AIM To study the effects of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) on the expressions of gentamicin ototoxicity in guinea pigs. METHODS The auditory function of pigmented guinea pigs was examined using auditory brainstem response (ABR), cochlea microphonic potential (CM), and action potential of auditory nerve (AP). RESULTS In animals injected gentamicin (80 mg.kg-1.d-1, i.m.), ABR threshold be...

The environmental impacts of producing asphalt mixtures with different percentages of asphalt binder replacement (ABR) are assessed using the technique of life cycle assessment (LCA). In this paper, only the material production phase of the pavement life cycle is considered. To improve the quality of the LCA, a regionalized life cycle inventory (LCI) database for the Northern Illinois region is...

BACKGROUND Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (RCDI) is associated with repeated antibiotic treatment and the enhanced growth of antibiotic-resistant microbes. This study tested the hypothesis that patients with RCDI would harbor large numbers of antibiotic-resistant microbes and that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) would reduce the number of antibiotic-resistant genes. METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE The vestibular implant seems feasible as a clinically useful device in the near future. However, hearing preservation during intralabyrinthine implantation remains a challenge. It should be preserved to be able to treat patients with bilateral vestibulopathy and (partially) intact hearing. This case study investigated the feasibility of hearing preservation during the acute phase afte...

A novel concept in available bit rate (ABR) service model as de ned by the ATM Forum is the minimum cell rate (MCR) support for each ABR virtual connection. In this paper, we present a fundamental study of rate allocation policies with MCR guarantee. In particular, we de ne three network bandwidth allocation policies that guarantee MCR requirements. For each policy, we present a centralized alg...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a noninvasive measurement of a stimulus-locked, synchronous electrical event. ABR provides information concerning the functional integrity of brainstem nuclei. Age is a key factor in the interpretation of ABR peak latency among different age groups. Progressively with time it follows a "maturation pattern" during which latencies dec...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Analysis of auditory brainstem response (ABR) in very preterm infants can be difficult owing to the poor detectability of the various components of the ABR. We evaluated the ABR morphology and tried to extend the current assessment system. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS We included 28 preterm very low birth weight infants admitted to the neonatal intens...

We extend our earlier studies of bu er requirements of TCP over ABR [10, 11, 12] in two directions. First, we study the performance of TCP over ABR in an ATM backbone. On the backbone, the TCP queues are at the edge router and not inside the ATM network. The router requires bu er equal to the sum of the receiver window sizes of the participating TCP connections. Second, we introduce various pat...