ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF VIOLIN INTERPRETATION by Cătălina GUŢANU

“…During the performance of a musical piece, any musician – regardless of whether he/she is a pianist, violinist or vocal singer, uses a full and profound sound that beautifies the interpretation and gives it more musicality, more feeling, warmth and spirituality. …”
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The Audiovisual Archive in an Era of Disinformation and Misinformation by Jacqueline Pietsch, in collaboration with the MediaNumeric Team

“…In convivial conversation they speak from their experience at the French National Audiovisual Institute INA, The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, the EBU Academy, the Spanish RTVE archive and WITNESS, a human rights non-profit organisation based the United States that supports activists in archiving and preserving their video. …”
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Categorical Abstract Algebraic Logic: Meet-Combination of Logical Systems by George Voutsadakis

“…In their investigations they provide a sound and concretely complete calculus for the meet-combination based on available sound and complete calculi for the component systems. …”
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Accommodation in learner corpora: A case study in phonetic convergence by Léa Burin, Nicolas Ballier

“…Phonetic convergence is the process by which a speaker adapts his speech to sound more similar to his/her interlocutor. While most studies analyzing this process have been conducted amongst speakers sharing the same language or variety, this preliminary experiment focuses on native/non-native interactions. …”
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Bringing Home the Bacon: Infusing Evaluation Best Practices into Grant Proposals by Glenn Israel, Jaclyn D Kropp, David C Diehl, Conner Mullally, Sebastian Galindo

“… Proposals possessing sound and well-funded evaluation plans are normally stronger and have greater chances of being funded. …”
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Bringing Home the Bacon: Infusing Evaluation Best Practices into Grant Proposals by Glenn Israel, Jaclyn D Kropp, David C Diehl, Conner Mullally, Sebastian Galindo

“… Proposals possessing sound and well-funded evaluation plans are normally stronger and have greater chances of being funded. …”
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PENINGKATAN PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN IPA MATERI BUNYI DENGAN MENERAPKAN METODE KOOPERATIF MODEL JIGSAW DI KELAS VIII A SMP NEGERI 2 by Dwi Retno Wahyuni

“…This study aimed to increase student achievement in science learning material by applying sound Jigsaw model of cooperative methods in class VIIIA of SMP Negeri 2 Kwadungan school year 2013/2014 . …”
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The phonesthetics of blends: A lexicographic study of cognitive blends in the OED by Smith Chris

“…A study of OED word origins shows a disparity between older (1200-1900) and recent blends (1903-2012). Sound symbolism plays an overriding role in over 50% of older blends, leading to a study of initial phonesthemes (i.e. consonant clusters). …”
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“It will discourse most eloquent music”: Sonifying Variants of Hamlet by Iain Emsley, David De Roure

“…Sonification is a complementary technique to visualization that uses sound to describe relationships in data. We describe work to aid exploratory textual analysis by sonifying textual variants. …”
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Correlation between Acoustic Feature and Sensory Crispness of Different Puffed Food Based on Energy Release Analysis by Chengkai ZHU, Xinnan HU, Zhili JI, Wangyang SHEN, Xiwu JIA

“…Adopting 1000 Hz as the interval for energy segmentation, the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) was utilized to segment the energy of the sound signal from puffed food to observe the process of energy migration. …”
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Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes by Xiu Lu, Guannan Li, Xiaoqing Song, Liangchen Zhou, Guonian Lv

“…They cannot study the relationship between the elements related to the sound source or explore the interaction mechanism between the sound and geographical environments. …”
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Determining the Effect of Calculus, Hypocalcification, and Stain on Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Polarized Raman Spectroscopy for Detecting White Spot Lesions by Amanda Huminicki, Cecilia Dong, Blaine Cleghorn, Michael Sowa, Mark Hewko, Lin-P'ing Choo-Smith

“…Results indicate that OCT allowed differentiating caries from sound enamel, hypocalcification, and stain, with calculus deposits recognizable on OCT images. …”
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Unprecedented mechanical wave energy absorption observed in multifunctional bioinspired architected metamaterials by Zhendong Li, Xinxin Wang, Kexin Zeng, Zichao Guo, Chong Li, Xiang Yu, Seeram Ramakrishna, Zhonggang Wang, Yang Lu

“…Abstract In practical engineering, noise and impact hazards are pervasive, indicating the pressing demand for materials that can absorb both sound and stress wave energy simultaneously. However, the rational design of such multifunctional materials remains a challenge. …”
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The Application of Speech Synthesis Technology Based on Deep Neural Network in Intelligent Broadcasting by Jihong Yang

“…To improve the sound quality of speech synthesis technology in intelligent broadcasting, a deep neural network-based method is proposed. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“… This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). …”
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Influence of Gear Helix Angle on Noise of Door Controlled Reducer by Aiqun Xu, Sheng Rao

“…Taking the first stage motor shaft and helical gears of the door controlled reducer as the analysis object， the model is established and simplified by three-dimensional software， and the sound pressure level of 19°~23° helical angle gear meshing is simulated using the acoustic module in Comsol Multiphysics software； the meshing sound pressure levels of 19°~23° helical angle gears under no-load and loaded conditions are measured with UT353 decibel instrument from close to and 1 m away. …”
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Musical Instruments of the Turkic Peoples of the Volga Region and Urals by Gulnara Khayrullina

“…They reflect the characteristics, temperament and mentality of the people, the conditions for their formation as an ethnos. Variety, rich sound, unusual melody pattern – national musical instruments create all this. …”
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MEL-IRIS: An Online Tool for Audio Analysis and Music Indexing by Dimitrios Margounakis, Dionysios Politis, Konstantinos Mokos

“…Chroma is an important attribute of music and sound, although it has not yet been adequately defined in literature. …”
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Simulation Analysis of the Influence Law of Belt Width on the Noise of Automotive Synchronous Belt by Li Zhanguo, Li Shuiqing, Shi Yaochen

“…A finite element analysis model of the ZA automotive synchronous belt drive system is established,the natural frequency characteristic of the automobile synchronous belt transverse vibration and its harmonic response under the action of meshing impact excitation are analyzed,and taking the surface vibration displacement of the synchronous belt obtained by harmonic response analysis as boundary condition,the acoustic boundary element analysis model of the automobile synchronous belt is established by the direct boundary element method that its sound field is closed,the radiated noise of automotive synchronous belt is simulated and analyzed,the sound pressure cloud picture and the frequency response curve of radiation pressure of two synchronous belt with different bandwidth are obtained,and the influence law of the belt width on the vibration and noise of the synchronous belt is studied.…”
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The influence of segmental errors and stress-placement errors on Polish listeners’ perceived degree of foreignaccentedness in non-native speech by Anna Borkowska

“…Segmental errors produced by speakers of Spanish were rated as the most foreign-sounding, followed by Czech and Russian. One possible explanation is that it was caused by the sound systems of Russian, Czech, and Polish being pretty similar, while the Spanish sound system is somewhat different.…”
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