Diacetyl in Slovak beers.

Clifford Beers

A great reformer has passed on. Clifford Whittingham Beers died on July 9th, 1943, at Providence, U.S.A., but his fine enthusiastic and farseeing spirit has left behind it work which persists and grows. At a time when such ideas as his were regarded as almost too progressive, and, in some quarters indeed, as subversive and revolutionary, he, a recovered patient, demonstrated the value of indivi...

Sinking Bubbles in Stout Beers

9 A surprising phenomenon witnessed by many is the sinking bubbles seen in a settling pint of 10 stout beer. Bubbles are less dense than the surrounding fluid so how does this happen? Previous 11 work has shown that the explanation lies in a circulation of fluid promoted by the tilted sides of the 12 glass. However, this work has relied heavily on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations....

2012 Beers Criteria.

Word length in Slovak poetry

In the present article the place of word-length in Slovak poetry in the framework of the general theory is sought. Different models are presented. The possibility of applying Menzerath’s law in this domain is scrutinized.

Rhythm and tempo in Slovak

We present the first quantitative analysis of rhythm in Slovak, using two speech corpora designed to exhibit rich prosodic variability including extreme variation in speaking rate and articulatory precision. Several standard consonant and vocalic interval measures show a close similarity of Slovak rhythmic structure with languages traditionally considered syllabletimed, but suggest counter-intu...