From a Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institut de Recherche Experimentale et Clinique (IREC), Pole de Pneumologie, ORL & Dermatologie, Brussels, Belgium; b the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CHU Sart-Tilman, Liege, IGIGA Research Group, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; and c the Upper Airway Research Laboratory and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belg...

OBJECTIVE Intracerebroventricular administration of orphanin FQ/nociceptin (OFQ/N), the endogenous agonist ligand of the opioid receptor-like (ORL-1) receptor, decreases extracellular levels of dopamine and suppresses motor activity. The presence of the ORL-1 receptor on mesoaccumbal and nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons raises the possibility that an action along these pathways may be one mea...

An otorhinolaryngologist (ORL) or general practitioner diagnoses ear disease based on image information. However, practitioners refer patients to ORL for chronic because the of has high complexity, variety, and little difference between diseases. artificial intelligence-based approach is needed make it easier doctors diagnose diseases information, such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Thi...

Deep optical spectra of the high excitation planetary nebula NGC 1501 and its W04 central star are presented. A recombination line abundance analysis of the central star's emission-line spectrum yields He:C:O mass fractions of 0.36:0.48:0.16, similar to those of PG1159 stars. A detailed empirical analysis of the nebular collisionally excited line (CEL) and optical recombination line (ORL) spect...

This paper presents novel technique for recognizing faces. The proposed method uses hybrid feature extraction techniques such as Chi square and entropy are combined together. Feed forward and self-organizing neural network are used for classification. We evaluate proposed method using FACE94 and ORL database and achieved better performance. Keywords-Biometric; Chi square test; Entropy; FFNN; SOM.

The article analyzes the patients who have received a cochlear implant at "Prof. Dr. Dorin Hociota" Institute of Phonoaudiology and Functional ENT Surgery, Bucharest, over a period of 13 years, from the beginning of this program in the year 2000. It presents the types of devices used, the particularities of the patients, the surgical techniques and the outcome, critically analyzing the complica...

Minimally invasive surgery, developed during the last 15 years becomes a major field of surgical intervention. The patient benefits from little damage around the focus of surgery. Special skills of the surgeon are needed to work in narrow body cavities with little space for the endoscope and surgical tools. The surgeon’s navigation during surgery can be supported by modern visualisation techniq...

9 movement towards total CPU usage is diierent. In particular, there appears to be a sharp increase in CPU usage when the send buuer size becomes equal to the network buuer size. This occurs for both reliable and unreliable transmission. We have no rm explanation for this and investigations are continuing. Figure 5 shows the results for 4Kbyte network buuer sizes, the results are similar althou...

In this paper, we proposed the fusion of two projection based face recognition algorithms: local binary Patterns in DCT domain and singular value decomposition (SVD) characterized by its simplicity and efficiently. Standard databases ORL are used to test the experimental results which prove that proposed system achieves more accurate face recognition as compared to individual method.

INTRODUCTION This is the final article in a series describing the Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) Emergencies Boot Camp. Previous articles covered curriculum design and basic to more advanced emergency skills. This article describes how the course culminates in two learning stations addressing more complicated patient scenarios that also require judgment, communication, and teamwork in addition to te...