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Right Turns

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In the course of my lifetime, I have made many bad decisions and a few good ones; some without further consequences, others with lasting results. Here I want to focus on the good decisions—the Right Turns—that have had major impacts on my life.

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Schroeder, M.R. (2015). Right Turns. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_14

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