In four experiments, participants named target pictures that were accompanied by distractor pictures with phonologically related or unrelated names. Across experiments, the type of phonological relationship between the targets and the related distractors was varied: They were homophones (e.g., bat [animal/baseball]), or they shared word-initial segments (e.g., dog-doll) or word-final segments (...

The old picture environment, introduced by Leslie Lamport into the LATEX kernel almost 20 years ago, appears to be neglected in favor of more modern and powerful LATEX packages that eliminate all drawbacks of the original environment. Nevertheless it is still being used behind the scenes by a number of other packages. Lamport announced an extension in 1994 that should have removed all the limit...

Figures 2 and 3 are time-lapse frames taken of the Sacramento WSR-57 radar repeater scope during the early morning hours of 'Dec. 20, 1968. A Fairchild recording camera was used. The aperture setting was f/8, and the film was 35-mm Eastman Plus-X, type 4231. Almost all echoes in the photographs are ground clutter. Figure 2 (1136 GMT) shows a weak apparent hook-or 6-shaped precipitation echo (A)...

The goal of componentware is to carry the old dream of building software systems by assembling pre-fabricated components to undreamt brilliancy. Although there is a variety of technical concepts and tools for componentoriented software engineering, the successful model from the building industry could not be transferred fully to software development yet. In our opinion, this is mostly due to th...

T he Fourth International Conference on Neuroesthetics was not a large event, but it was an unusual one. Held on a single day in the basement auditorium of the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California at Berkeley, it brought together a typically motley collection of intellectuals who would willingly give over a sunny Saturday to an opportunity to learn from a panel of distinguished s...

Nanobubbles, whose existence on hydrophobic surfaces immersed in water has previously been inferred from measurements of long-ranged attractions between such surfaces, are directly imaged by tapping mode atomic force microscopy. It is found that the nanobubbles cover the surfaces in an irregular, interconnected or close-packed network whose morphology is dependent on pH and whose lifetimes are ...