A new technique, tagged Cine-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (tMRI), was used to develop a mechanical model that represented local, homogeneous, internal tongue deformation during speech. The goal was to infer muscle activity within the tongue from tissue deformations seen on tMRI. Measurements were made in three sagittal slices (left, middle, right) during production of the syllable /ka/. Each slic...

The present study examined the relationship between social influence and recommendation decisions among adolescents in the new media environment. Participants completed the App Recommendation Task—a task that captures neural processes associated with making recommendations to others, with and without information about peer recommendations of the type commonly available online. Our results demon...

In this brief article we describe the role of compression of the vertebral subclavian arteries, internal mammary, internal carotid arteries, brachial plexus and coiling and kinking of the vertebral and basilar arteries, the faulty irrigation of blood supply and oxygen of the cerebellum and basal ganglia of the brain. Among the effects are: a decrease in the secretion of dopamine at the level of...

This paper will consider the implications of the Australian Government’s recent national security and antiterrorism legislation for its relations with Australian citizens and with third sector organisations, like those comprising the community legal sector, that seek to promote and defend citizens’ civil, political and social rights. The series of bills enacted by the Australian Parliament sinc...

We present a hardware-software cosimulation environment f o r heterogeneous systems. To be an eficient system veriJication environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides following features: interface transparency, smooth transition to cosynthesis, simulation acceleration, and integrated user interface and internal representation. Among them, thejrst two...

We present a hardware-software cosimulation environment for heterogeneous systems. To be an efficient system verification environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides following features: interface transparency, smooth transition to cosynthesis, simulation acceleration, and integrated user interface and internal representation. Among them, the first tw...