Dr. Mel Spira

Learning from Henry Spira.

For a very long time, the scientific and animal welfare communities have faced each other across a seemingly unbridgeable divide. Each side tends to view the other in simplistic and distorted terms. Animal welfare advocates see scientists as, at worst, sadists who enjoy torturing animals, and at best, as self-interested careerists intent on building careers out of publishing more papers and get...

Spira - a Scanning Polarimetric Imaging Radiometer in W-band

SPIRA is a polarimetric imaging radiometer at 91 GHz, intended for obtaining signatures of the brightness temperature distribution of the Earth surface in all four Stokes parameters. SPIRA will be transportable by two persons and be set up within hours. A radiometric sensitivity of less than 1 K will be achieved with a superheterodyne receiver at a bandwidth of 2 GHz, millisecond sampling time ...

Mel-Wiener Filter for Mel-LPC Based Speech Recognition

Spira-Wash GelTM Wound Care Base – an Antimicrobial Evaluation

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Comments of Mel J

I am writing this letter on behalf of the International Diatomite Producers Association (“IDPA”), a trade association of producers of diatomaceous earth products that was formed in 1987. IDPA includes in its membership companies both doing business and operating facilities in the state of California. IDPA sponsored one of the principal epidemiology studies relating to crystalline silica exposur...