New York Film Festival 57 — Scorsese, Baumbach, Norton: A Tryptic

The Art and Politics of Science Harold Varmus New York/London: WW. Norton & Company

Autobiographic throughout, The Art and Politics of Science is not an autobiography, and does not claim to be one. Neither is it a theoretical reflection on the relationship of science and politics. It is explicitly subjective, an always-personal account of what it means to do science. It tells us something about the nature of laboratory science, and of how politics is involved in the doing of s...

Illnesses and Deaths Among Persons Attending an Electronic Dance-Music Festival — New York City, 2013

Outdoor electronic dance-music festivals (EDMFs) are typically summer events where attendees can dance for hours in hot temperatures. EDMFs have received increased media attention because of their growing popularity and reports of illness among attendees associated with recreational drug use. MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is one of the drugs often used at EDMFs. MDMA causes euphoria ...

SMS-FESTIVAL: a new TTS framework

A new sinusoidal model based engine for FESTIVAL TTS system which performs the DSP (Digital Signal Processing) operations (i.e. converting a phonetic input into audio signal) of a diphone-based TTS concatenative system, taking as input the NLP (Natural Language Processing) data (a sequence of phonemes with length and intonation values elaborated from the text script) computed by FESTIVAL is des...

Powassan Meningoencephalitis, New York, New York, USA

Disease caused by Powassan virus (POWV), a tick-borne flavivirus, ranges from asymptomatic to severe neurologic compromise and death. Two cases of POWV meningoencephalitis in New York, USA, highlight diagnostic techniques, neurologic outcomes, and the effect of POWV on communities to which it is endemic.

Aerospace Sciences Meeting New York, New York