Abstract: A comprehensive, web-based, authorship workflow management system serves as a central hub that electronically links authors of research articles with a plurality of conventional authorship partnering entities, such as funding agencies, publishers, licensing partners, text editors, peer reviewers and the like. In use, the workflow management system facilitates the advancement of a research article from conception to post-publication by, among other things, streamlining the process in which an author obtains a financial grant for a designated project, providing enhanced tools for conducting research and drafting a corresponding research article, submitting publication requests to a plurality of publishers in a prioritized, cascading fashion, and efficiently processing any fees to be collected on behalf of designated entities.

Abstract: A multimedia carousel for use in video conferencing and multimedia presentation applications is disclosed. The multimedia carousel includes a cube-shaped media unit rotatably disposed on a stationary base. Each of the four outwardly facing sides of the media unit is equipped with an active color matrix display, a voice-activated charge coupled device ("CCD") camera and a microphone. A single high fidelity speaker is disposed on the top side surface of the cube for producing high quality audio output.

Abstract: A keyboard having a base and first and second demi-boards, which demi-boards include respective first and second key arrays. The first demi-board is supported in the base, and the second demi-board is supported in a variable elevation relative to the base. The elevation of the second demi-board may be selectively varied between a first elevation in which the first and second key arrays are substantially even relative to one another and a second elevation in which the first and second key arrays are substantially offset relative to one another. The second key array is operative in a first function mode when in the first elevation, and in a second function mode when in the second elevation. In one aspect, the second key array comprises first and second linked key rows, the second key row being moveable relative to the first key row so that the first and second key rows may be vertically aligned.

Abstract: A system which provides a means for reproducing stereophonic prerecorded sound which greatly improves the quality of the reproduced sound which the listener hears is disclosed. The sounds reproduced through the system of the present invention closely emulate the sounds as originally generated by the sound source, particularly with regard to the locations of the sound sources relative to one another.Through the method and apparatus of the present invention, the sounds emanating from the sound transducers, which comprise sound waves travelling through air, are transformed on a sound-receiving surface of a sympathetically vibratable material or "sound screen" into surface forced bending waves within the material which travel along the surface towards one another.