Pavarotti in Pearl Creek

Pavarotti: King of Second Formant Tuning

Most people with even a small interest in opera have heard of the late Luciano Pavarotti, often called the "King of the High C's." He gained this informal title by genuine achievement, which was followed by the fame that came from well-attended performances that reached still larger audiences through broadcasts and recordings. In truth it was not so much the high C's that made him famous. For o...

Qualitative spot biotic survey of Oaks Creek, White Creek, Cripple Creek, and Moe Pond in Otsego County, New York

As non-native species move across the landscape and hydrofracking and other human impacts increase in scope, it is becoming more critical than ever that we can quantify changes to community structure. In order to do that, however, we must first have baseline data on which species are initially present. These baseline data also have the benefit of facilitating speciesspecific research by identif...

Pearl drops

– If deposited on a hydrophobic rough substrate, a small drop of water can look like a pearl, with a contact angle close to 180. We examine the conditions for observing such a phenomenon and show practical achievements where the contact angle can be predicted and thus quantitatively tuned by the design of the surface microstructure. Presentation. – The contact angle of a drop on a solid is idea...

Up a chemical creek.

mycin and roxithromycin (RXM) have an anti-inflammatory effect that may account for their clinical benefit in the treatment of chronic airway inflammatory diseases. However, the precise mechanism of this anti-inflammatory effect is not well understood. Purpose : The influence of RXM on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 production from neutrophils in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulati...

Crossing the quality creek.