During the past two decades anaphylactic phenomena induced by simple chemical compounds have been studied experimentally by a few investigators, especially by Landsteiner and Sulzberger and their collaborators in the United States of America. We also have carried out several experiments along this line, and our observations conducted in this laboratory are briefly described herein without refer...

The purpose of this paper is to review relevant literatures on career success and develop a theoretical framework and testable propositions concerning how person-job fit and perceived organizational support relate to career success.

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to clarify the distinction between research and audit, and propose appropriate regulatory arrangements for audit and related activities. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The methods used were literature reviews and conceptual analysis. FINDINGS Research and audit overlap in various ways, but differ in terms of their purposes and the risks likely to be encou...

BACKGROUND Outcomes in aging and health research, such as longevity, can be conceptualized as reflecting both genetic and environmental (nongenetic) effects. Parsing genetic and environmental influences can be challenging, particularly when taking a life span perspective, but an understanding of how genetic variants and environments relate to successful aging is critical to public health and in...

17 Introduction 18 Materials and Methods 20 Results 30 Discussion 33 Acknowledgments 37 Literature Cited 37 CHAPTER 3. EFFECTS OF ENTOMOPATHOGENS ON MORTALITY OF WESTERN CORN ROOTWORM AND FITNESS COSTS OF RESISTANCE TO CRY3BB1 MAIZE 50 Abstract 50 Introduction 51 Materials and Methods 54 Results 61 Discussion 62 Acknowledgments 66 Literature Cited 66 CHAPTER 4. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 7750 Introduc...

HLSyn is a quasi-articulatory synthesizer (independent of any particular language) with a small set of parameters, which model the complex acoustic consequences of vocal tract. The primary motivation of using HLSyn is to combine the ‘simplicity of control’ of articulatory synthesizers with ‘accuracy and efficiency’ of formant synthesizers. The aim of this paper is to analyze the quality of nonn...

As an extension of a series of models we have developed, a mechanical bent vocal-tract model with nasal cavity was proposed for educational and clinical applications, as well as for understanding human speech production. Although our recent studies have focused on flap and approximant sounds, this paper introduced a new model for the consonants [b], [m] and [w]. Because the articulatory gesture...