The Open's guidelines allow the tournament referee to halt
play at outdoor venues and close the roofs of the main arena when the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature — a composite figure that accounts for factors such as humidity and wind
speed — reaches a
certain level.
Rather than
playing recordings for healthy babies, Partanen sees potential treatments for children
at risk for dyslexia or auditory processing disorders, if hearing
certain sounds in pregnancy turns out to
speed up language learning — «but that's a big if.»