USGS releases assessment of nation's biological resources
...irector ofthe U.S. Geological Survey, in a keynote speech today announcing the release ofthe government report. The two-volume report, Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources,was presented today at the S. Dillon Ripley Center in the SmithsonianInstitution in an event sponsored by the U.S. Geo...Harvard expert speaks on lead toxicity to chemists' meeting in New Orleans
...e We Learned Our Lesson at Last?" is thetopic of a speech to the American Chemical Society Monday, August 23, by Dr.Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Amory HoughtonProfessor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Harvard University. The ACS, theworld's largest scientific society, is hol...Biomedical engineers working to help kids with special needs
...hem with somestrength. A third project relating to speech therapy and language instructioninvolved developing a digital version of a card reader that enables bothteachers and students to read, record and play back sounds by inserting theappropriate index card into the device. "The graduate studen...UCSF-Led Team Offers New Insight Into Neurological Basis Of Dyslexia
...he deficiency contributes to difficulties in early speech andlanguage learning, and leads to a weakness in t... into the cerebral cortical system underlyingaural speech representation," said the senior author of the study, MichaelMerzenich, Ph.D., the Francis A. Sooy P...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
...s acoustical properties, the authors find that the speech in the new theater is intelligible, but achieving an adequate volume level is more of a problem. (2pAAa3) --- The Silent Flight of the Owl. Next-generation commercial aircraft, such as the proposed Airbus A3XX, will be so large that they will likel...Life Among Dead Brain Cells: Discovery Could Help Improve Memory Capacity Of Stroke Victims
...in ages. For stroke survivors, recovering speech or motor skills typicallyrequires many years of speech and physical therapy. Sharp cautions that moreresearch is needed to determine whether or not sparki......syis whether Broca's areas is specialized just for speech or language in general.We have now been able to id...s area is involved in languageproduction, not just speech production but any language spoken or signed. Thisis the best evidence that it is responsible for la...Cardinals Can Recognize Gender By Song, Columbia University Biologist Finds
...nformation that could show how humanbabies acquire speech -- a process that is still not fully understood. By working with baby cardinals, Ayako Yamaguchi, postdoctoral researchscientist at Columbia, found that male birds can learn songs from adult females,and females from males. But as the birds g...National Science Foundation Is Taking Small Business Into A New Phase Of Innovation
...talcellular radio network by compressing the human speech to the lowest data ratepossible without degrading the voice quality. Currently, Time Division MultipleAccess (TDMA) is one of four main airlink standards used in the U.S. Periclehas divined a method to double TDMA capacity by increasing the average...As The City Goes, So Goes The World: Symposium At ESA Meeting To Examine The Ecology Of Cities
...bitt is scheduled to open this year's plenary. His speech is entitled "Restoring Watersheds and Ecosystems a... Foundation,will present the keynote address. Her speech is entitled "Balancing theBiocomplexity of the Planet's Living Systems: A 21st Century Task for Scie......bitt is scheduled to open this year's plenary. His speech is entitled "Restoring Watersheds and Ecosystems a... Foundation,will present the keynote address. Her speech is entitled "Balancing theBiocomplexity of the Planet's Living Systems: A 21st Century Task for Scie...Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt To Speak At Ecological Society of Americas 1998 Annual Meeting
...bitt is scheduled to open this year's plenary. His speech is entitled "Restoring Watersheds and Ecosystems a...of theMillennium." Dr. Bierbaum will close with a speech on "Achieving a SustainableFuture: Challenges and Opportunities in Monitoring and Assessment of OurN...Announcing ESA's 1998 Annual Meeting
... Foundation,will present the keynote address. Her speech is entitled "Environmental Issuesin the 21st Century." Also speaking will be Donald Boesch, President of theUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies. Hisspeech is entitled "Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem: A Chal...Jefferson Researchers Provide Leads To Potential Parkinson's Treatment
...ts, difficultywalking, shuffling feet, decrease in speech volume, fatigue, and balanceproblems. In Parkinson's, sufferers lack the brain chemical dopamine due to thedeath of dopamine-producing nerve cells and their endings. Dr. Schneider is "proposing to do another double-blind trial, but thistime g...FDA Approves Hopkins-Designed Implants To Restore Lost Voices
...lk to weakened vocal cords, returning the power of speech to those who havelost their voices from paralysis associated with throat cancers, strokes orother conditions. The patented implants were approved by the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration in early spring. The implants, shaped like the heads ...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
....titech.ac.jp ) will forecast future directions in speech recognition and speechsynthesis technology, including how conversations might be held between machines and humans in thefuture (June 22); Neville Fletcher of the Australian National Institute ( neville.fletcher@anu.edu.a ) willexplain how one can tin...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
...t conveys," he said "It can be as complex as human speech by such measures asthe number of units per time, bandwidth, or the rate of acoustic modulations.But if a bird is only more or less just advertising its species, defending aterritory or attracting females, why then are bird songs so complex?" ......sts' evidence disagrees with the theory that human speech may not havearisen until about 40,000 years ago, based on the unambiguous appearance ofsymbols in the archaeological record. Some researchers infer the presence oflanguage abilities from such symbols as body ornamentation and deliberate burialpracti......, will begin the day-long conference with akeynote speech entitled "Cell Life and Cell Death." In subsequent presentations,some of the nation's leading geneticists will speak about their gene studies ona wide range of living things -- from bacteria and yeast to plants, mice andhumans. "In the future, human ...