Calculations are performed to demonstrate the deviations from Gaussian that occur in the spectral line profiles of a linear maser as a result of the amplification process. Near-Gaussian profiles are presented for bright, interstellar 22 GHz water masers obtained from high resolution Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of W3 IRS 5. For the profiles to be so close to Gaussian, the calcul...

Two experiments examined how Dutch listeners deal with the effects of connected-speech processes, specifically those arising from word-final /t/ reduction (e.g., whether Dutch [tas] is tas, bag, or a reduced-/t/ version of tast, touch). Eye movements of Dutch participants were tracked as they looked at arrays containing 4 printed words, each associated with a geometrical shape. Minimal pairs (e...

Across the third world, the discourse on civil society has remained a key feature of democracy promotion initiatives. Scholars evaluating the potential for democracy in these developing states and activists seeking to effect democratic reforms have focused much of their attention on civic associations. They argue that civil societies help to hold states account­ able, represent citizen interest...

We discuss the π + π − invariant-mass correlations and the resonance production in a thermal model with single freeze-out. The predictions are confronted with the recent data from the STAR Collaboration. Detection of hadronic resonances at RHIC (see the contribution of Fa-chini and Refs. [1, 2]) provides important clues on the particle production mechanism and subsequent evolution of the system...

Hypogonadism, whether caused by the failure of gonadal development or function, frequently results in bone loss. In a research article in the April 21, 2006 issue of Cell, Sun et al. investigated the role of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) in the bone loss that is characteristic of hypogonadal mice. They report that female mice lacking either FSHβ or its receptor (FSHR) are resistant to bone...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an ambitious, multi-institutional project to create a huge digital imaging and spectroscopic data bank of 25% of the celestial sphere, approximately 10,000 deg2 centred on the north galactic polar cap. The photometric atlas will be in 5 specially-chosen colours, covering the π ster of the Survey area to a limiting magnitude of r∼23.1, on 0 . 4 pixels, resulting i...

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We have treated bovine lung heparan sulfate with alkaline [3H]borohydride to end label the chains with [3H]xylitol. After subsequent periodate oxidation-alkaline elimination products were separated by gel permeation and ion exchange chromatography. The linkage region fragment expected to have 2 galactoses and 1 [‘HJxylitol residue appeared in the tetra-/trisaccharide region after gel filtration...

Accurate phonetic transcription of proper nouns can be an important resource for commercial applications that embed speech echnologies, such as audio indexing and vocal phone directory lookup. However, an accurate phonetic transcription is more difficult o obtain for proper nouns than for regular words. Indeed, phonetic transcription of a proper noun depends on both the origin of the peaker pro...