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A Synovium‐on‐Chip Platform to Study Multicellular Interactions in Arthritis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The Synovium‐on‐Chip comprises a thin microporous PDMS membrane to support co‐culture of fibroblast‐like synoviocytes (FLS), THP‐1‐derived macrophages, and endothelial cells, enabling real‐time analysis of synovial‐vascular interactions. FLS migration through the pores drives endothelial remodeling, while TNF‐α stimulation induces robust inflammatory ...
Laurens R. Spoelstra, Fleur R. Semmekrot, Nuno Araújo‐Gomes, Daniël Wijnperle, Monique M. A. Helsen, Martijn H.J. Van Den Bosch, Loes. I. Segerink, Séverine Le Gac, Marcel Karperien   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real‐Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging with an Ultra‐Sparse, Low Power Architecture

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This article presents a novel, ultra‐sparse ultrasound architecture that paves the way for wearable real‐time 3D imaging. By integrating a unique convolutional array with chirped data acquisition, the system achieves high‐resolution volumetric scans at a fraction of the power and hardware complexity.
Colin Marcus, Md Osman Goni Nayeem, Aastha Shah, Jason Hou, Shrihari Viswanath, Maya Eusebio, David Sadat, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Tolga Ozmen, Canan Dagdeviren   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Hierarchical Prosodic Prominence Generation in TTS Synthesis [PDF]

, 2012
We address the problem of identification (from text) and generation of pitch accents in HMM-based English TTS synthesis. We show, through a large scale perceptual test, that a large improvement of the binary discrimination between pitch accented and non ...
Badino, Leonardo, Clark, Robert A.J., Wester, Mirjam   +2 more
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Spanish evidence for pitch-accent structure

Linguistics, 2002
This paper considers the ability of the standard view of the pitch accent and two alternative views to account for the tonal-alignment data of two bitonal rising pitch accents in Spanish (one of which is used in cases of broad focus and the other in cases of contrastive focus).
openaire   +1 more source

Archeo‐Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
Eva von Contzen, Julia von Ditfurth, Fabian Stroth, Bastian E. Rapp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for 'soft' preplanning in tonal production: Initial scaling in Romance [PDF]

, 2006
International audienceIn this study, the scaling of utterance-initial f0 values and H initial peaks are examined in several Romance languages as a function of phrasal length, measured in number of pitch accents (1 to 3 pitch accents) and in number of ...
D'Imperio, Mariapaola, Elordieta, Gorka, Frota, Sónia, Prieto, Pilar, Vigário, Marina   +4 more
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Hydrogel Thermostat Inspired by Photoprotective Foliage Using Latent and Radiative Heat Control

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Guided by Populus alba foliage, this hydrogel latent‐radiative thermostat (LRT) actively balances latent and radiative heat fluxes. An LRT switches solar reflectance, maintains high mid‐IR emissivity, and reversibly evaporates/regenerates water, while titanium oxide (TiO2) nanoparticles toughen the film.
Se‐Yeon Heo, Hyung Rae Kim, Yoonsoo Shin, Hyun Su Lee, Hyunkyu Kwak, Do Hyeon Kim, Dong Hyun Seo, Joo Hwan Ko, Hyo Eun Jeong, Sehui Chang, Min Seok Kim, Longnan Li, Jyotirmoy Mandal, Wei Li, Dae‐Hyeong Kim, Young Min Song   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

VARIATION IN PHONETIC REALISATION OR IN PHONOLOGICAL CATEGORIES? INTONATIONAL PITCH ACCENTS IN EGYPTIAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC AND EGYPTIAN FORMAL ARABIC [PDF]

This paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to compare the intonation of formal and colloquial varieties of Egyptian Arabic in a corpus of elicited read speech, to explore the widely held assumption that spoken formal Arabic will have the ...
Dina El Zarka, Sam Hellmuth, Universität Graz, Universität Potsdam   +3 more
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Role of the Recombination Zone in Organic Light‐Emitting Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the critical role of the recombination zone in organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). We highlight that broadening the recombination zone in OLEDs based on emissive layers with balanced charge transport and high photoluminescence quantum yields provides a promising route toward achieving both long operational lifetime and high ...
Yungui Li, Karl Leo
wiley   +1 more source

Including Pitch Accent Optionality in Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis [PDF]

, 2008
A significant variability in pitch accent placement is found when comparing the patterns of prosodic prominence realized by different English speakers reading the same sentences. In this paper we describe a simple approach to incorporate this variability
Badino, Leonardo, Clark, Robert A.J., Strom, Volker   +2 more
core   +1 more source