Extremely strong magnetic fields at the frequencies used in an electromagnetic articulometer (EMA) system may pose a risk to the health of a subject. To avoid such risks, the field strengths produced by any EMA system should be measured, and compared to published permissible exposure standards. This letter reports measurements of the 2-50kHz magnetic field strength of the Carstens Articulograph...

Perceptual representations of phonemes are flexible and adapt rapidly to accommodate idiosyncratic articulation in the speech of a particular talker. This letter addresses whether such adjustments remain stable over time and under exposure to other talkers. During exposure to a story, listeners learned to interpret an ambiguous sound as f or s . Perceptual adjustments measured after 12 h were a...

1. Forthal DN. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors in persons with repeated exposure to human immunodeficiency virus [letter]. J Infect Dis 1999;180: 1406. 2. Goh WC, Markee J, Akridge RE, et al. Protection against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in persons with repeated exposure: evidence for T cell immunity in the absence of CCR5 coreceptor defects. J Infect Dis 1999;179:548–57. 3...

Eighty children (kindergarten through 4th grade) performed discrimination and identification tasks for tachistoscopically-presented letter pairs. Letter pairs manipulated font (Times New Roman, Arial), point size (12and 18-point) and letter-pair discrimination difficulty (easy, medium, and hard). Higher percent correct scores occurred for the Arial font and 18-pt size, and performance was bette...

Consider the following model: we have N parallel sticks of integer length, and at integer moments exactly one stick grows by 1, with the probability of k-th stick growing proportional to a fixed power 1'1of its length, properly normalized. Equivalently, we consider sequences of points of the first quadrant of Rn such that on each step exactly one of the coordinates of the point gets incremented...

Recent international summits of the International Federation of Societies of Toxicologic Pathologists (IFSTP) have debated the desirability and potential means by which the proficiency of an individual toxicologic pathologist might be recognized and communicated throughout the world. The present document describes the advantages and disadvantages of implementing such a global recognition system...

This paper delimits and analyzes the effects of the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country. The aim was to provide a taxonomy of the consequences of psychological violence and to validate this taxonomy, by means of a content analysis of 37 testimonies of victims of terrorist violence. The taxonomy of consequences of psychological violence is made up by four comp...

Ying Wu, Zhaohui Yuan, Yanpeng Wu *1, Corresponding Author Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail:[email protected] Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail: [email protected] Department of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, PR China, E-mail:wu.yanpe...