Really Special Violet

Eukaryotes really are special, and mitochondria are why.

Is Spatial Really That Special? A Tale of Spaces

Perceptual cues of whispered tones: are they really special?

This paper reports our initial findings on whether Mandarin Chinese has developed effective strategies to convey tonal information in whispered speech. We recorded phonated and whispered tones in monosyllabic words, and analyzed the acoustic properties of the tonal contrasts. We then generated amplitude-modulated noise based on both the phonated and whispered utterances and used them as stimuli...

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Cigarette smuggling in Europe: who really benefits?

Cigarette smuggling, now on the increase, is so widespread and well organised that it poses a serious threat to public health. This threat comes from two principal directions. First, smuggling makes cigarettes available cheaply, thereby increasing consumption. A third of annual global exports go to the contraband market, representing an enormous impact on consumption, and thus causing an increa...

Ultra-violet absorption cross sections

Ultra-violet absorption cross sections of isotopically substituted nitrous oxide species: NNO, NNO, NNO and NNO P. von Hessberg, J. Kaiser , M. B. Enghoff, C. A. McLinden, S. L. Sorensen, T. Röckmann, and M. S. Johnson Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Atmospheric Physics Division, Heidelberg, Germany now at: Departm...