Audible nasal emission (ANE) is a common speech distortion associated with cleft palate or velopharyngeal dysfunction. This study examined the validity and reliability of listener perceptual judgments of ANE using interval scaling and magnitude estimation techniques. Speech samples were collected from 6 adolescents with a history of cleft palate with ANE during speech. Occurrences of ANE in speech samples were identified using visual and auditory inspection. Using an acoustic modification technique, samples were digitally modified to selectively amplify perceived occurrences of ANE +5, +10, and-96dB, to create three stimulus conditions. The original recording of the speech samples served as a control condition. Thirty-one adult listeners performed rating tasks in which they judged the severity of ANE in the speech samples using interval scaling and magnitude estimation without a modulus. Acoustic analysis of ANE was performed using long-term spectral analysis. Statistical analyses included ANOVA, regression and curve-fitting methods according to the procedures of Stevens (1975). Results revealed that magnitude estimation ratings demonstrated stronger evidence of validity and reliability than interval scaling. The curvilinear relationship found between the sets of ratings suggests that ANE is a prothetic or ratio-level perceptual continua that should be scaled using magnitude estimation or other ratio-based methods. In addition, a new model of factors associated with listener perceptions of ANE is supported by evidence that the relative intensity of ANE, the number of occurrences of ANE, and specific acoustic characteristics associated with ANE were all significant predictors of listeners ’ perceptual judgments of the severity of ANE. With more valid and reliable listener perceptual judgments of ANE, clinicians and researchers can make more accurate clinical diagnoses, measure pre- and post-treatment changes in speech, and compare speech outcomes across studies of persons with cleft palate.

(NHL) are a heterogenous group of disorders characterised by ma-lignant proliferation of lymphoid cells. The cellular origin is rela-tively well established with sub-types corresponding to the various stages of lymphocyte diVerentia-tion. The term encompasses a hotchpotch of conditions with very diVerent morphological appear-ance, behaviour and clinical out-come. NHL comprise 2.4 % of all cancers, with incidence increasing with age. The commonest presen-tation is with progressive lym-phadenopathy, though extranodal manifestations are present in a significant proportion. The clini-cal behaviour ranges from a be-nign, indolent course to rapidly progressive disease; prognosis varies from weeks to many years. Treatment is correspondingly di-verse, from ‘watchful waiting ’ to high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow stem cell transplan-tation. Cure is possible in an increasing number of patients and much interest currently lies in identifying patients with high-risk disease necessitating the use of intensive treatment regimens.

The Bostrichidae of the Maltese Islands are reviewed. Ten species are recorded with certainty from this Archipelago, of which 6 namely, Trogoxylon impressum (Comolli, 1837), Amphicerus bimaculatus (A.G. Olivier, 1790), Heterobostrychus aequalis (Waterhouse, 1884), Sinoxylon unidentatum (Fabricius, 1801),

Methodist University is where one must go to see this remarkable show, the most comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art ever undertaken in the U.S. It is open from January 25 to May 17, 2009, and features more than 400 objects, spanning the whole chronolog-ical range of Etruscan history from the 9th through 2nd centuries B.C., with objects from the Iron Age Villanovan period to the late Hellenistic. The exhibit draws primarily from the Florence Archaeological Museum, which houses mostly material from northern Etruscan cities, but includes important pieces from other regional Italian museums and private collec-tions, few of which have ever before traveled to the U.S. As Jenifer Neils says in her review of the exhibit cata-logue, “It is the most important show of Etruscan material ever mounted in this hemisphere, and it behooves everyone interested in the classical past to see it before it returns to Italy in May.”1 Featured in the exhibit is the 29-foot-long Talamone pediment, which depicts a crucial scene from the Seven against Thebes illustrating the power of the gods. Also included in the exhibit is fas-cinating material from Chiusi, the city of Porsenna: the life size funerary stat-ue known as the “Mater Matuta, ” sever-al of the enigmatic “Canopic ” urns, and

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and In-Use tracks of the conference and offers an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. These proceedings represent the collection of abstracts corresponding to the posters and demos presented at ISWC 2013. Technical posters report on work in progress or completed Semantic Web software systems, while demonstrations showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies. In total, there were 104 submissions, of which we accepted 45 demonstrations and 27 posters. We thank the authors of all submissions for their contribution to the program of ISWC 2013.

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Because infants are the most vulnerable members of a community, their deaths – and the resulting infant mortality rate (IMR) – are said to signal more fundamental problems that are likely to affect the general health of a community. However, a focus on proximate-and intermediate-level risk factors in epidemiological analyses presents a decontextualized picture and ignores the role of larger forces on health, disease, and illness. In response to this trend, this project will contribute to a revitalization of the use of infant mortality as an index of larger social problems by tempering statistical analyses with critical reflection regarding the effects of the liminal position of Malta within the British imperial system, prior to the Second World War. In addition, by bringing together several analytic approaches which often proceed in parallel, rather than in dialogue – historical epidemiology, social history, and the analysis of colonial discourse – this dissertation highlights the problematics of knowledge production at both the theoretical and methodological level. As a result, my work is not just about Malta, one moment in history, the calculation of infant mortality rates, or the disentanglement of

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