The Seventeen-Year Cicada

Studies on the Acoustical Behavior of Seventeen-year Cicadas

A Seventeen-Year Study of Plant Succession in Prairie

Seventeen-year survivorship analysis of silastic metacarpophalangeal joint replacement .

We reviewed the records and radiographs of 381 patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had undergone silastic metacarpophalangeal joint replacement during the past 17 years. The number of implants was 1336 in the course of 404 operations. Implant failure was defined as either revision or fracture of the implant as seen on radiography. At 17 years, the survivorship was 63%, although on radiograph...

Studies on the Acoustical Behavior of Seventeen-Year Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)

Max at Seventeen

I have worked for many years on a computer environment for realizing works of live electronic music, which I named in honor of Max Mathews. Three currently supported computer programs—Max/MSP, Jmax, and Pd—can be considered as extended implementations of a common paradigm I'll refer to here as " Max. " The Max paradigm appears to be stable enough now that a printed description of it no longer r...