With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, and telephony). This computing utility, like all other four existing

1pPAa11. Optimal sound absorbing and manufacturable two-dimensional, hexagonal-like porous structure

The growth of the vocal tract (VT) is known to be non-uniform insofar as there are regional variations in anatomic maturation. This study presents quantitative anatomic data on the developing VT from 604 imaging studies (277 male; 327 female) between birth and 20 years. Data analyses include detailed assessment on the growth of the oral (anterior or horizontal) and pharyngeal (posterior or vertical) regions of the VT for both sexes. The oral region of the VT was segmented into lip-thickness, anteriorcavity-length, and orophayrngeal-width; and the pharyngeal region of the VT into posterior-cavity-length, and nasopharyngeallength. Findings from all variables/segments indicate differences in growth trend, rate and type (somatic versus neural) between males and females. However, it appears that prepubertal sex differences at specific age ranges are masked by overall growth rate differences between males and females. Comparing males versus females, using a limited age range of 60 months, unveiled prepubertal sexual dimorphism in the oral/horizontal region where differences appear more pronounced in the oropharyngeal-width segment. Such novel anatomic findings indicate one possible source for noted sex differences in formant frequencies before age 10, where there is no sexual dimorphism in VT length. During development from infancy to adulthood, vocal tract (VT) length increases more than twofold with growth from approximately 6 to 8 cm in infants to 15 to 18 cm in adult females and males respectively. Such growth has been characterized to be non-uniform insofar as the oral and pharyngeal portions of the VT vary in anatomic maturation. Fant 2,3 using radiographic

4pSC10. Speech articulator movements recorded from facing talkers using two electromag-netic articulometer systems simultaneously

Eurostat gave a general introduction to the scope and aims of the joint session STNE/MWG meeting and presented the draft agenda for adoption.

opened the meeting and welcomed all participants. It was noted that Kevern Cochrane, Director of the Resources Use and Management Division of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Secretariat to the Atlas, was unable to attend the opening of the meeting due to a conflicting engagement

2. Attendance & apologies for absence (Annex A) As per attached attendance sheet. 3. Notes of the 43rd meeting (distributed earlier) a. Confirmation The Board reviewed the minutes and they were approved. b. Review of allocated actions below with special mention to the following; 13/2013 – C

cancer, postoperative radiochemother-apy, prognostic factors. The study was presented in part at the

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Brief description of the proceedings, conclusions and recommendations of the 11th Meeting of the Subcommittee on Atomic, Molecular (A+M) and Plasma-Material Interaction