There is a long tradition in laboratory phonetics of describing the interaction of phonetic inventories and constraints of auditory perception and articulatory production. For example, Liljencrants & Lindblom (1972) attempted to predict the inventories of typical vowel systems by appealing to the notion of maximal perceptual distinctiveness. Stevens (1989) explained the makeup of these inventor...

A critical question in planning a response to bioterrorism is how antibiotics and medical supplies should be stockpiled and dispensed. The objective of this work was to evaluate the costs and benefits of alternative strategies for maintaining and dispensing local and regional inventories of antibiotics and medical supplies for responses to anthrax bioterrorism. We modeled the regional and local...

[1] Observation-based surface ocean DC distributions and regional inventories for excess, bomb-produced radiocarbon are compared with results of two ocean models of intermediate complexity. By applying current descriptions of the air-sea gas exchange the models produce similar column inventories for excess C among all basins. This result is robust across a wide range of transport parameter sett...

Emission inventories from mobile sources have traditionally been obtained through computer modeling. This method, however, has intrinsic shortcomings in that ideal factors are included while real-world observations are left out. The model predictions have not correlated well with measurements from several studies. Recently, a fuel-based method of obtaining on-road emissions inventories has been...