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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Vocalisation"”.
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Fish Vocalisation: Understanding its biological role from temporal and spatial characteristics
… Marine Reserve, the present study described the vocalisations of two dominant fish vocalisations, the croak and the purr. These sounds dominated the soundscape at frequencies below 500 Hz and regularly formed choruses that lasted up to 3 hours after sunset during the new moon, indicating the …
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The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
… Part of this work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters required to precisely record all the vowels in their languages. Semitic scribes thus developed systems of written vocalisation points to better record vowel sounds, first in Syriac, then soon …
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A Codicological and Linguistic Typology of Common Torah Codices from the Cairo Genizah
… codices have a non-standard form of Tiberian vocalisation (NST) the thesis also develops a typology of this vocalisation present in the corpus. These codices lack the full features associated with exemplary Bibles (having at least two columns of text, written on parchment, with Masoretic …
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Vocalisations Evidence from Germanic
A vocalisation may be described as a historical linguistic change where a sound which is formerly consonantal within a language becomes pronounced as a vowel. Although vocalisations have occurred sporadically in many languages they are particularly prevalent in the history of Germanic languages and …
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Avian brood parasitism as a model system for studying multispecies interactions
… the role and evolutionary origins of the whining vocalisation which is produced in response to observing a brood parasite by a group of distantly related host species found around the world. I find that the whining vocalisation plays an important role in communicating the threat of brood …
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Development of a mouse model for the study of osteoarthritis pain
… cold allodynia, mechanical allodynia and vocalisation in response to knee compression for 12 weeks post-surgery. No significant weight bearing deficits were observed during the course of the study. Significant mechanical allodynia was present in the ipsilateral hind limb from 9 weeks …
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Communication and sexual selection in the barking gecko (Ptenopus kochi)
… between call features of P. kochi's vocalisation, and how these features related to both intrinsic (morphological) and extrinsic (ambient) sources of variability were analytically explored. The principles of information theory and individual recognition by voice were used to gauge the …
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From gee to haw (and everything in between): Deconstructing the transspecies pidgin of mushing in northern Saskatchewan
… (verbal) words rooted in the English language, vocalisation, short phrases for reinforcement, the use of material devices, and training methodologies to shape a multisensory experience of interspecies collaboration. Dogs are considered nonhuman athletes in this hybrid community. They are bred, …
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Le traitement du bruit dans le système auditif avec applications en rehaussement de la parole
… les effets relatifs sur cette activité de la vocalisation par rapport au bruit. Nous utilisons ces métriques pour analyser l’activité neuronale d’une structure du système auditif, nomée le colliculus inférieur (IC), enregistrée lors de la présentation de vocalisations bruitées. Nous avons …
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Using autoethnographic methodology to explore the healing potential of non-ordinary experiences as it relates to developmental and intergenerational trauma
… environments which support body movement, vocalisation, emotional expression and storytelling within an empathic and compassionate communal setting. I suggest there would be value in conducting further research to test these conclusions. This research also concludes that assessment of …
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The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility
… in Shelley’s lyrics, are associated with the vocalisation of poetic inspiration. Chapter IV considers the relation of sight to Shelley’s notion of the fragmentary in two ekphrastic texts concerned with visual representation, ‘The Coliseum’ and ‘On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, In the …
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Locus-coeruleus norepinephrine system function in a developmental animal model of schizophrenia: the socially isolated rat
… symptoms of schizophrenia using ultrasonic vocalisation recording to investigate the calling behaviour of isolated rats in response to a novel context. The study included both male and female rats so that sex differences could be studied in the context of social isolation. Methodology: …
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Towards multimodal monitoring of large African carnivores
… because both species produce loud, recognisable vocalisations that propagate long distances. Yet, no such survey has occurred for leopards and passive acoustic monitoring for lions has only previously been conducted on a limited scale. In this thesis, from fieldwork I conducted in Nyerere …
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Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of cisticolas (Cisticola spp.)
… very little support for more recent groupings. Vocalisation analyses indicated that frequency components of songs were correlated with habitat type and body size. These correlations, though, disappeared when phylogeny was controlled for indicating that phylogenetic history rather than habitat …
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LNX1 and LNX2 in the central nervous system: linking behavioural, cellular and molecular perspectives
… deletion is involved in altered pup ultrasonic vocalisation following maternal separation and reduced body weight. To further examine the potential role of Lnx1p70/p62 in growth and early development, Chapter 3 revealed a disruption of pruning and maturation of hippocampal CA3-mossy fiber …
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The role of sound and sociability in the success of invasive lionfish (Pterois spp.)
… suggesting that the primary function of vocalisation in lionfish may be agonistic in nature. In Chapters 5 and 6, while I found no evidence for directional orientation in response to in-situ playbacks of different habitat types during daylight hours, lionfish altered their activity in …
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A morphological-syntactical analysis approach for Arabic textual tagging
… position of the word in the sentence. 1. Vocalisation (also referred as diacritisation or vowelisation). This thesis presents a rule-based Part-of-Speech tagging system called AMT - short for Arabic Morphosyntactic Tagger. The main function of the AMT system is to assign the correct tag to …
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Non-invasive Assessment of Swallowing and Phonation using High-density Electromyography
… For phonation events, this involved segmenting vocalisations, while for swallowing events, it involved segmenting the distinctive sound of the Eustachian tube opening. This approach improved temporal accuracy tenfold to approximately 0.025 s. The framework incorporated visualisation of temporal …
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Effects of urban noise on vocalisations of tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
The two most important functions of avian acoustic communication are territory defence and mate attraction. As such the effective communication of these signals is critical for individual reproductive success. However if these vocal signals are masked by anthropogenic noise, their signal efficiency …
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