Order in institutional telephone talk: three observations

[Abstract]: In this paper I introduce some features of conversation analysis through three actions. I do this, firstly, by displaying three observations of a telephone call to a local government council. Secondly, by invoking participants’ capacities, skills and resources as social interactants to analyse this call. And thirdly, by commenting on how traditional approaches to psychology might explain the orderliness of the call. I then conclude the paper with some modest claims about how the communication choices made by professionals shape the quality of service interactions, and about the potential for conversation analysis to contribute to psychological research at USQ

Methods of power line interference elimination in EMG signals

Electromyogram (EMG) recordings are often corrupted by the wide range of artifacts, which one of them is power line interference (PLI). The study focuses on some of the well-known signal processing approaches used to eliminate or attenuate PLI from EMG signal. The results are compared using signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman analysis for each tested method: notch filter, adaptive noise canceller (ANC) and wavelet transform (WT). Thus, the power of the remaining noise and shape of the output signal are analysed. The results show that the ANC method gives the best output SNR and lowest shape distortion compared to the other methods.Web of Science40706

Random skew plane partitions with a piecewise periodic back wall

Random skew plane partitions of large size distributed according to an appropriately scaled Schur process develop limit shapes. In the present work we consider the limit of large random skew plane partitions where the inner boundary approaches a piecewise linear curve with non-lattice slopes, describing the limit shape and the local fluctuations in various regions. This analysis is fairly similar to that in [OR2], but we do find some new behavior. For instance, the boundary of the limit shape is now a single smooth (not algebraic) curve, whereas the boundary in [OR2] is singular. We also observe the bead process introduced in [B] appearing in the asymptotics at the top of the limit shape.Comment: 24 pages. This version to appear in Annales Henri Poincar

The philosophical Background Of Karang Hasti Ornament Found On The Foundation Of Balinese Hindu Sacred Buildings

Karang hasti or karang gajah is one of ornaments on Balinese Hindu shrine’s foundation. This ornament adopts the basic form of elephant head which is clearly represented with the shapes of trunk, ivory, and wide ears. In Bali, this ornament is made of natural stones, artificial stones, red bricks, mixed sand, and printed concrete. This article is aimetd to (a) identify the variants of karang hasti ornaments and (b) find out the philosophical background of karang hasti ornament on the foundation of shrines. The analysis method is hermeneutic with some approaches on morphological point of view, the characteristic of the real animal in nature, cosmology, mythology, and comparison with other shrines outside Bali. The essential finding obtained that karang hasti is a kind ornament with the shape of elephant head having a strong relation with the concept of asta dig-gaj

Shape Sensing for an UAV Composite Half-Wing: Numerical Comparison between Modal Method and Ko’s Displacement Theory

Shape sensing is the reconstruction of the displacement field of a structure from some discrete surface strain measurements and is a key technology for structural health monitoring. Aim of this paper is to compare two approaches to shape sensing that have been shown to be more efficient, especially for aircraft structures applications, in terms of required input strain measurements, the Ko’s Displacement Theory and the Modal Method. Object of the shape-sensing analysis is the half-wing of a multirotor UAV. The approaches are summarized in order to set the framework for the numerical comparative in-vestigation. Then, the multirotor UAV is presented and a finite element model of its half-wing is used to simulate the static response to straight-and-level flight conditions. For a given common set of surface strain measurement points, Ko’s Displacement Theory and the Modal Method are compared in terms of accuracy of the reconstructed half-wing deflection and twist angle. The Modal Method is shown to be more accurate than Ko’s Displacement Theory, especially for the evaluation of the deflection field. Further numerical analyses show that the Modal Method is in-fluenced by the set of mode shapes included in the analysis and that excellent reconstructed de-flections can be obtained with a reduced number of sensors, thus assessing the approach as an ef-ficient shape-sensing tool for aircraft structures real applications