Human listeners can perceive speech signals in a voicemodulated ultrasonic carrier from a bone-conduction stimulator even for sensorineural hearing loss patients. Considering this fact, we have developed a bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid (BCUHA). However, there remains considerable scope for improvement, particularly in terms of sound quality. Voice-modulated BCU is accompanied by a stron...

OBJECTIVES The absorption of commonly used ferrous iron salts from intestinal segments at neutral to slightly alkaline pH is low, mainly because soluble ferrous iron is easily oxidized to poorly soluble ferric iron and ferrous iron but not ferric iron is carried by the divalent metal transporter DMT-1. Moreover, ferrous iron frequently causes gastrointestinal side effects. In iron(III)-hydroxid...

background: available drugs are not able to eradicate intracellular viral dna in patients with hepatitis b virus (hbv) infections. hbsag vaccine could induce immunity and subsequently eradicate hepatitis b virus in proportions of these patients. our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of hbsag as a mode of therapy in inactive carriers. materials and methods: forty two consecutive patients of inact...

background and objectives: neisseria meningitidis is transmitted from person-to-person. thus, close contact with a healthy carrier can facilitate the spread of the bacteria and lead to life-threatening meningococcal disease. the aim of this study was to identify oropharyngeal carriers of n. meningitidis in volunteers preparing for military service before vaccination. materials and methods: in a...

background: it is estimated that about 370 million people are chronic carriers of hbv worldwide. apparently 3% of iranian populations are chronic carriers of this virus. we aimed to evaluate the viral dna in biological fluids of chronic hepatitis patients compared to a control group. methods: the current case-control study was designed to evaluate the viral dna in biological fluids of 70 chroni...

there is evidence indicating that pomegranate juice contains many of the essential properties necessary to retain cell viability and cell proliferation. these properties indicate that pomegranate juice is a suitable storage medium for avulsed teeth. however, this idea has not yet been tested. in this study, the capacity of pomegranate juice (pj) as a storage medium for retaining avulsed teeth w...

A PVC membrane Ni(II) ion selective electrode has been constructed using (1E,2E)-bis(2-aminophenyl)N'1,N'2-dihydroxyethanebis as membrane carrier. The electrode exhibited a goodpotentiometric response for Ni(II) over a wide concentration range 1.0×10-4 to 1.0×10-1M with aslope of 29.4±0.5 mV/decade a and a working pH range of 6.5-9.0. It had a fast response time of≤20s. The best performance was...

This paper proposed a simplified modeling approach for power quality (PQ) assessment of Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP) systems supplied by the two-level, neutral-point-clamped three-level, and cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverter VFD topologies. The switching function models their analytical expressions are to understand how they can create high-frequency components that might excite r...

Cobalt has great biological effects on human beings and also other living organisms, hence its determination is very important. In this regard, a novel coated graphite electrode was designed for determination of Co2+ ions by exploiting 6-chloro-11- azabenzo[a]phenothiazin-5-one as a neutral ion carrier, for the first time. The foremost function was witnessed from the membrane composition of PVC...

Spectroscopic studies of the SF6- and c-C4F8- anions are reported to provide experimental benchmarks for theoretical predictions of their structures and electron binding energies. The photoelectron spectrum of SF6- is dominated by a long progression in the S-F stretching mode, with an envelope consistent with theoretical predictions that the anion preserves the Oh symmetry of the neutral, but h...