Using data obtained as part of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS; Kennicutt et al. 2003) and WSRT-SINGS radio continuum survey (Braun et al. 2006), we study the effects of star-formation activity on the far-infrared (FIR)–radio correlation within galaxies. This is done by testing a phenomenological model for the correlation, which describes the radio image as a smeared version ...

Runesinger is a demo of a PC videogame to practice speaking and spelling Korean. This computer-assisted language learning teaches a few meaningful nouns and verbs through the task of serving food to hungry villagers during the North Korean famine of 1997. Inspired by melodic intonation therapy (MIT), the phrases are embedded in jingles. While the user listens and sings each note, a bouncing bal...

contemporary   poetry   has  always  aimed  at  achieving  its  goal  in  reflecting  social  &  political  realities   and  awaring  people  and  encouraging  them  in  changes  which  lead  to  improvements  by (using & exploiting )  new  literary  techniques. moreover ,  applying  symbols  as  one  of  the  literary  interpretation ,  is  the  most  salient  sample  of contemporary arabic  p...

In birds and other vertebrates, most acoustic signals are produced pneumatically by moving air through a vocal apparatus. Here we describe a unique mechanism used to produce a tonal acoustic signal in vertebrates. Video recordings of the courtship displays of male Club-winged Manakins, Machaeropterus deliciosus, reveal that males produce sustained harmonic tones through interactions among oscil...

Association of Metabolic Syndrome in Nondiabetic Patients with Increased Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease: The Fat Lady Sings John R. Sedor* and Jeffrey R. Schelling Departments of Medicine* and Physiology and Biophysics, Case School of Medicine and Kidney Disease Research Center, Rammelkamp Center for Research and Education, MetroHealth System Campus, Cleveland, Ohio J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 1880–1...