OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Compare outcomes among children with inner ear malformations and/or cochlear nerve deficiency (CND) who have received a cochlear implant (CI). STUDY DESIGN Individual retrospective cohort study from 1993 to 2010. METHODS A select cohort of 76 children was identified. Imaging characteristics, operative findings, complications, mapping parameters, and performance were as...

The presence of OH (1720 MHz) masers, and the absence of counterparts at 1665/1667 MHz has proved to be a clear diagnostic of shocked molecular gas associated with Galactic supernova remnants. This suggests that shocked molecular gas should be associated with the OH (1720 MHz) masers that have been detected in the circumnuclear disk (CND) and Sgr A East at the Galactic center. In order to test ...

In this paper, we present the ZenRobotics Recycler, a system that sorts construction and demolition (CND) waste by picking valuable objects from a conveyor belt using robotic hands. It is the first CND recycling system that reaches a useful purity of wood, stone, and metal without resorting to human sorters. We describe how we applied machine learning to solve some of the key problems such as r...

We compare three different models of clumpy gas disk and show that the Circumnuclear Disk (CND) in the Galactic Center and a putative, geometrically thick, obscuring torus are best explained by a collisional model consisting of quasi-stable, self-gravitating clouds. Kinetic energy of clouds is gained by mass inflow and dissipated in cloud collisions. The collisions give rise to a viscosity in a...

We take a fresh look at CD complexity, where CD t (x) is the smallest program that distinguishes x from all other strings in time t(jxj). We also look at a CND complexity, a new nondeterministic variant of CD complexity. We show several results relating time-bounded C, CD and CND complexity and their applications to a variety of questions in computational complexity theory including: Showing ho...

BACKGROUND Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) constitute a special population that may be at particularly high risk for substance use. The purpose of the current study was to estimate the utilization of specialized addiction treatment services (SATS) and the associated cost, as a part of the total cost of health care associated with FASD in Canada. METHODS The current stu...

We study “classical proofs as programs” paradigm in CallBy-Value (CBV) setting. Specifically, we show the CBV normalization for CND (Parigot 92) can be simulated by the cut-elimination procedure for LKQ (Danos-Joinet-Schellinx 93), namely the q-protocol. We use proof-term assignment system to prove this fact. The term calculus for CND we use follows Parigot’s λμ-calculus with new CBV normalizat...

A novel method is proposed using nanometer-sized diamond particles as detection probes for biolabeling. The advantages of nanodiamond's unique properties were demonstrated in its biocompatibility, nontoxicity, easily detected Raman signal, and intrinsic fluorescence from its natural defects without complicated pretreatments. Carboxylated nanodiamond's (cND's) penetration ability, noncytotoxicit...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to assess the safety and efficiency of operating microscope use by surgeons in thyroid surgery to reduce static neck flexion. METHODS A retrospective case review comparing thyroidectomies performed using an operating microscope to those using surgical loupes was done. Operative times and incidence of complications were compared between total thyroidectomy procedures don...

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive value of BRAF V600E mutation for the persistence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) after total thyroidectomy and routine central neck dissection. Patients and Methods We collect the clinicopathological data of 288 PTC patients with total thyroidectomy (TT) and routine central neck dissection (CND), and analyzed the relationship betw...