Interview with Suzanne Hanser, WFMT President, 2002-2005

Suzanne Hanser + ( USA ) Music Therapy - Based Mechanisms for Coping with Stress and Pain

This article describes three research investigations that focus on the effects of music therapy interventions with different forms of stress and pain. The first study involves music listening strategies for women in labor and delivery; the second tests the impact of eight music listening strategies on depression, anxiety, self-esteem and mood in clinically depressed older adults; the third util...

The Making of a President: An Interview with Shirley Tilghman

To see one of our own at the helm of a major university is unquestionably inspirational. And for those of us with two X chromosomes, perhaps even more so. I tried to imagine myself in the role of laboratory Cinderella: plucked from the work-a-day world of robocyclers and biohazard waste to a realm of literati, artists, and trustees, gliding into, if not glass slippers, pantyhose and pumps and a...

An Interview with Vladimir Trifonov ( 2005

The 2005 Danny Lewin Prize for the best student paper at STOC was awarded to Vladimir Trifonov, of the University of Texas at Austin, for his paper “An O(logn log log n) Space Algorithm for Undirected st-Connectivity” [1]. Hal Gabow recently started the tradition of interviewing the Danny Lewin Prize winner and publishing the interview in SIGACT News. (An interview with the 2003 winner Tom Haye...

ELMO – Miniaturising Electronics 2002-2005

Practically all wireless transceivers need a time or frequency reference for communication. The conventional solution is the quartz-crystal oscillator. However, in the modern highly integrated wireless architectures quartz crystals are significant size consumers and form a bottleneck for transceiver miniaturization. Using the MEMS technology (MEMS = Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), it is poss...

President Bush's 2002 budget proposal would hamper geriatric education.