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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Constant Duration"”.
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Time in the Landscape: Designing for Perpetuity
… This thesis explores the concept of material duration and its application to landscape design. Duration is a complex measure of time. This thesis adapts a definition of duration developed in the field of finance to explore time in the design of an urban cemetery. The design embodies the …
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"""White Noise"" Non-Linear Analysis of Inferior Colliculus Neural Responses in the Little Brown Bat, Myotis Lucifugus"
… lucifugus. The consistently short (1-5 ms) duration of echolocation calls emitted by the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, permitted approximating the sounds heard during hunting with a train of short, constant-duration pulses. In contrast to standard approaches (in which acoustic …
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A weighted-constraint model of F0 movements/
… occur at a fixed interval from other tones (the Constant Duration Hypothesis). In this dissertation, the two hypotheses are tested in languages with various tonal phonologies: Seoul Korean (phrasal boundary tone), Tokyo Japanese (lexical pitch accent), Mandarin (lexical tone), and English …
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Optimal asset allocation and annuitisation in a defined contribution pension scheme
… We observe a pensioner aged 65, having constant income from social security, having certain amount of pension wealth at age 65. The pensioner optimally decides each year how much of his available assets to consume, to invest into tradable assets, and how much to convert to annuities. …