Arnold J. Bauer’s Reply*

[Arnold...!].

ir conditioning as we know it, providing thermal comfort by mechanical methods, first appeared in buildings about a hundred years ago. The ability to control temperature, humidity and air purity made urban development possible in the most inhospitable of locations. Together with electric lighting, air conditioning also eliminated restrictions on plan form and fenestration that architects had be...

The Authors’ Reply

Reversibility and death: a reply to David J. Cole.

In this reply to David J. Cole it is argued that the medical concept of death as an irreversible phenomenon is correct and that it does not conflict with ordinary concepts of death.

A reply to ‘ ‘ Innate phonetic boundaries revisited ’ ’ [ J . Acoust .

Before launching into a response to the letter by Aslin, Werker, and Morgan ~2002!, I would like to make clear my belief that the work on infant speech perception has been well executed, and has been critical to the development of general theoretical perspectives on speech perception. I respect and appreciate the contributions of these authors, and consider my own work with children to be a nat...

Reply to letter from J. Finsterer and S. Zarrouk-Mahjoub

We thank Dr. Finsterer and Dr. Zarrouk-Mahjoub for their comments, in which they argue for further neurological workup of the present case [1]. We agree that neurological assessment is an integral part of the multidisciplinary approach to patients presenting with syncope. However, the authors neglect the fact that our patient was only referred after neurological investigations, which yielded no...