri, Marina Marcia [UNESP]. "Decomposição de grupos e invariantes ends." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94235.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0
Previous issue date: 2007-04-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:06:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1
ricieri_mm_me_sjrp.pdf: 537434 bytes, checksum: e4a423e62415a76e55314da105c70574 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Um grupo G se decompõe sobre um subgrupo S se G þe um produto livre com subgrupo amalgamado S ou uma extensão HNN. Neste trabalho, propusemo-nos a relacionar, sob alguns aspectos, decomposição de grupos e invariantes ends. Mais precisamente, demonstramos os teoremas da forma normal para produtos livres com subgrupo amalgamado e extensões HNN e apresentamos alguns resultados relativos `a teoria de grafos, ends de grupos e pares de grupos, finalizando com a prova de um teorema de Kropholler e Roller, sobre decomposição de grupos, envolvendo a obstrução sing.<br>A group G splits over a subgroup S if G is a free product with amalgamated subgroup S or an HNN extension. In this work, we are concerned in relating, under some aspects, splittings of groups and invariants ends. More precisely, we prove the theorems normal forms for free products with amalgamated subgroup and HNN extensions and we present some results related with the theory of graphs, ends of groups and pairs of groups, concluding with the proof of a theorem by Kropholler and Roller, on decomposition of groups, involving the obstruction sing.
27
Sides, Susan. "Loose Ends A collection of stories /." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435209.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing)--S.M.U.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed July 16, 2007). Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2546. Adviser: David Haynes. Includes bibliographical references.
28
Klein, Tom. "Filtered ends of pairs of groups." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
Find full text
29
Urseth, Hågen. "Design of Beam Ends with Copes." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for konstruksjonsteknikk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22652.
Full textAbstract:
Coping of beams is usually done in order to allow for clearance at connections, but doing so reduces the beams strength and makes it susceptible to local web buckling at the coped section. Due to this reduction of the beam's strength, it was of interest to reinforce the web at the coped end. Previous researchers have proposed several design recommendations for reinforcement of coped beams. Possible measures involves welding on endplates or use of bolted connections at the coped end, and provision of stiffeners at the coped region.In this thesis a numerical study on the coped beam's strength and behaviour is presented. Nonlinear finite element analyses have been conducted to predict the structural behaviour and capacities of coped beams with varying cope dimensions. The beam was strengthened by either restraining the coped end from lateral translation or by provision of stiffeners at the coped region.The effect of restraining the coped end depended on the cope dimensions. For cope length-to-reduced beam hight ratios lesser than 1 (c/h_0 < 1), restrainment of the coped end would successfully increase the beams capacity. For ratios equal to or more than one (c/h_0 >= 1), the effect was negligible. Reinforcement in longitudinal direction only did not prevent the occurence of local web buckling, so that the recommended reinforcement details of the coped beam included a combination of stiffeners in both vertical and longitudinal direction for which the beam was able to develop the plastic moment capacity of the full beam section without any significant sideways rigid body movement of the longitudinal stiffeners. The proposed design recommendations considers the webs slenderness and coped dimensions. For coped beams with web depth-to-thickness ratios (h_w/t_w) less than or equal to 58 and cope length-to-reduced web hight ratios (c/h_0) less than one, longitudinal and vertical stiffeners were required while double vertical stiffeners were required for cope ratios equal to or more than 1. For coped beams with web depth-to-thickness ratio more than 58 and less than or equal to 67 and cope ratios less than or equal to 0.5 vertical and longitudinal stiffeners were required, while double vertical stiffeners were required for cope ratios of more than 0.5.
30
Siedziako, Bartosz. "Analysis of beam ends with copes." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for konstruksjonsteknikk, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25632.
Full textAbstract:
The reaction of the ultimate loads predicted by the FEM analyses to the real values obtained in the laboratory ranges from 0,964 to 0,998 which can be considered as a very accurate. It means that the results from analyses underestimate capacity of the cross-section from 0,2% to 3,56% with 1,49% as a middle value for all six specimens. For reinforced by stiffeners samples it turned out that although HAZ effect decrease dramatically properties of the material, zone of the HAZ is not large and welding additional stiffeners can actually be very good solution for reinforcement of the beam. HAZ effect have different influence on the capacity of the beam and it can decreased it from 3,5% to even 42,3%. But still when it will be taken into account that the ultimate forced can be more than twice larger these numbers are not big. The best type of reinforcement is when longitudinal stiffener with vertical at the cope corner is used.
31
Clow, Andrew David Menzies. "Ends of groups : a computational approach." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55730/.
Full textAbstract:
We develop ways in which we can find the number of ends of automatic groups and groups with solvable word problem. In chapter 1, we provide an introduction to ends, splittings, and computa- tion in groups. We also remark that the `JSJ problem' for finitely presented groups is not solvable. In chapter 2, we prove some geometrical properties of Cayley graphs that underpin later computational results. In chapter 3, we study coboundaries (sets of edges which disconnect the Cayley graph), and show how Stallings' theorem gives us finite objects from which we can calculate splittings. In chapter 4, we draw the results of previous chapters together to prove that we can detect zero, two, or infinitely many ends in groups with `good' automatic structures. We also prove that given an automatic group or a group with solvable word problem, if the group splits over a finite subgroup, we can detect this, and explicitly calculate a finite subgroup over which it splits. In chapter 5 we give an exposition of Gerasimov's result that one- endedness can be detected in hyperbolic groups. In chapter 6, we give an exposition of Epstein's boundary construction for graphs. We prove that a testable condition for automatic groups implies that this boundary is uniformly path-connected, and also prove that infinitely ended groups do not have uniformly path-connected boundary. As a result we are able to sometimes detect one endedness (and thus solve the problem of how many ends the group has).
32
Lopes, Onorio Ana Claudia. "Relative ends and splittings of groups." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/428055/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis is motivated by a long-standing conjecture on groups with Bredon cohomological dimension one and their action on trees with stabilisers in a specific family of subgroups. Chapter 1 consists of the first approach to deal with the problem following steps of known results for families of finite and virtually cyclic subgroups. As a consequent of this attempt, we answer a question on the Bredon cohomological and geometric dimension of free abelian groups with finite rank. The Main Theorem in Chapter 2 provides a partial answer to Kropholler's Conjecture on splittings of groups, which has been thought to be an alternative step for the proof of the conjecture stated in Chapter 1. We define the notion of relative ends, commensurable subgroups, almost invariant sets and the relation between those and splittings of groups, or equivalently, actions on trees with special stabilisers.
33
Lobo, Marisa. "BPI: trying to make ends meet." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10275.
Full text
34
Ricieri, Marina Marcia. "Decomposição de grupos e invariantes ends /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94235.
Full textAbstract:
Orientador: Ermínia de Lourdes Campello Fanti<br>Banca: Maria Gorete Carreira Andrade<br>Banca: Pedro Luiz Queiroz Pergher<br>Resumo: Um grupo G se decompõe sobre um subgrupo S se G þe um produto livre com subgrupo amalgamado S ou uma extensão HNN. Neste trabalho, propusemo-nos a relacionar, sob alguns aspectos, decomposição de grupos e invariantes ends. Mais precisamente, demonstramos os teoremas da forma normal para produtos livres com subgrupo amalgamado e extensões HNN e apresentamos alguns resultados relativos 'a teoria de grafos, ends de grupos e pares de grupos, finalizando com a prova de um teorema de Kropholler e Roller, sobre decomposição de grupos, envolvendo a obstrução sing.<br>Abstract: A group G splits over a subgroup S if G is a free product with amalgamated subgroup S or an HNN extension. In this work, we are concerned in relating, under some aspects, splittings of groups and invariants ends. More precisely, we prove the theorems normal forms for free products with amalgamated subgroup and HNN extensions and we present some results related with the theory of graphs, ends of groups and pairs of groups, concluding with the proof of a theorem by Kropholler and Roller, on decomposition of groups, involving the obstruction sing.<br>Mestre
35
Aparin, Vladimir. "Linearization of CDMA receiver front-ends /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3167860.
Full text
36
Karlsson, Fredrik, and Jan van Doorn. "Applying the Vowel Formant Dispersion (VFD) method to the study of reduced or alterered vowel productions." Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-74416.
Full textAbstract:
Formant centre frequencies are regularly used as acoustic measure of vowel quality because of the well established correlation between them and properties of vowel production(Fant, 1960). While it is recognised that it is important transform formant frequencies, as measured from the spectrogram, into relevant psychoacoustic scales when addressing issues of vowel perception, production studies are still largely based on the the raw, Hz-scaled, formant measurements. As a consequence, systematic studies of vowel articulation proficiency due to clinical conditions or effects of treatment are not easily afforded. A number of derived measures have been proposed to capture whole-system effect of vowel production. Previous research has primarily used the calculated total area of formants measured from either [a], [u], [i] and [æ] or only [a], [u] and [i] productions, joined together to form a quadrilateral or a triangle (Vowel space area, VSA)(Kent & Kim, 2003). In the reduced articulatory range of hypokinetic dysarthria, VSA is expected to be reduced by the dysarthria, and increased due to successful treatment the patient’s articulatory range. However, VSA has been proposed to be not powerful enough to capture effects on vowel articulation found specifically in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and therefore not able to establish treatment effects. Two alternative measures have been proposed previously that are more focused towards specifically towards finding expansion and reductions in vowel spaces, the Vowel articulation index (VAI)(Roy, Nissen, Dromey, & Sapir, 2009) or Formant Centralization Ratio (FCR)(Sapir, Ramig, Spielman, & Fox, 2010). Both VAI and FCR has been shown to be able to establish significant reductions vowel articulation due to PD. Similar to VSA, however, the VAI and FCR measures do not given any detailed insight into the nature of the change in articulation. Further, all three measures reduces all obtained vowel formant measurements into a single metric, resulting in a substantial loss of statistical power and a considerable reduction in quality of intra-speaker models of articulatory proficiency. In response to the problematic properties of previous metrics, a revised view of formant frequencies more suitable for studies of changes in vowel articulation has recently been outlined, along with a new metric (Vowel Formant Dispersion, VFD). The VFD view of vowel formants are more closely connected to properties of vowel articulation and therefore affords more more detailed interpretations to be drawn concerning speakers’ production proficiency and offers increased reliability of within speaker estimates of this proficiency. This paper presents a detailed view of how VFD may applied to clinical populations where vowel production is affected by the condition (e.g. hypokinetic dysarthria) or where production should be affected (e.g. transexual patients or in successful treatment of dysarthric patients). It will be shown that most aspects of the study of vowel articulation proficiency will be significantly enhanced by the VFD method. Fant, G. (1960). Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. Mouton and Co 's-Gravenhage. Karlsson, F. (submitted). Vowel Formant Dispersion: a revised view of vowel production. The Journal of Acoustical Society of America. Kent, R. D., & Kim, Y.-J. (2003). Toward an acoustic typology of motor speech disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 17(6), 427–445. Informa Allied Health. doi:10.1080/0269920031000086248 Roy, N., Nissen, S. L., Dromey, C., & Sapir, S. (2009). Articulatory changes in muscle tension dysphonia: evidence of vowel space expansion following manual circumlaryngeal therapy Journal of communication disorders, Journal of communication disorders, 42(2), 124–135. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.10.001 Sapir, S., Ramig, L. O., Spielman, J. L., & Fox, C. (2010). Formant Centralization Ratio: A Proposal for a New Acoustic Measure of Dysarthric Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(1), 114–114.
37
Shirai, Setsuko. "Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8381.
Full text
38
Bekoz, Alican. "Modeling Of Plosive To Vowel Transitions." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608804/index.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis presents a study concerning stop consonant to vowel transitions which are modeled making use of acoustic tube model.
Characteristics of the stop consonant to vowel transitions are tried to be obtained first. Therefore several transitions including fricative to vowel transitions are examined based on spectral and time related properties. In addition to these
studies, x-ray snapshots, lip videos and also experiments including subjects are used to intensify the characterization, from the production and the perception side of views. As results of these studies the plosive to vowel transitions are observed to be uttered by exponential vocal tract movements and the perception mechanism is observed to be highly related with exponential spectral changes.
A model, based on the acoustic tube model, is tried to be established using the knowledge and the experience gained during characterization therefore proposed model involves the vocal tract parameters observed in characterization part.
Finally, plosive to vowel transitions including three types of plosives (alveolar, labial and velar) are synthesized by the proposed model. The formants of the synthesized sounds are compared with the formants of the natural sounds. Also the intelligibility tests of these sounds are done. Performance evaluation tests show the proposed model&rsquo<br>s performance to be satisfactory.
39
Pegg, Lauren Jane. "Phonological vowel disorders : a case study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30271.
Full textAbstract:
The purposes of the present study were: 1) to provide descriptions, both phonological and acoustic, of the vowel system of a child who exhibited a phonological disturbance in his vowel system, and 2) to examine the effects that intervention targeting consonants would have on his vowel system. No specific hypotheses were proposed, although it was implied that there would be some effect.
The subject, S, was one of six subjects in a doctoral research study investigating the application of non-linear phonological theory to the assessment and remediation of developmental phonological disorders. The data were selected from the initial assessment session and a reassessment after two blocks of intervention. Both phonological and acoustic analyses of the data were performed. Acoustic measurements included the fundamental frequency and the frequencies of the first and second formants for each phone.
The data showed that S had a large phonetic inventory of vowels with a high proportion of vowel errors. Phonemes exhibited considerable variability but one primary phone could usually be identified. Significant in the phonological description were the following: 1) a high front vowel, a back rounded vowel, a low vowel, and a central vowel were among those most accurately produced by S, 2) there were a significant number of errors in the non-high, unrounded phonemes, and 3) /u/ exhibited a high proportion of errors. In general, errors were not sensitive to consonantal context. Acoustically, while the formant patterns for each phone differed from the others, S's vowels were found to be different in some ways from normal. Specifically, the frequency of F2 for his back vowels is higher than expected and the frequency of Fl for /a/ is lower than expected. In addition to some differences in formant frequency, the acoustic data on S's vowels show much more variability than normal.
Changes in the data occurred, both phonologically and acoustically, between the pre-and post-treatment assessment Changes included: 1) improvement in the accurate production of /u/, 2) shifts in the phonetic representation of non-high, unrounded vowels, 3) a decrease in random phonemic error, 4) a decrease in the second formant frequency of back vowels and an increase in first formant frequency of /a/, 5) a decrease in variability of both first and second formant frequency, and 6) a decrease in fundamental frequency. While it was possible to describe differences between the pre- and post-treatment data, it was not possible to ascribe these changes solely to intervention. It is difficult to know whether intervention had a direct effect on vowel production or whether the changes which occurred were more general effects of intervention or simply natural events, coincidental with the intervention program.<br>Medicine, Faculty of<br>Audiology and Speech Sciences, School of<br>Graduate
40
Kondo, Mariko. "Mechanisms of vowel devoicing in Japanese." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538345.
Full text
41
Howitt, Andrew Wilson. "Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86617.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-200).<br>by Andrew Wilson Howitt.<br>Sc.D.
42
Kolachina, Sudheer. "Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107081.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis: S.M. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 48).<br>This thesis presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust factual generalization that holds true of alternations in different types of nominal and verbal stems- vowels in unstressed syllables change to agree with a suffix vowel, with respect to either backness or height. Stress is the main conditioning environment for blocking of harmony. I show that secondary stress in Telugu can be inferred based on the pattern of vowel harmony. I account for this pattern of stressed vowels resisting harmony using positional faithfulness. Since stress-conditioned harmony is relatively uncommon in natural language, the account of vowel harmony in Telugu presented here helps to fill out the typology of stress-harmony interactions. I also report a production experiment which shows that secondary stress has a significant effect on syllable duration and is therefore, phonetically 'real' in this language.<br>by Sudheer Kolachina.<br>S.M. in Linguistics
43
Garea, Lauren L. "Cross-dialectal differences in vowel identifcation." Connect to resource, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37235.
Full text
44
Jiao, Lei. "A study of vowel normalization methodologies /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202009%20JIAO.
Full text
45
Miyashita, Mizuki. "Sequential Grounding and Consonant-Vowel Interaction." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311827.
Full text
46
Gerfen, Chip. "Izi Vowel Harmony and Selective Cyclicity." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227268.
Full textAbstract:
In this paper, I provide an analysis of vowel harmony in Izi, an Igbo language spoken in the East - Central State of Nigeria. Using data from Meier, Meier, and Samuel (1975; hereafter MMB), I argue that harmony in complex verbal structures in Izi is inadequately accounted for within a level ordered model of lexical phonology (Kiparsky 1982, Mohanan 1982, etc...), claiming instead that harmony facts are best accommodated within a non-level ordered approach (cf. Halle and Vergnaud 1987, Halle and Kenstowicz 1991; Halle, Harris, and Vergnaud 1991). In sections 1 and 2, I provide a description of the general pattern of the [ATR]-based vowel harmony system in Izi and motivate [+ATR] as the only value of the feature [ATR] present at the level of underlying representation. In section 3, data are presented demonstrating the inadequacy of a level -ordered treatment of vowel harmony in verbal structures. Finally, in section 4, I propose an alternative, non-level ordered analysis that derives the attested harmony facts via cyclic rule application at a single level. Crucially, particular morphemes in verbal structures are claimed to undergo a pass of the cyclic rules prior to concatenation, a phenomenon which I call selective cyclicity.
47
Barandalla, Ajona Ana Isabel. "Metaethical constructivism and treating others as ends." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7937.
Full textAbstract:
Metaethical constructivism approaches metaethical questions from the perspective of the nature of normativity; and it approaches questions about the nature of normativity from the perspective of agency. According to constructivism, normativity originates in the agent. The agent gives herself laws, and these laws are normative because the agent has given them to herself. Placing the agent as the source of normativity enables constructivism to answer metaphysical and epistemological questions about morality with ease. It also allows it to account for the relation between moral judgements and action. But placing the agent as the source of normativity raises two questions. First, if the laws that the agent issues to herself are normative because she issues them to herself, what are the standards of correctness of those laws? Second, if the agent is her own source of normativity, how can she accommodate the normative status of others? In this thesis I explore whether constructivism can answer those questions. In Chapter 1 I argue that the constructivist account of normativity is rich enough to answer the first question. From Chapter 2 onwards I argue that constructivism cannot answer the second question. I argue that its account of normativity requires that the agent does not accommodate the normative status of others.
48
Draskovic, Drasko. "Metacircuits for integrated transceiver RF front ends." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507735.
Full text
49
Chehrazi, Saeed. "Broadband front-ends for software-defined radios." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1692688421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full text
50
Song, Jung-Sook. "Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5841.
Full textAbstract:
In this study, I will try to show that vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean can be described as a (-ATR) spreading rule. The assumption that the harmonizing feature is (-ATR) is based on Hall and Hall (1980) in the case of Nez Perce, and on Hwang's formant analysis (1983) in the case of Korean. By using radical underspecification and a hierarchical theory of feature structure as the framework of analysis, vowel harmony will be described as a feature spreading rule: spread (-ATR), and the transparency of neutral vowels in the harmonizing process will be accounted for. On the other hand, I will show that in Korean there was a historical change in the type and nature of vowel harmony.