background: cervical cancer is the most prevalent tumor in developing countries and the second most frequent cancer among female population worldwide. specific human papillomaviruses and, most notably, hpv types 16 and 18 are recognized as being caus-ally associated with cervical carcinomas. the early hpv type 16 genes, e6 and e7, di-rectly participate in the in vitro transformation of primary ...

introduction: preterm birth is a risk factor for a number of conditions that requires comprehensive examination. our study was designed to investigate the impact of preterm birth on the processing of auditory stimuli and brain structures at the brainstem level at a preschool age.   materials and methods: an auditory brainstem response (abr) test was performed with low rates of stimuli in 60 chi...

Speech-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) and speech recognition measures were evaluated in children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) and normal hearing (NH). There were significant differences between the two hearing groups for several components of the response in quiet and in noise. Children with UHL performed worse than children with NH on all speech recognition measures in quiet ...

The following objectives of the study were formulated: i) to investigate differences in measured signal to noise ratios while recording speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (cABR) and cortical late latency response (LLR) in low and high acceptable noise level (ANL) groups; and ii) to compare peak to peak amplitude of cABR (V-A) and LLR (N1-P2) in low and high ANL groups. A total of 23 norm...

BACKGROUND Violence against women in families is the most common form of violence against them. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its effects on married women of Ilam. METHODS In this descriptive-sectional research, 334 married women referred to medical health centers in Ilam were selected to participate using a random sampling method. After ob...

BACKGROUND The psychological functioning of living donor (LD) and deceased donor (DD) recipients are important factors for emotional adjustment to transplantation. This study investigated differences in medical, sociodemographic and emotional factors between these two groups. METHODS A total of 241 kidney transplant recipients (68 LD, 173 DD) completed questionnaires on emotional and behaviou...

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a test widely used to assess the integrity of the brain stem. Although it is considered to be an auditory-evoked potential that is influenced by the physical characteristics of the stimulus, such as rate, polarity and type of stimulus, it may also be influenced by the change in several parameters. The use of anesthetics may adversely influence the value ...

This version of What is and what will be has images distributed throughout the text as visual poetry. The images were mostly taken at Esalen Institute near Big Sur California and at my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains near San Jose California. The dolphin pictures and a few others were taken in Hawaii. The images in this version are formatted at 72 dots per inch. This is suitable for viewing on...

The rostral brainstem receives both "bottom-up" input from the ascending auditory system and "top-down" descending corticofugal connections. Speech information passing through the inferior colliculus of elderly listeners reflects the periodicity envelope of a speech syllable. This information arguably also reflects a composite of temporal-fine-structure (TFS) information from the higher frequen...

We recorded the auditory brainstem response (ABR) in four dolphins (Tursiops truncatus and Delphinus delphis). The ABR evoked by clicks consists of seven waves within 10 msec; two waves often contain dual peaks. The main waves can be identified with those of humans and laboratory mammals; in spite of a much longer path, the latencies of the peaks are almost identical to those of the rat. The do...