An extensive developmental acoustic study of the speech patterns of children and adults was reported by Lee and colleagues [Lee et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1455-1468 (1999)]. This paper presents a reexamination of selected fundamental frequency and formant frequency data presented in their report for ten monophthongs by investigating sex-specific and developmental patterns using two differ...

The F plasmid is actively partitioned to daughter cells by the sopABC gene. To elucidate the partitioning mechanisms, we simultaneously analysed movements of the plasmid and the SopA ATPase in single living cells. SopA, which is a putative motor protein assembled densely near nucleoid borders and formed a single discrete focus associated with less dense filamentous distribution along the long a...

H. Tajfel's (1970) minimal group paradigm (MGP) research suggests that social categorization is a sufficient antecedent of ingroup-favoring discrimination. Two experiments examined whether discrimination in the MGP arises from categorization or processes of outcome dependence, that is, ingroup reciprocity and outgroup fear. Experiment 1 unconfounded categorization from outcome dependence. Categ...

THE Rh FACTOR AND ITS CLINICAL APPLICATIONS PHILIP LEVINE ALEXANDER S. WIENER Recent Developments in Iso-Immunization by the Rh Factor. Philip Levine.’ Am. J. Obst. & Gynec.

The standard ultraviolet through short-wave infrared (200-2500-nm) diffuse-reflectance material, Halon PTFE, type G-80, is no longer available. Therefore an equivalent diffuse-reflectance standard material must be found. Algoflon F6 is shown here to be an appropriate replacement through the presentation of measurements of various spectral-reflectance properties of Halon and Algoflon F6. The mea...

The paper proposes a socioeconomic framework of supply, demand, and regulation to explain the development of sex-selective abortion in several parts of the world. The framework is then applied to three countries of southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) where sex-selective abortion has developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors argue that sex-selective abortion ...