Introduction: Emerging data suggest that receipt of the seasonal influenza vaccine may be associated with an enhanced risk of infection with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (pH1N1). We sought to evaluate different seasonal vaccination strategies during a pandemic in the presence of varying levels of pH1N1 infection risk following seasonal influenza vaccine receipt. Methods: We developed a deterministic, a...

The postmodern organization has a design paradox in which leaders are concerned with efficiency and control as well as complex functioning. Traditional leadership theory has limited applicability to postmodern organizations as it is mainly focused on efficiency and control. As a result, a new theory of leadership that recognizes the design paradox has been proposed: complexity leadership theory...

The goal of this chapter is to illustrate the usefulness of articulatory modeling (AM) as a tool for exploring the realization of phonological contrasts. The potential of the method as a tool in phonology is illustrated by addressing some key aspects of French sounds. Because it is based on French, this paper gives a French point of view on the vocal tract (VT) as a contrast generator. This is ...

—Model-Driven Software Development œ Techniques and Case Study“ Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is an emerging technology approach that has potential to revolutionize the software industry. MDSD has the ability to both increase software delivery velocity, while at the same time reduce complexity and reuse software assets. Experts in the field believe that the MDSD approach helps to abs...

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Model organisms such as Drosophila are receiving increased attention for studies of human neurodegenerative disease. Although the merit of such systems for genetic studies is apparent, the relevance of a neurodegenerative phenotype in flies, whose lifespan is measured in weeks, to the long duration of human neurodegenerative diseases would seem less clear. However, two articles in this issue of...

This paper examines acoustic aspects of vowel harmony (VH), understood as regressive vowel-tovowel assimilation, in two regional varieties of French in six speakers’ productions of 107 disyllabic word pairs. In each word pair, the word-initial vowel (V1) was phonemically either /e/ or /o/, and the word-final stressed vowel (V2) alternated between /e-E/, /ø-œ/, /o-O/ or /i-a/. Results are consis...

ofexcised human lungs obtained at autopsy, the parenchyma and peripheral airways were examined by means of mor. phometric techniques. Among the 30 lungs characterized by the absence offibrosis, ten differed from the normal and emphysematous lungs by a homogeneous dilatation of the airspaces, in excess of the dimensions predicted on the basis of age. Study of the standard deviations of the mean ...

T HE PEDIATRICIANwith the responsibility for directing the care of a child with a cleft lip and cleft palate is confronted by conflicting points of view in the literature, especially in regard to the effects of palatal surgery on facial growth and contour. For many years the majority of plastic surgeons have recommended repair of the cleft lip in the first few months of life for both func tiona...

This paper deals with the perception of linguistic and paralinguistic qualities conveyed by synthetic vowels produced with an articulatory model in which transfer functions of the French vowels /i y e ø  œ/ characteristic of five growth stages were each combined with five different F0 values. Listeners had to judge the speaker's age and sex in addition to vowel quality. Four subgroups of liste...