bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Articulatory Underpinnings of Reduced Acoustic–Phonetic Contrasts in Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Authors: Moore Sophie , Rong Panying 
Published: August 2022

Purpose:
The aim of this study is to identify the articulatory underpinnings of the acoustic–phonetic correlates of functional speech decline in individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Method:
Thirteen individuals with varying severities of speech impairment secondary to ALS and 10 neurologically healthy controls speakers read 12 minimal word pairs, targeting the contrasts in the height, advancement, and length of vowels; the manner and place of articulation for consonants and consonant cluster; and liquid and glide approximants, 5 times. Sixteen acoustic features were extracted to characterize the phonetic contrasts of these minimal word pairs. These acoustic features were correlated with a functional speech index—intelligible speaking rate—using penalized regression, based on which the contributive features were identified as the acoustic–phonetic correlates of the functional speech outcome. Articulatory contrasts of the minimal word pairs were characterized by a set of dissimilarity indices derived by the dynamic time warping algorithm, which measured the differences in the displacement and velocity trajectories of tongue tip, tongue dorsum, lower lip, and jaw between the minimal word pairs. The contributive articulatory features to the acoustic–phonetic correlates were identified by penalized regression.

Results:
A variety of acoustic–phonetic features were identified as contributing to the functional speech outcome, of which the contrasts in vowel height and advancement, [r]–[l], [r]–[w], and initial cluster–singleton were the most affected in individuals with ALS. Differential articulatory underpinnings were identified for these acoustic–phonetic features. Impairments of these articulatory underpinnings, especially of tongue tip and tongue dorsum velocities and tongue tip displacement, were associated with reduced acoustic–phonetic contrasts of the minimal word pairs, in a context-specific manner.

Conclusion:
The findings established explanatory relationships between articulatory impairment and the acoustic–phonetic profile of functional speech decline in ALS, providing useful information for developing targeted management strategies to improve and prolong functional speech in individuals with ALS.
A multi‐objective parallel layered equalizer for large‐scale lithium ion battery system
Authors: Liu Hongrui , Li Hairui , Yang Xudong , Qian Jing 
Published: August 2022

AbstractThe equalizers available are difficult to give consideration to both high balance efficiency and fast balance speed, and their performances are unstable as the number of the series‐connected batteries increases, so they are unsuitable for a large‐scale battery system. A multi‐objective parallel layered equalizer based on battery working states for the large‐scale lithium‐ion battery system is presented. The equalizer has two types of balance objects and two corresponding layers, and the first layer and the second layer take the single battery and the battery unit as the balance object, respectively. The multi‐objective parallel layered balance means that multiple balance objects are selected as the balance objectives simultaneously at each layer. The balance speed is fast due to the multi‐objective parallel balance. The balance efficiency is high due to the short energy path and the complementary pulse width modulation (PWM) control in the first layer, and the double voltage value of the balance object in the second layer. Moreover, the performance of the equalizer is stable, even when the number of series‐connected batteries is large. In short, the proposed equalizer features high efficiency, fast speed, and strong scalability. Further, the experimental platform for a battery system with twelve series‐connected lithium‐ion phosphate batteries is built, and then the balance experiments have been completed. Finally, the effectiveness of the equalizer is verified by the corresponding experimental results.
Corner‐based object detection method for reactivating box constraints
Authors: Zhao Guoqing , Dong Tianyang , Jiang Yiming 
Published: August 2022

AbstractCorner‐based detectors usually generate a large number of false detection boxes because of insufficient attention to the detection area. Recent corner‐based detectors can achieve good performance, but the training equipment requirements have greatly increased. For example, due to the dense network structure and the large input image size, CenterNet requires expensive equipment for network training (e.g. Tesla V100). Its performance will be greatly reduced when a more mainstream and cheaper device is used for fine‐tuning. The high equipment requirements make it difficult for most researchers to follow up these studies. In this work, CenternessNet, a detector that adds additional box‐edge length constraints to CenterNet is proposed, thereby allowing the network to be trained on more general devices and obtain a better performance. It simply introduces the box as a constraint into the corner‐based network. In this way, the method improves the ability to aggregate corners during training and enhances the model's ability to discriminate the corners of objects in the same category to some extent. The method achieves a better performance than other corner‐based detection networks trained on similar low‐memory devices.
Terrain effect analysis and compensation method for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry height parameter inversion
Authors: Zhiyong Suo , Tingting Wang , Chao Xue , Tao Zhang 
Published: August 2022

AbstractIn this paper, the terrain effect on parameter inversion performance of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) and polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR) are analysed first. Based on the analysis of the terrain effect on single pixel processing, the terrain effect between adjacent pixels is addressed for both PolSAR and PolInSAR image pairs. Through the analysis, the terrain effect should be considered not only for the single pixel data calibration but also for the adjacent pixels of PolSAR and PolInSAR parameter inversion processing. Therefore, combining with the geometric model correction of sloped‐random volume over ground, the terrain‐compensated procedure is proposed for PolInSAR parameter inversion. The parameter inversion performance is improved effectively with terrain effect consideration. The effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated by the PolSARPro simulated dataset and the real Phased Array L‐Band Synthetic aperture Radar (PALSAR) dataset.
Development of a confocal line-scan laser scattering probe for dark-field surface defects detection of transmissive optics
Authors: Dong Jingtao , Chang Kai , Tian Zhipeng , Zhang Tengda , Lang Xianli , Zhang Yuzhong , Lu Rongsheng , Xie Xinglong 
Published: August 2022

Dark-field detection has long been used to identify micron/submicron-sized surface defects benefiting from the broadening effect of the actual defect size caused by light scattering. However, the back-side scattering of a transmissive optical slab is inevitably confused with the front-side scattering phenomenon, resulting in deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the scattering signal and false alarms for real defect detection. To this end, a confocal line-scan laser scattering probe equipped with optical sectioning ability is proposed to separate the back-side scattering from the front-side scattering. The optical sectioning ability is realized through a confocal light scattering collector, which overcomes the restriction imposed on the numerical aperture (NA) and the field of view (FOV), reaching an FOV length of 90 mm and NA of 0.69. The line-scan principle of the probe protects itself from crosstalk because it produces only a laser spot on the tested surface in an instant. Experimental results verified that the probe has a line-scan length of 90 mm with a uniformity better than 98%, an rms electronic noise of 3.4 mV, and an rms background noise of 6.4 mV with laser on. The probe can reject the false back-side scattering light for a 2 mm thick fused silica slab at 17.1 dB SNR and operate at a high imaging efficiency of 720 mm2/s with a minimum detectability limit of 1.4 µm at 12 dB SNR. This work put forward an effective method with great application value for submicron-sized defect detection in transmissive optics.
A miniatured helical antenna based on the sinusoidal folding structure with exponential spacing
Authors: Qiu Yang-xin , Xie Yan-zhao , Wang Shao-fei , Li Qi , Gu Yu-hao , Zhang Pu-qing 
Published: August 2022

An exponential spacing and sinusoidal folded helical (ESSFH) antenna backed with a cavity is developed in this paper. Compared with the conventional helical (CH) antenna, the proposed antenna not only has smaller dimension but also exhibits a wider working bandwidth, a higher gain, and a better circular polarization (CP) characteristic. To reduce the dimension of the helical antenna, a sinusoidal structure is adopted along the circumference of the helix. However, it deteriorates the CP characteristic of the antenna. Therefore, the structure of the exponential helix spacing is introduced into the sinusoidal folded helical (SFH) antenna. Then, to further improve the gain of the ESSFH antenna, its ground plane is replaced by an optimized cavity. Compared with the CH antenna, the helix diameter of the ESSFH antenna Dλ is reduced from 0.32 to 0.23, and its volume is reduced to 53%. The ESSFH antenna backed with a cavity has an impedance bandwidth of 0.43–1.02 GHz, which is much wider than 0.48–0.60 GHz of the CH antenna. Moreover, it has an axial ratio of 1.77, while the axial ratio of the CH antenna is 2.61. In addition, its effective potential gain is 0.56, which is 22% higher than that of the CH antenna.
Poetic and visual metaphors in Hungarian folklore*
Authors: Szelid Veronika 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In this chapter I have a twofold aim: (1) to reveal the complexity of the concept of love in Hungarian folklore by analyzing a number of its linguistic (oral-verbal) and visual representations side by side; and (2) to decipher these two modes of expression in light of each other, with the help of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The reason for doing so is that folkloric artefacts and folk poetry are two different self-expressional modes of a community; therefore, if their symbolism represents certain aspects of the same concept, it enables us to get a more complex view on the concept itself, as well as to explore and compare the different modes the messages are conveyed by.
Texts of folk songs and the patterns, structure and functions of the hope chest, an artefact that played an essential role in a woman’s life in Hungarian folklore, are analyzed in line with each other. I propose that the model of love revealed by folk poetry and folk art is thoroughly intertwined with the concepts of morality, marriage and life, reflecting an optimistic view of the world that extends the bounderies of this earthly life. Furthermore, I argue that both the linguistic and visual representations under scrutiny are manifestations of a coordinating view of the world, which is present in the form of both coordinated source and coordinated target representations. The conceptual disparity between the two modes lies mainly in the static nature of folk art and the dynamicity of language, but the creativity of the studied community seems to surmount this issue by imparting ornaments with a functional value.
Image metaphors of Trianon*
Authors: Putz Orsolya 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
This chapter studies the visual representation of the Treaty of Trianon by identifying the most common image metaphors related to it.1 Three hypotheses are articulated. (1) Visual metaphors about Trianon are based on the same underlying conceptual metaphors as the corresponding metaphorical linguistic expressions. However, it is proposed that figures tend to be construed of mixed metaphors in order to convey a more condensed and complex message. In case of mixed metaphors, more source domains are applied to conceptualize the same target domain. (2) There exists a cultural cognition (Sharifian 2011) about Trianon, which is shared by the contemporary Hungarian community and which is represented in different modes of communication, namely in language and in images. The members of the community are able to understand and (re-)produce the linguistic and image metaphors about Trianon, because their conceptual system about Trianon is structured by similar conceptual metaphors. (3) Furthermore, based on linguistic data Putz (2019), it is assumed that the figures represent the perspective of the post-1920 Hungarian nation exclusively.2

The data is based on a Google search conducted on January 15, 2019, which referenced figures of Trianon with a .hu internet domain. Among the hundreds of thousands of search results, the first 150 figures were selected and ordered into six categories. Among this set of figures, the analysis focused on illustrations based on maps of pre- and post-1920 Hungary. The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of eight figures, based on a three-step procedure, which is motivated by Steen et al.’s (2017) protocol.
Multimodal conceptual patterns of Hungary in political cartoons*
Authors: Virág Ágnes 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Conventionalized positive images of Hungary have been overemphasized in political caricatures ever since the nineteenth century (Tamás 2012, 2014). The present chapter explores the multimodal representations of hungary in cartoons in the period between 1989 and 1990, during which negative images of Hungary became prominent due to the weak financial situation of the country and the political system change. The corpus involves seventyfive cartoons from the satirical magazine Ludas Matyi. Two major claims are justified by adopting Paula Pérez-Sobrino’s (2017) multimodal identification procedure: (1) the interpretation of verbal elements (e.g., labels, verbal texts, and verbal symbols) in political cartoons influences the identification of multimodal conceptual patterns; (2) the dominant patterns that structure the representation of hungary in political cartoons are metonymy-based visual and multimodal metaphors, and both of them occur in metaphorical scenarios. The corpus analysis indicates that the two main target frames, financial crisis and political changes, appear through the sources of human body and object in metaphorical scenarios, such as ordinary scenes, motion, hospital, sport, tale, love, feast, stunt, begging, and church scenes. Apart from identifying the representations of Hungary, visual metonymies as well as textual cues need to be revealed in order to understand what metaphtonymy scenarios are intended in the cartoons.
Communication, comprehension, and interpretation
Authors: Wilson Deirdre 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Ray Gibbs has argued that three features of figurative utterance interpretation make it hard to
envisage a unitary pragmatic theory, with a set of dedicated principles or mechanisms linked to “some specialized
‘pragmatics’ part of the mind”. First, a given figurative utterance may be interpreted radically differently in
different contexts; second, pragmatic performance varies not only across, but within, individuals; third, figurative
interpretation involves a mixture of conceptual, perceptual and sensorimotor information which cannot be adequately
rendered in terms of a finite literal paraphrase. In this paper, I consider how relevance theory, an approach to
pragmatics which incorporates such a set of dedicated pragmatic principles or mechanisms, might deal with the
context-dependence, variability and indeterminacy of figurative interpretation in particular, and utterance
interpretation in general.
Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse
Authors: Dancygier Barbara 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The proposal to consider the use of metaphor from the perspective of discourse dynamicity is
becoming increasingly popular. In this chapter, I give the idea further support, but I also suggest two additions: a
closer look at how dynamicity works in various discourse types and a clearer focus on how dynamicity is achieved
through the use of various figurative forms. Besides, I argue for a more structured understanding of the link between
discourse, figuration and experiential viewpoint. I consider a range of examples, from various discourses, including
literary texts, to substantiate the types of research questions facing the idea of dynamicity.
Figurativity
Authors: Colston Herbert L. , Rasse Carina 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
We’ve long recognized that figurative language is social in multiple ways. But new developments in
both socio-cognitive neuroscience and linguistic pragmatics suggests that the extent to which all language, figurative
and everything else, might be considered social has been underestimated. This chapter first reviews the three main
neurally-driven and evolutionarily-constructed powerful social drives in people, motivating us to form social
connections, to maintain or improve our status in social networks and hierarchies, and to form a sense-of-self derived
from social expectations. The chapter then covers the 9 or 10 different ways in which figurative language,
non-figurative language, indirect language and a handful of other processes on the “other-side-of-meaning” (Colston, 2019), exist fundamentally to service those powerful social
motivations, several of which are not usually considered in discussions of the sociality of figurative and other
language.1
So let’s say men can’t understand that much
Authors: Pawelczyk Joanna , Faccio Elena 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In this paper we look at three extracts of two psychotherapy sessions between a female therapist and a woman
patient suffering from bulimia and depression. We use conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to examine
how gender, indexing the quality of the emotional bond between participants, is interactionally managed in view of the
session’s goals.
The findings show the patient relying on gender as category-sharing to account for her actions and seek
understanding. The therapist, however, tends to resist the category-sharing and engages the patient in extensive work around
gender categories. Women psychotherapists should be particularly attuned to women patients’ invoking of category-sharing and
critically consider its relevance and application in the situated context of therapy work.
Practices of relationship building in Hungarian primary care
Authors: Kuna Agnes , Scarvaglieri Claudio 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Using data from Hungarian primary-care consultations, we present linguistic features of relationship-building,
focusing on the role of address forms and metapragmatic reflections. We also investigate intergenerational differences and
different styles of managing doctor-patient relationships. Based on a range of evidence (discourse about doctor-patient
communication in the public and in academia, participant observation of consultations, interviews with practitioners, analysis
of instructional videos, questionnaire surveys), we discuss a change in doctor-patient communication at both macro
(socio-cultural) and micro (interactional) levels. Factors influencing this process include general social change,
digitisation and the communicative training of healthcare professionals. We conclude that physicians build different types of
relationships with language, which hints at an overall shift in Hungarian society and in healthcare communication in
general.
How are you getting on with these?
Authors: Thurnherr Franziska 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
This contribution explores how a counselor uses requests to encourage clients to actively participate in email
counseling. Applying positioning theory and relational work from interpersonal pragmatics, I answer the following research
questions: How does the counselor use requests to position clients as active participants? How do affordances of the medium
influence the counselor’s efforts in such requests? I analyze five naturally occurring email counseling exchanges through
content and discourse analysis, adding insight from a practitioner interview. The examined requests aim to improve joint
understanding, foster reflection, elicit solutions, and elicit feedback on coping techniques. Results show that the counselor
uses intricate relational work that constructs clients as active participants. The counselor employs medium affordances such
as asynchronicity or emoticons.
A new magneto-acousto-electrical detection method for defects in high conductivity non-ferromagnetic materials
Authors: Yan Xiaoheng , Xu Chuwen , Lv Jingxiang , Yang Yanju 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In order to further enrich the non-destructive detection methods for defects in high conductivity non-ferromagnetic materials, a new method of magneto-acousto-electrical (MAE) defect detection is proposed. First, a mathematical model of MAE multi-physical field coupling with coil induction was established. Subsequently, a geometric model of the object to be tested was constructed, and the simulation software COMSOL was used to solve the physical process of MAE defect detection. Two-dimensional distributions of mass point vibration velocity, current density of the coil’s cross-section, and one-dimensional curves of material vibration velocity surface integral, local current, and induced voltage as a function of time were obtained for various defect widths, defect shapes, and materials. The simulation result shows that the induction coil voltage pulse contains abundant information about the defect boundary information and the detection accuracy reaches 0.1 mm. Finally, experiments on MAE defect detection were conducted to prove the feasibility of the method. The research demonstrates a reliable method for the detection of internal defects in non-ferromagnetic materials with high electrical conductivity, such as aerospace and railways.
DC and low-frequency noise characteristics of GaN-based HEMTs under cryogenic temperatures
Authors: Zeng Bolun , Zhang Haochen , Luo Chao , Xiang Zikun , Zhang Yuanke , Wen Mingjie , Xue Qiwen , Hu Sirui , Sun Yue , Yang Lei , Sun Haiding , Guo Guoping 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In this work, the device characteristics of GaN-based high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) were systematically investigated by the direct current (DC) and low-frequency noise (LFN) measurements within the temperature ranging from 300 K to 4.2 K. The temperature-dependent behavior of the on- and off-state electrical properties was statistically analyzed, highlighting an overall improved device performance under cryogenic temperatures. In addition, the LFN of the device exhibited an evident behavior of 1/f noise from 10 Hz to 10 kHz in the measured temperature range and can be well described by the carrier number fluctuations with correlated mobility fluctuations (CNF/CMF) model down to 4.2 K. Based on this model, we further extracted and discussed the defect-related behavior in the devices under low-temperature environments. These experimental results provide insights into the device characteristics of GaN-based HEMTs under cryogenic environments, motivating further studies into the GaN-based cryo-devices and systems.