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Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. She obtained her B.A. from Oxford University, and her Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego. Her work primarily involves perception and memory for sounds, particularly music. Deutsch has been elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), the American Psychological Society (APS), and the American Psychological Association (APA). She has served as Governor of the AES, as Chair of the Section on Psychology of the AAAS, as President of Division 10 of the APA, and as Chair of the SEP. She was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts by the APA in 2004, and is the recipient of the Gustav Theodor Fechner Award from the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in 2008.
Nicholas J. Wade is Professor of Visual Psychology at the University of Dundee. He obtained his B.Sc. from Edinburgh University and his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck- Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen, he took a post at Dundee, where he has remained. His research is con- cerned with binocular vision, models of space and motion perception, and the history of vision research. He has pub- lished books in these areas as well as on the interplay between visual science and visual art. He is also an exhibiting artist and combines his interest in the history of science and art by producing “perceptual portraits” of figures in his field. He has been a member of the editorial board of Psychological Research and the British Journal of Psychology and presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences and Perception. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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43.40.Tm GAME RACQUET WITH SEPARATE HEAD AND HANDLE PORTIONS FOR REDUCING VIBRATION
William D. Severa et al., assignors to
Wilson Sporting Goods Company
20 November 2007 (Class 473/536); filed 6 January 2005
Shock on a typical tennis racquet can last about 5 ms and vibration can last about 1000 ms after ball impact. This can cause physical problems such as tendonitis, or tennis elbow. A vibration absorbing material 66, which can be urethane, nat- ural rubber, butyl rubber, or synthetic rubber, is placed between the handle por- tion 46 and the head portion 45 of racquet 44.—Neil A. Shaw
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