243 In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed that the “racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.” The authors assess the tenor of racial attitudes in white and black America across the ensuing four decades. Their core conclusion is paradoxical. On one hand, a massive positive change in social norms regarding race has taken place that dislodged Jim Crow ideology and now calls ...

This paper presents a case study on the use of ultrasound as visual biofeedback in a short master class lesson for two young, tenor singers-in-training. Even in such a short period of time, the singers both exhibit subjectively improved changes in production techniques such as the movement and position of the tongue and the Low Mandible Maneuver (LMM – the downward relaxation of the singer’s po...

The aim of the present study was to predict which patients with severe or difficult-to-treat asthma are at highest risk for healthcare utilisation can be predicted so as to optimise clinical management. Data were derived from 2,821 adults with asthma enrolled in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens (TENOR) study. Multiple potential predictors were asse...

BACKGROUND The TENOR study consists of a large cohort of subjects with severe or difficult-to-treat asthma. The objective of this analysis was to evaluate demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects 12 years of age or older with immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergic asthma (skin test positive with an IgE level = 30 to =700 IU/mL), and specifically, to assess gender differences in th...

Noisegate 67 was the first fully interactive composition written for the Computer Metasaxophone, a new computer controller interface for electroacoustic music. The Metasaxophone is an acoustic tenor saxophone retrofitted with an onboard computer microprocessor and an array of sensors that convert performance data into MIDI control messages. While maintaining full acoustic functionality the Meta...

Differences in vowel formants in bass and tenor singers, as well as the perception of vowels synthesised at different fundamental frequencies predict that in a group of male or female speakers exhibiting a sufficiently wide range of average fundamental frequencies, there will be a positive correlation between the speakers’ average f0 and the dimensions of their acoustic vowel spaces. This hypot...

Vocal registers are generally assumed to be associated with the voice source, i.e. the pulsating transglottal airflow. The waveform of this airflow was analysed by inverse filtering in professional singers, four counter tenors, five tenors, and four baritones singing the syllable [pae:] in soft, middle, and loud voice in modal and falsetto/counter tenor register. Subglottal pressure, estimated ...

Today, one existing class of RFID systems are based on ISO 14443 (Proximity Coupling). This is the standard for RF-interfaces of contactless smart card systems. Contactless RF interfaces of smart cards are very often regarded as less secure than contact based smart cards. This tenor may be changed based on our new approach. Therefore we suggest to establish secure password authenticated wireles...