Recent work has demonstrated that auditory filters recover temporal-envelope cues from speech fine structure when the former were removed by filtering or distortion. This study extended this work by assessing the contribution of recovered envelope cues to consonant perception as a function of the analysis bandwidth, when vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) stimuli were processed in order to keep their ...

1 2 Autophagy during proliferation and encystation in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba 3 invadens 4 Karina Picazarri, Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui, and Tomoyoshi Nozaki* 5 Department of Parasitology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, 6 Gunma 371-851, Japan 7 8 *Corresponding author: Tomoyoshi Nozaki Mailing address: Department of Parasitology, 9 Gunma University Graduate School of...

DESPITE advances in radiation technology it is still not possible to prevent serious gastrointestinal or genitourinary complications after radiotherapy. The reported incidence of gastrointestinal complications following pelvic irradiation ranges from two to 17 per cent.'23 Although rectovaginal fistulae account for less than two per cent of these complications,4 they may present a particularly ...

Few data are available on the association between the prolonged heart rate-adjusted QT (QTc) interval and high blood pressure in elderly individuals, particularly in subjects over 80 years old. The aim of the present study was to determine the association between the QTc interval and blood pressure in 80-year-old subjects. This study was part of the 8020 Data Bank Survey, which was designed to ...

AIMS To assess whether there is a relationship between delay in retinopathy screening after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and level of retinopathy detected. METHODS Patients were referred from 88 primary care practices to an English National Health Service diabetic eye screening programme. Data for screened patients were extracted from the primary care databases using semi-automated data colle...

Soil was treated with "C-ring-labeled fluometuron [N,N-dimethyl-N'[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyll urea] (0.516 and 5.16 pmol gl), air-dried, and stored for 6 months at 5 "C. The 14C was then extracted from soil with methanol by conventional extraction (twice with MeOH/H20 8020 v/v; 2:l extract/soil v/w) and with CO2 using a supercritical fluid extractor. Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method ...

Past studies on respirator fit or performance have mostly been done for Whites or male subjects, and little attention has been paid to minorities and Asians. To fill this gap, this study was designed to provide facial anthropometric data for Koreans and to analyze the association between facial dimensions and respirator fit factors for three brands of quarter-mask respirators, two domestic and ...

Dung beetles are a species group highly recognized for their sensitivity to anthropogenically induced change. There few studies of the dung beetle communities found in Afromontane forests despite these forming part global hotspot biodiversity. We used comparisons diversity investigate effect habitat and altitude on composition Scarabaeidae six types identified indicator associated with each for...