Although tone-bursts have been commonly used in auditory brainstem response (ABR) evaluations for many years, national standards describing normal calibration values have not been established. This study was designed to gather normative threshold data to establish a physical reference for tone-burst stimuli that can be reproduced across clinics and laboratories. More specifically, we obtained n...

The purpose of this study was to test emotional responses during sprint intervals performed on a level, down and up surface. Fifty trained participants performed a maximal effort during a 60-m sprint and 10 repetitions of 60 m running sprints on a level, down and up surface on a 5.9% slope. Running speeds, emotional responses and heart rate were measured. Self-selected speeds were correlated wi...

This paper describes a robust control design for automatic steering of passenger cars. Previous studies 1, 2] showed that reliable automatic driving at highway speed may not be achieved under practical conditions with look-down reference systems which use only one sensor at the front bumper to measure the lateral displacement of the vehicle from the lane reference. An additional lateral displac...

It has previously been shown that at least one species of fish (the American shad) in the order clupeiforms (herrings, shads, and relatives) is able to detect sounds up to 180 kHz. However, it has not been clear whether other members of this order are also able to detect ultrasound. It is now demonstrated, using auditory brainstem response (ABR), that at least one additional species, the gulf m...

OBJECTIVE To determine the causes of medical errors, the emotional and behavioral response of pediatric medicine residents to their medical errors and to determine their behavior change affecting their future training. METHODS One hundred thirty postgraduate residents were included in the study. Residents were asked to complete questionnaire about their errors and responses to their errors in...

This article describes some of the factors relevant to the establishment of a universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) program. First, the difficulty in providing precise estimates of test sensitivity and specificity are reviewed. This section is followed by hypothetical estimates of overall programmatic costs, first for a fixed number of babies to be screened and then as a function of the nu...

In the first portion of this study, the effects of two levels of contralateral masking on the auditory brainstem response (ABR) were investigated in 10 normal-hearing subjects. No significant changes were observed in the mean latency-intensity functions or the mean amplitude-intensity functions of this group of subjects when noise of various levels was added to the nontest ear. In the second po...

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 child...

IfH is a Hopf algebra whose square of the antipode is the identity, v ∈ L(V )⊗H is a corepresentation, and π : H → L(W ) is a representation, then u = (id ⊗ π)v satisfies the equation (t ⊗ id)u = ((t ⊗ id)u) of the vertex models for subfactors. A universal construction shows that any solution u of this equation arises in this way. A more elaborate construction shows that there exists a “minimal...