New McGill researchers win recognition
...from work on HIV/AIDS and the hepatitis-C virus to speech disorders to photonic and wireless technologies. Geography professor Rene Sieber obtained the University's first CFI-funded project in the management sciences, with a successful proposal to examine e-commerce for community economic development. "Las...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
...r of the House Committee on Small Business and his speech follows a special session on development and support of small minority chemical businesses. (Monday, August 27, noon) Tuesday, August 28 Campfires, fireplaces may be pollution sources in Great Lakes region The Great Lakes region has long b...Device liberates quadriplegic from ventilator
...ore time to speak and a more normal and expressive speech pattern. This is in contrast to life on the ventilator, which allows him to speak only when air makes a trip across his vocal cords while it is being pumped into his lungs. "I love that I don't have to wait for the darn vent to give me a breath," s...Study looks at causes, consequences of sex differences
...phere. Therefore, women are more likely to recover speech after a left-brain stroke, while it is much more difficult for men to recover from it. And women are nearly twice as vulnerable to diseases caused by tobacco smoke than men, which may account for an increase in the incidence of lung cancer among wome...Increased awareness of stroke symptoms could dramatically reduce stroke disability
...den confusion or trouble speaking or understanding speech * Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes * Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, or loss of balance or coordination * Sudden severe headache with no known cause The Know Stroke: Know the Signs. Act in Time campaign is being launched in M...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...quencies in the human hearing range, especially in speech -- and one that will be highly directional, fit inside the ear canal and be affordable." Other applications of the bio-inspired silicon ear might be in robotic listening devices, he suggests. "I've been doing basic biological studies of insect hea...Genes don`t control human behavior, evolutionist says
...smart, giving us the physical talents required for speech and tool making, and influencing a few key behavioral features such as our interest in sex and our penchant for keeping track of who`s related to whom." Human Natures Ehrlich first wrote about "gene shortage" in his recent book Human Natures: Genes, ...Why monkeys don't hear as well as humans
...ventually translates into meaningful sound such as speech or music - must fight their way through a lot of noise. "Normal healthy human ears can detect signals so weak that they are barely able to emerge from random noise that exists around us all the time," Harrison said. "The human ear is a remarkable th...Can Superman get off the ventilator and breathe normally?
...is less than two seconds in duration. That is why speech is so halted and unnatural. When Conlan is off ...ore time to speak and a more normal and expressive speech pattern. "I love that I dont have to wait for the darn vent to give me a breath," says Conlan. "Wi...New $35.5 million center for mind, brain and learning created at UW
...ve the lives of young children. Patricia Kuhl, UW speech and hearing sciences professor, and Andrew Meltzoff, UW psychology professor, have been named co-directors of the interdisciplinary center. Kuhl and Meltzoff are inter- nationally known for their research on child development and the brain mechanisms...Hummingbird studies raise questions about birdsong evolution
...se few mammals have developed the ability to learn speech or sing. Jarvis and the other lead collaborator, Claudio Mello of Rockefeller University, gatheredmuch of their data for this study in Espírito Santo, Brazil, where a living museum and nature reserveof the Atlantic Tropical Forest dedicated...A new picture of the brain may reveal the key to Alzheimer's
...rols higher functions such as rational thought and speech -- may hold the key to understanding, and perhaps reversing, the ravages of this devastating disease," says H. Eugene Stanley, co-senior author and director of Boston University's Center for Polymer Studies. The team of physicists, working on tissu...Smoking during pregnancy found to increase risk of cleft lip and palate
...ears of therapy, but can still leave behind scars, speech impediments and emotional damage. Chung and Buchm...facial surgeons, orthodontists, otolaryngologists, speech and language pathologists, social workers, geneticists, nutritionists, and pediatricians. The progra...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...ncer research, biogenetics, chemistry, physics and speech science. Several laureates have dramatically impa... of Technology, for pioneering work in the area of speech science that led to the development of new technologies to synthesize and recognize speech. "...... symptoms include a wide, prancing gait, hesitant speech and intellectual deterioration. Symptoms appear in the fourth or fifth decade of life, and then progress steadily during the succeeding 10 to 20 years. Death follows, and there are no effective treatments available. The study, directed by Chr...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...ven though he hadbeen ill with cancer since May. A speech in tribute to Stebbins will be made by eminent botanistPeter Raven, Engelmann Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. The seeds of Stebbins' lifelong passion for nature were planted on walks with his mother, whotaught her children...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...computer-supported teaching, and subsequently with speech development. From 1980 to 1982, supported by a DFG...cio-psychological topics such as the links between speech and social perception, and with processes of social information processing. In addition to this, he ...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...uctures and demands impact on religious behaviour, speech and thought? Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rainer Albertz, Alttestamentliches Seminar, tel.: 0251/83 22512/13 Symbolic acts and ritualised, traditional or ceremonial forms are the tools of politics and the law, religion and everyday life. The new collaborat...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Joseph Testa receives 1999 Irving J. Selikoff Award for Cancer Research
...this year's awards. The program included a keynote speech by Dr. Linda Rosenstock, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and a six-member panel discussing "The Status of Genetic Testing in the Workplace." Testa spoke on "Mesothelioma, Genes and the Workplace." Past Selikoff......t is currently implicated in some form of specific speech and language impairment, a disorder having characteristics that overlap that of autism. "We believe there must be more than one gene involved in autism," Piven says. "As in all complex behavioral disorders, there's no clear evidence when looking at f...