A static view of the world permeates most research in speech and hearing. In this idealised situation, sources don’t move and neither do listeners; the acoustic environment doesn’t change; and speakers speak without any effect of auditory input from their own voice or other speakers. Corpora for speech research and most behavioural tasks have grown to reflect the static viewpoint. Yet it is cle...

seek to describe the outlook and life of a practising psychiatrist. But in every other respect they differ considerably from each other. Whilst the reader may disagree with many of Dr. Myerson's views and dislike intensely his dogmatic and rather superficial methods of describing these attitudes, he cannot fail to be impressed by the sincerity of what is obviously a serious attempt to seek a ps...

anyone who has read Hilary Mantel’s magnificent Booker prize-winning novel Wolf Hall will be in no doubt about the fate of government advisers who give their masters the wrong advice. During the reign of England’s tudor king, Henry Viii, refusal to recant your views resulted not only in a swift fall from grace and power, but also a short trip from Westminster to the tower of London. if you were...

CA Corresponding Author Fax: +81 195 78 3357 E-mail: [email protected] TW O {Met(0)}deacetyl-thymosin b 4 analogs containing Phe(4F) or Tyr(Me) at position 12 were synthesized by the manual solid-phase method, and their anti-inflammatory effect on carrageenin-induced edema in the mouse paw was studied. Fluorination of the para-position of Phe resulted in a marked antiinflammatory effect o...

BACKGROUND Depression is the leading cause of disability for childbearing women. We examined three specific research questions among Punjabi-speaking women residing in the Fraser Health Authority: 1) What are the prevalence rates of prenatal depressive symptoms? 2) Do Punjabi-speaking women have a higher likelihood of reporting depressive symptoms compared to English-speaking women after contro...

The objective of this short Editorial is to briefly examine the hypothesis that scientific data is, in itself, ‘fully capable of advancing knowledge (of lactation science) in a significant way that could provide clear benefit to human society or (dairy) animals’, this being the basic requirement for publication in this Journal. Knowledge is variously defined as familiarity, awareness or underst...