PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED Optical Society of America Spring Meeting, Denver, Colorado March 13-16, 1973 L. A. Hackel, D. G. Youmans, and S. Ezekiel, Micro-Angstrom Spectroscopy Physical Electronics Conference, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California March 26-28, 1973 R. E. Stickney, Spatial Distribution of Hydrogen De sorbed from Metal Surfaces 3rd International Symposium on Toroidal Plasma Confinement, Garching bei Munich March 26-30, 1973 B. Coppi, Fluctuations, Anomalous Transport, and Particle Scattering in Toroidal Plasmas Interagency Symposium on Research in Transportation Noise, Stanford University, Stanford, California March 28-30, 1973 U. Ingard, V. K. Singhal, and A. G. Galaitsis, Studies of Duct Liners and the Interaction of Sound and Flow in Ducts International Congress on Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas, sponsored by European Physical Society and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria April 1-7, 1973 A. Bers, Theory of Absolute and Convective Instabilities A. Bers, J. Kulp, and D. C. Watson, Symbolic Computer Calculations of Plasma Wave Interactions A. Bers, C. F. F. Karney, and J. Kulp, Parametric Downconversion from Lower-Hybrid Frequency Waves Conference of Signal Processing, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany April 4-6, 1973 C. Braccini and A. V. Oppenheim, Applications of Digital Frequency Warping to Unequal Bandwidth and Vernier Spectrum Analysis A. V. Oppenheim, Some Digital Signal Processing Activities at M. 1. T. Conference on Rule Ordering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana April 6-7, 1973 J. T. Jensen and Margaret Stong-Jensen, Ordering and Directionality of Iterative Rules IEEE International Symposium on Circuit Theory, Toronto, Canada April 9-11, 1973 R. E. Crochiere, Some Network Properties of Digital Filters xiv MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) 1973 Meeting of American Association of Anatomists, New York, New York April 9 - 12 , 1973 N. Y. S. Kiang, Auditory Signal Transmission in the Feline Brain Stem 85th Meeting, Acoustical Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts April 10-13, 1973 J. E. Berliner and N. 1. Durlach, A Perceptual-Anchor Model for Context Coding in Intensity Perception L. D. Braida, W. F. Kelley, and D. J. Callahan, A Laboratory Facility for Psychoacoustics with Computer Interaction H. S. Colburn, Comparison of Binaural-Interaction Models H. Duifhuis, Audibility of Harmonics in Periodic "White Noise" J. L. Goldstein, An Optimum Processor Theory for the Central Formation of the Pitch of Complex Tones A. J. M. Houtsma, Pitch Ambiguities of Harmonic Two-Tone Complexes A. W. F. Huggins, Temporally-Segmented Speech III: Does Intelligibility Depend on Duration or Speech-Content of the Speech Intervals? A. W. F. Huggins, Some Within- and Between-Word Timing Effects U. Ingard and V. K. Singhal, Upstream and Downstream Sound Radiation into a Moving Fluid U. Inga rd and V. K. Singhal, The Attenuation of Sound in Turbule nt Pipe Flow N. Y. S. Kiang and E. C. Moxon, Tails of Tuning Curves of Auditory-Nerve Fibers (invited paper for Bekesy Symposium) D. H. Klatt, Interaction between Two Factors That Influence Vowel Duration D. H. Klatt, Vowel Duration as a Function of the Syllabic Structure of a Word D. H. Klatt, Aspiration and Voice Onset Time in Word-Initial Consonant Clusters in English R. P. Lippmann, L. D. Braida, and N. 1. Durlach, The Effects of Payoffs on Sensitivity and Bias in Absolute Identification of Intensity E. C. Moxon, Mechanical Response to Electric Stimulation of the Cochlea C. M. Oman and L. S. Frishkopf, Dynamic Response of Freestanding Lateral Line Organs in Necturus maculosus W. M. Rabinowitz and J. L. Goldstein, Middle -Ear Transmission Change as Measured by Aural Combination Tone Phase Behavior W. M. Siebert, Ranke Revisited - a Simple Short-Wave Cochlear Model T. F. Weiss, M. J. Mulroy, and D. W. Altmann, Auditory Responses of Single Cells in the Inner Ear of the Alligator Lizard (invited paper for Bekesy Symposium) T. F. Weiss, M. J. Mulroy, and D. W. Altmann, Intracellular Responses to Acoustic Clicks in the Inner Ear of the Alligator Lizard xv MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) 54th Annual Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C. April 16-20, 1973 D. H. Staelin, F. T. Barath, A. H. Barrett, J. C. Blinn, N. E. Gaut, E. J. Johnston, K. Kunzi, W. B. Lenoir, W. Nordberg, R. Pettyjohn, R. K. L. Poon, P. W. Rosenkranz, and J. W. Waters, Preliminary Results from the Nimbus-5 Microwave Spectrometer Experiment J. W. Waters and D. H. Staelin, Remote Sensing of Stratospheric and Mesospheric Temperature by Microwave Radiometry Fifth Annual APL Conference, Toronto, Canada May 15 - 18, 1973 P. Penfield, Jr., Proposed Notation and Implementation for Derivatives in APL International Symposium on Meteorological Satellites, Paris, France May 21-24, 1973 D. H. Staelin, A. H. Barrett, K. F. Kunzi, W. B. Lenoir, R. L. Pettyjohn, R. K. L. Poon, J. W. Waters, F. T. Barath, J. C. Blinn, E. J. Johnston, P. W. Rosenkranz, N. E. Gaut, and W. Nordberg, Meteorological Measurements from Space with Passive Microwave Techniques IEEE/OSA Conference on Laser Engineering and Applications, Washington, D. C. May 30 - June 1,1973 M. A. Dobbels, E. M. Stolle, and S. Ezekiel, Closed-Loop, Real-Time, Holographic Interferometry JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 36-412, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139) J. P. A. Albuquerque, The Barankin Bound: (IEEE Trans. (IT)) A Geometric Interpretation J. Allen, Reading Machine s for the Blind: The Technical Problems and Methods Adopted for Their Solution (IEEE Trans. (AE)) B. Blesser, R. Shillman, C. Cox, T. Kuklinski, J. Ventura, and M. Eden, Character Recognition Based on Phenomenological Attributes (Visible Language) T. L. Bradley and R. E. Stickney, Spatial Distribution of H 2 De sorbed from Fe, Pt, Cu, Nb, and Stainless-Steel Surfaces (Surface Sci.) H. S. Colburn, Theory of Binaural Interaction Based on Auditory-Nerve Data. 1. General Strategy and Preliminary Results on Interaural Discrimination (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) B. Coppi and E. Minardi, Transport and Particle Scattering due to Toroidal Plasma Modes (Phys. Fluids) xvi JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued) B. Coppi and D. J. SigmaI', Collisional Resistivity in Low Aspect Ratio Tori (Phys. Fluids) M. Eden, J. E. Green, and A. Sun, Feasibility of Computer Screening of Blood Films for the Detection of Malarial Parasites (Bull. WHO) P. Elias, Efficient Storage and Retrieval by Content and Address of Simple Files (J. ACM) J. L. Goldstein, An Optimum Processor Theory for the Central Formation of the Pitch of Complex Tones (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) G. H. Granlund, The Use of Distribution Functions to Describe Integrated Density Profiles of Human Chromosomes (J. Theor. BioI.) Christina Graves, J. J. Katz, Y. Nishiyama, S. Soames, R. Stecker, and P. Tovey, Tacit Knowledge (J. Philos.) R. D. Hall and B. L. Hicks, Two Somatic Eyelid Reflexes in the Albino Rat (PhysioI. and Behavior) R. D. Hall, Some Properties of Conditioned and Unconditioned Eyelid Reflexes in the Albino Rat (Behavior Re search Methods and Instrumentation) J. J. Katz, On Defining Presupposition (Linguistic Inquiry) P. Kiparsky, The Role of Linguistics in a Theory of Poe (Daedalus) K. Y. Lo and B. F. Burke, H20 Sources in Sharpless HI! Regions Astrophys. (Research Notes)) (Astron. Paula Menyuk, Un modele de production du langage: Donnees fournies par les enfants ayant ou n'ayant pas de troubles de la parole (Bulletin de Psychologie) P. C. Myers, Observations of OH and H 2 CO toward Galactic Dust Clouds (Abstract) (Astrophys. J. Supplement) E. Oktay and J. E. Robinson, Ion Ternperature and Steady-State Characteristics of a Low Density Magnetoplasma Column (Plasma Phys.) J. W. Waters, Ground-Based Measurement of Millimeter-Wavelength Emission by Upper Stratospheric O (Nature) 2 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION E. V. George and C. K. Rhodes, Kinetic Model of Ultraviolet Inversion in High Pressure Rare Gas Plasmas (Appl. Phys. Letters) W. A. Stiehl and P. W. Hoff, Measurement of the Spectrum of a Helical TEA CO 2 Laser (AppI. Phys. Letters) xvii SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS R. E. Crochiere, Some Networks Properties of Digital Filters (Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuit Theory, Toronto, Canada, April 9 -11, 1973), pp. 146-148 P. Kiparsky, Metrics and Morphophonemics in the Rigveda, in M. K. Brame (Ed.), Contributions to Generative Phonology (University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1972), pp. 171-200 J. R. Ross, A Reanalysis of English Word Stress, in M. K. Brame (Ed.), Contributions to Generative Phonology (University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1972), pp. 229-323 M. G. R. Thomson, A Spherical-Aberration Corrector Using Electron-Transparent Conducting Foils (Proc. Electron Microscopy Society of America 31 st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 14-17, 1973) J. W. Waters and D. H. Staelin, Remote Sensing of Stratospheric and Mesospheric Temperature by Microwave Radiometry (Abstract) (Proc. 54th Annual Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., April 16-20, 1973) xviii