Usage data at a high-traffic web site can expose information about external events and surges in popularity that may not be accessible solely from analyses of content and link structure. We consider sites that are organized around a set of items available for purchase or download, consider, for example, an e-commerce site or collection of online research papers, and we study a simple indicator ...

Otitis externa is no longer viewed as an isolated disease of the ear canal, but is a syndrome that is often a reflection of underlying dermatological disease. Causes are classified as predisposing (increase the risk of otitis); primary (directly induce otitis), secondary (contribute to otitis only in an abnormal ear or in conjunction with predisposing factors) and perpetuating (result from infl...

We propose a dynamical gradient network approach to consider the synchronization in the Kuramoto model. Our scheme to adaptively adjust couplings is based on the dynamical gradient networks, where the number of links in each time interval is the same as the number of oscillators, but the links in different time intervals are also different. The gradient network in the (n+1)th time interval is d...

Background: Malignant otitis externa (MOE) is essentially an osteomyelitis of the temporal bone and surrounding soft tissue that can be life threatening. It is classically caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Objective: To evaluate recent clinical presentations of MOE at the authors' institution. Design: Retrospective review. Participants: Twenty patients (12 men), with a mean age of 65 years at d...

The feasibility of virtual otoscopy (VO) imaging was evaluated in five dogs with experimentally induced otitis media, two control dogs, and two canine patients with otitis media. VO images of the tympanic cavity and ossicles were generated with commercially available software using raw computed tomography (CT) data. Eight out of 10 ears inoculated with pathogen exhibited obvious clinical signs ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether perioperative complication rates are different between unilateral (ULS) versus single-stage bilateral (BLSS) total ear canal ablation-lateral bulla osteotomy (TECA-LBO) surgeries. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. ANIMALS Fifity-seven dogs (79 ears) undergoing TECA-LBO at a single institution over 14 years. METHODS Medical records of dogs undergoing TE...