Lots of new this year

As another new year of this century approaches

LOTs of THOUGHTs on the Endangered PALMs of New York

Prior determination of the vowels instantiated by tokens is needed to be able to reliably to plot those vowels. Consequently, investigation of variation and change involving the New York City English (NYCE) low-back vowel system encounters an obstacle in the difficulty in assigning some words to the LOT versus PALM classes given reports of interspeaker variation between them (see e.g., Labov, A...

Lots of Headroom

a sense of how deeply computing practices have permeated experimental optics R&D. I found scant mention of computation in these reports; I can’t recall whether my first reaction to this revelation was surprise or disappointment. Instead, I tried to determine why only two of these scores of reports indicated that computation had played a sufficiently important role in their discoveries that they...

This Year in the MOVES Institute

The MOVES Institute’s mission is research, application, and education in the grand challenges of modeling, virtual environments, and simulation. Specialties are 3D visual simulation, networked virtual environments, computergenerated autonomy, human-performance engineering, immersive technologies, defense /entertainment collaboration, and evolving operational modeling.

Lots of autoantibodies equal lupus?

Autoantibodies may be found years before an autoimmune disease becomes clinically apparent. For systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), those to RNA-binding proteins, to phospholipids, and to double-stranded DNA, in particular, have been found in sera of SLE patients years before the diagnosis was made. New data now show in an unbiased way that, in patients with early SLE, no single antibody class ...