Current psychological models of word production (e.g. Dell, 1986; Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999) only detail how we plan the phonological content of words, and not how we articulate them. To understand how these models may be extended, we must determine how information flows from phonological encoding to articulation. For example, does activation cascade from unselected phonological representa...

High time resolution spectroscopic observations of the ultra-compact helium dwarf nova ‘SN 2003aw’ in its quiescent state at V ∼ 20.5 reveal its orbital period at 2027.8±0.5 seconds or 33.80 minutes. Together with the photometric “superhump” period of 2041.5±0.5 seconds, this implies a mass ratio q≈ 0.036. We compare both the average and time-resolved spectra of ‘SN 2003aw’ and SDSS J124058.03−...

Four new species of the genera Dryophthoroides Roelofs, 1879 and Nephius Pascoe, 1885 from tribe Stromboscerini subfamily Dryophthorinae are described illustrated. telnovi Legalov, sp. nov. New Guinea (Star Mountains) is similar to D. seftoni (Zimmermann, 1944) bit differs in shorter thicker rostrum narrower pronotum. It distinguish beccarii (Pascoe, 1885) smaller body size, rostrum, coarser pu...

lants: antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 2012; 141: e24S–43S 2 Levi M. Emergency reversal of antithrombotic treatment. Intern Emerg Med 2009; 4: 137–45 3 de Swart CA, Nijmeyer B, Roelofs JM, Sixma JJ. Kinetics of intravenously administered heparin in normal humans. Blood 1982; 60: ...

B. Rapp and M. Goldrick (2000) claimed that the lexical and mixed error biases in picture naming by aphasic and nonaphasic speakers argue against models that assume a feedforward-only relationship between lexical items and their sounds in spoken word production. The author contests this claim by showing that a feedforward-only model like WEAVER++ (W. J. M. Levelt, A. Roelofs, & A. S. Meyer, 199...

Disagreement exists about whether color-word Stroop facilitation is caused by converging information (e.g., Cohen et al., 1990; Roelofs, 2003) or inadvertent reading (MacLeod & MacDonald, 2000). Four experiments tested between these hypotheses by examining Stroop effects on response time (RT) both within and between languages. Words cannot be read aloud to produce facilitation between languages...

We use a masked priming procedure to test two accounts of the picture-word interference (PWI) effect: the lexical selection by competition account (Levelt et al., 1999; Roelofs, 1992) and the response selection account (Lupker, 1979; Miozzo and Caramazza, 2003). In the visible (standard) condition, we replicated the often-observed semantic interference effect. In the masked condition, we observ...

It is widely assumed that spoken word production in Germanic languages like Dutch and English involves a parallel activation of phonemic segments and metrical frames in memory, followed by a serial association of segments to the frame, as implemented in the WEAVER++ model (Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999). However, for Oriental languages like Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, researchers have sugge...

Mechoris ursulus (Roelofs) (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) is a pest weevil of Fagaceae oak trees in eastern Asia. The female has a distinct branch-cutting behavior in conjunction with oviposition in the acorns of its host plant. This study analyzed the factors influencing oviposition preference by carrying out continuous field surveys over the course of 2009-2010 and through laboratory rearing. The ...

Any non-living factors that affect negatively living organisms are reunited under the general term “abiotic stress” and its effects can be and are mitigated by a variety of defense mechanisms developed by the different biological systems in existence. Examples of abiotic stress are desiccation, salinity, high and low temperature. There are two general mechanisms used to counteract abiotic stres...