Antimicrobial resistance is considered an important threat to global health and has recently attracted significant attention from the public. In this study, concentrations size distribution characteristics of culturable airborne total bacteria (TB) four antibiotic-resistant (tetracycline-resistant (TRB), ciprofloxacin-resistant (CRB), erythromycin-resistant (ERB), ampicillin-resistant (ARB)) we...

This study describes a new noise suppression scheme for hearing aid applications based on the auditory masking threshold (AMT) in conjunction with a modified generalized minimummean square error estimator (GMMSE) for individual subjects with hearing loss. The representation of cochlear frequency resolution is achieved in terms of auditory filter equivalent rectangular bandwidths (ERBs). Estimat...

The molecular genetics of melanoma is little understood and has concentrated largely on DNA analyses. We have examined mRNA levels of 21 different oncogenes, antioncogenes, growth factors and proteases in cultured melanocytes and 17 melanoma cell lines. C-mel, c-erb-B2, c-myc, c-src-1, p53, platelet derived growth factor A chain, gro, transforming growth factor alpha, epidermal growth factor re...

Estrogen is a hormone critical in the development, normal physiology and pathophysiology1 of numerous human tissues2. The effects of estrogen have traditionally been solely ascribed to estrogen receptor a (ERa) and more recently ERb, members of the soluble, nuclear ligand–activated family of transcription factors3. We have recently shown that the seventransmembrane G protein–coupled receptor GP...

In this paper we present a features extractor for speech recognition. The proposed features extraction method based on auditory filter modelling. The latter uses a Gammachirp Filterbank (GcFB), where their center frequencies are selected according to one of the three scales: the ERB-rate scale, the MEL scale or the BARK scale. The performance of the proposed features is evaluated, in the contex...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a frequent and potentially traumatic complication in diabetic individuals. The chronic nature of diabetes and its associated hyperglycemic episodes initiate a complex and inter-related series of metabolic and vascular insults that contribute to the polygenic etiology of DPN. One contributing factor in DPN is an altered neurotrophism that results from chan...

OBJECTIVE To investigate prognostic significance of and correlations between HER1 (EGFR), HER2 (c-erb-B2), HER3 (c-erb-B3), HER4 (c-erb-B4), and phosphorylated Akt (P-Akt) in patients treated with radiation for cervical carcinoma. METHODS Fifty-five patients with stages I-IVA cervical carcinoma were treated with definitive radiotherapy. Tumor expression of each biomarker was quantitatively sc...