Reduced cochlear blood flow (CBF) has been implicated in various pathologies of the inner ear, including sudden deafness, noise-induced hearing loss and Meniere's disease. Thus the aim of some current therapeutic regimens to treat these conditions is to increase CBF and thereby improve oxygenation of the inner ear tissues. Most of the vasodilating agents in clinical use, however, do not have sp...

1.1. Setup. In this talk k is a field of characteristic 0. Let (W,S) be a Coxeter group with |S| = n < ∞. Also we let V = ∑ s∈S kes be the reflection representation of W , and R = k[V ]. R is a graded algebra with V ∗ in degree 2. We abbreviate M ⊗R N = MN for a right R-module M and a left R-module N . We let {αs}s∈S be the dual basis of {es}s∈S , which can be considered as elements in V ∗ ⊂ R....

Grand Rapids, Michigan RUPTURE OF A PAPILLARY MUSCLE OF the heart is a rarely recorded event. Most cases arc secondary to myocardial infarction. We recently encountered a case in which the mptum was secondary to trauma, and we fed that it is worthy of presentation. If the diagnosis can be made rapidly, this is a potentially comctablc lesion. CASE REPOPT A 22-year-old white man was admitted to B...

C around the world are researching, developing and demonstrating disposal of long-lived radioactive waste in engineered repositories located in suitable deep underground geological formations as the reference solution to protect present and future generations and the environment. In some countries, actual implementation of geological disposal projects is only a few years away. Countries are als...

The use of geological barriers is widely studied in the context hazardous waste management and pollution events. In near field sources, endure disturbances with concomitant release chemicals organic or saline plumes. this study, we investigate effect compounds on retention radionuclides contact a sedimentary rock, namely Callovo-Oxfordian clay rock (East Paris Basin). Eu(III), Th(IV), U(VI), wa...

On-line learning algorithms are increasingly adopted as the key solution to modern learning applications with very large data sets of several hundred million or billion points. These algorithms process one sample at a time with an update per iteration that is often computationally cheap and easy to implement. As a result, they are substantially more efficient both in time and space than standar...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to examine the implications of the pressure-derived collateral flow index (CFIp) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). BACKGROUND Higher CFIp is associated with less severe myocardial ischemia during angioplasty in the non-infarcted heart. It remains unknown whether CFIp also identifies collateral function in AMI patients with and without no-reflow phenom...

Tissue formation around the electrode array of a cochlear implant has been suggested to influence preservation of residual hearing as well as electrical hearing performance of implanted subjects. Further, inhomogeneity in the electrical properties of the scala tympani shape the electrical field and affect current spread. Intracochlear trauma due to electrode insertion and the insertion site its...

The field of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) has gained an important part of the interest of researchers and become very popular in last few years. MANETs can operate without fixed infrastructure and can survive rapid changes in the network topology. They can be studied formally as graphs in which the set of edges varies in time. The main method for evaluating the performance of MANETs is simul...

Clustering is an effective topology approach in wireless sensor network, which can increase network lifetime and scalability. Either Node Mobility or Channel fading has a negative impact on various clustering protocol. In case of Node Mobility when all sensor nodes are mobile the current nearest cluster head may be the farthest one for the sensor node when message transmission phase starts. In ...