Sense & Nonsense: Thinking Poetry

Common Sense and Nonsense

The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the i...

Making sense out of nonsense.

T is considerable interest among protein scientists in methods that permit unnatural amino acids to be incorporated at specific sites in proteins. Such methods would facilitate studies of protein structure and function and would allow for the synthesis of proteins having novel properties. Current methods use nonsense-suppressing tRNAs (1) to incorporate an unnatural amino acid at the desired si...

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

plied to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinorial fields in order to prepare the reader for understanding field interactions. The authors introduce the scattering matrix, FeynmanDyson diagrams, and the effective scattering cross section as general problems of field interactions. They examine divergence-free second order processes, using Compton scattering and Møller scattering as examples, and ca...

Sense Meets Nonsense - Sense Meets Nonsense - a dual-layer Danish speech corpus for perception studies

In this paper, we present the newly established Danish speech corpus PiTu. The corpus consists of recordings of 28 native Danish talkers (14 female and 14 male) each reproducing (i) a series of nonsense syllables, and (ii) a set of authentic natural language sentences. The speech corpus is tailored for investigating the relationship between early stages of the speech perceptual process and late...