Two partially independent issues are addressed in two auditory rating studies: under what circumstances is a sub-string of a sentence identified as a stand-alone sentence, and under what circumstances do globally ill-formed but 'locally coherent' analyses (Tabor, Galantucci, & Richardson., 2004) emerge? A new type of locally coherent structure is established in Experiment 1, where a that-less c...

A new type of optically transparent electrode is fabricated using template-stripped gold film whose surface shows highly oriented, atomically flat terraces and steps. The electrode indicates typical Au(111) electrochemical properties and stability for spectroelectrochemical measurements.

A new type of intermittent behavior is described to occur near the boundary of the phase synchronization regime of coupled chaotic oscillators. This mechanism, called ring intermittency, arises for sufficiently high initial mismatches in the frequencies of the two coupled systems. The laws for both the distribution and the mean length of the laminar phases versus the coupling strength are analy...

Creating enhanced learning environments based on the opportunities offered by the Internet has become a hotly debated topic among educators. It is certainly true that many educational research and ICT projects have reported a variety of outcomes and lessons learned with regard to these powerful new media and how teachers can effectively integrate technology into learning and teaching, but there...

Retirement villages are a relatively new type of provision in the UK, and data measuring their impact on residents’ health status and quality of life, or on the demand for other health and social care services, is limited. Drawing on the author’s own research, as well as other studies of retirement communities and housing schemes for older people, this report reviews the evidence to date on the...

A new type of biophotometer is described. Very precise and reproducible measurements of bacterial concentration can be performed at 3-s intervals for each of 32 simultaneously developing bacterial cultures. The large number of results is handled with modern data acquisition and computer-processing techniques.

Between 500 BCE and 300 BCE, religions worldwide underwent a dramatic shift, emphasizing morality and asceticism for the first time. A new study suggests that the emergence of this new type of religion can be explained by increases in prosperity.

We find a new type of optical vector soliton that originates from trapping of a dipole mode by the soliton-induced waveguides. These solitons, which appear as a consequence of the vector nature of the two-component system, are more stable than the previously found optical vortex solitons and represent a new type of extremely robust nonlinear vector structure.