The Polish vocative chant is a melody used, as in other languages, to call someone for a routine reason. Three repetitions of 12 Polish names (1-4 syllables long, 3 names per syllable count) were elicited from 16 speakers using a Discourse Completion Task. The results, based on data from 11 speakers (6 female), showed that the contour ends in a small rise (not a plateau as in other languages), ...

This paper describes in brief DigLib 2000, a working prototype of a Web-based digital library. Core of this system is the so called intelligent knowledge system based on Hyperwave with several sophisticated information gatherer, analyzer, and broker modules. Relevance based keyword extraction and explanation is implemented as well as automatic vocative hyperlink creation. Dynamic relevance asse...

Female dogs mounted other females more frequently when the 2nd bitch was in estrus, but the hormonal state of the mounting individual had little influence upon mount frequency; estrogen rendered a female more pro­ vocative or stimulating and more cooperative or receptive to mounting by another dog. During heterosexual tests estrous females tended to mount males selectively, responding readily t...