sentences. In two related experiments, Wippich found integration effects that strongly favored concrete over abstract sentences in results from recognition, reconstruction, and inference tasks that tapped various aspects of text processing. His conclusions strongly support the dual coding view of qualitative differences in the integration of concrete and abstract sentences and texts. Paivio (in...

Love darts are hard 'needles' that many snails and slugs use to pierce their partner during mating. In a few species, darts have been shown to play a role in sperm competition. Two new papers, by Davison et al., and Koene and Schulenburg, might further pique researchers' interest, because they show how the full potential of darts can be tapped for studies of sexual selection in hermaphrodites.

This paper considers maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of time-varying finite impulse response (FIR) channels. The channel is modelled as a tapped-delay line filter with complex coefficients. The complexity of the likelihood function and the large number of parameters to be estimated, make analytical maximization of the likelihood function infeasible. Taking the structure of the channel tap co...

By Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer, MD, PhD, Michael Meoli, FF/EMT-P, TEMS, Amado Alejandro Baez, MD, MSc, & James M. Etzin, EMT-P "To every man, there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared and unqualified for the work that would b...

The magnitude of the challenge to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere and limit average temperature increases makes it imperative that the contributions of all sectors with significant mitigation potential be tapped to the fullest extent possible. Agriculture is recognized as a sector with such potential and farmers, ranchers, herders and other land users around the ...

Kakamega forest is Kenya's only rainforest and is distinguishably rich in biodiversity but threatened by agricultural encroachment and other forms of human activity. It is also one of Kenya's Important Bird Areas and a significant source of natural products to neighboring rural communities, such as medicinal plants, food, wood and other fibers. By using structured questionnaires for direct inte...

Musical meters vary considerably across cultures, yet relatively little is known about how culture-specific experience influences metrical processing. In Experiment 1, we compared American and Indian listeners' synchronous tapping to slow sequences. Inter-tone intervals contained silence or to-be-ignored rhythms that were designed to induce a simple meter (familiar to Americans and Indians) or ...

By K. VENKAT RAO, Purasawalkam Vepery, Madras. On September 23rd, 1930, a man, aged 25, "came to me to have his hydrocoele tapped, as he wag afraid of operation. The hydrocoele, which was of a fairly big size and tense, measured 8 inches in length and 4 inches in diameter. It was of six months' duration. With due aseptic precautions, it was tapped by means of a trocar and cannula and after the ...