OBJECTIVES First, to establish the feasibility of the observer-based psychophysical procedure (OPP) in measuring sound detection in infant and toddler cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Second, to measure the psychometric function for detection (PFD) from individual subjects. Third, to determine whether reaction time (RT) provides information about the auditory sensitivity of young CI users. D...

Plant leaves are optically complex, which makes them difficult to image by light microscopy. Careful sample preparation is therefore required to enable researchers to maximize the information gained from advances in fluorescent protein labeling, cell dyes and innovations in microscope technologies and techniques. We have previously shown that mounting leaves in the non-toxic, non-fluorescent pe...

Transplantation of encapsulated islets in a bioartificial pancreas is a promising alternative to free islet cell therapy to avoid immunosuppressive regimens. However, hypoxia, which can induce a rapid loss of islets, is a major limiting factor. The efficiency of oxygen delivery in an in vitro model of bioartificial pancreas involving hypoxia and confined conditions has never been investigated. ...

This review aimed to critically evaluate the literature on the efficacy of biofeedback for functional anorectal disorders, rate these biofeedback applications according to established guidelines, and make recommendations for this field based on the literature. The Medline and PsychInfo databases were searched to obtain all papers published from 1975 to 2003 that included the terms "biofeedback"...

Abstract Long-term (2004–2020) studies showed yearly summer/autumn blooms in the NE Black Sea dominated by large (cell volume > 5000 ?m3) diatoms (Pseudosolenia calcar-avis and Proboscia alata). This phenomenon is characterized high (>250 W m?2 photosynthetically active radiation, PAR) insolation, low phosphorus concentrations (to analytical zero). These contained >100 chlo...

A completely randomised design experiment was conducted to determine if grouphoused grower-finisher pigs (43.9 to 95 kg) show differences in performance and nitrogen utilisation when provided with a single high lysine diet (11 g/kg) or with a mean lysine concentration of 9.5 g/kg, either as a single diet or as a series of two or four diets. Four hundred and forty pigs were assigned to four diet...

Introduction The rate and extent of leaf thickness and area Leaves which develop at elevated CO2 concentrations are development are important determinants of whole often thicker than those on ambient 2 plants. In a plant photosynthetic capacity. The interactive effects study of four Populus clones, Radoglou and Jarvis (1990) of photon flux density (PFD), nitrogen supply and CO 2 found increases...

Background Prior cross-sectional studies have revealed decreased macular perfusion density (PFD) and increased peripapillary PFD in Parkinson’s disease (PD). We assess longitudinal rate of change retinal microvascular structural parameters PD vs controls with normal cognition. Method Subjects were imaged using Zeiss Cirrus HD-5000 AngioPlex. Those confounding medical or ocular comorbidities exc...

Techniques are proposed to dramatically reduce the impact of quantization noise in fractional-N synthesizers, thereby improving the existing tradeoff between phase noise and bandwidth that exists in these systems. The key innovation is the introduction of new techniques to overcome nonidealities in a phase-frequency detector (PFD)/digital-to-analog converter (DAC) structure, which combines the ...