Introduction: To describe the underlay tympanoplasty technique using an acellular dermal graft(AlloDerm) for tympanic membrane (TM) reconstruction in a guinea pig model and to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique using AlloDerm tissue harvested from the prepuce as a source of tissue for future grafting in human TM reconstruction.   Materials and Methods: The prepuce was divided during c...

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is both a member of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily and a Cl(-)-selective ion channel. We investigated the permeation pathway of human CFTR with measurements on conduction and open-channel blockade by diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid (DPC). We used site-directed mutagenesis and oocyte expression to locate residues in transmembra...

PURPOSE To evaluate a porcine anterior chamber perfusion model and to test the transferability of data obtained with this model to the human system. METHODS Porcine eyes were obtained from a local abattoir and processed within 2 hours after death. Anterior chambers of 42 pairs of eyes were dissected with removal of lens, vitreous, iris, and ciliary processes and perfused for 72 (40 pairs) or ...

Transactional memory (TM) is an easy-using parallel programming model that avoids common problems associated with conventional locking techniques. Several researchers have proposed alternative hardware and software TM implementations. However, few ones focus on formal reasoning about programs using TM system. In this paper, we propose a framework at assembly level for reasoning about concurrent...

A widely used bulk model of the atmospheric boundary layer (BL) was proposed by Troen and Mahrt (1986) (hereinafter TM). The TM parameterization scheme was conceived for use in models where only a coarse resolution in the BL can be achieved (e.g. climate models and weather prediction models up to the mesoscale). Nevertheless, this parameterization scheme is still widely adopted in high resoluti...

Tetrathiomolybdate (TM), a potent copper-chelating drug, was initially developed for the treatment of Wilson's disease. Our working hypothesis is that the fibrotic pathway is copper-dependent. Because biliary excretion is the major pathway for copper elimination, a bile duct ligation (BDL) mouse model was used to test the potential protective effects of TM. TM was given in a daily dose of 0.9 m...

Objective: Instead of the linear model (LM), time intervals can be represented by a twodimensional (2D) model, which is called the triangular model (TM). Although the TM has been introduced for decades and applied in some areas, there still a lack of empirical studies on its usability. To fill this gap, this study aims to evaluate how people performwhen using the TM to answer questions on time ...

Magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and muon spin relaxation ($\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$) measurements have been performed on a synthesized three-dimensional sandglass-type lattice ${\mathrm{Tm}}_{3}{\mathrm{SbO}}_{7}$, where two inequivalent sets of non-Kramers ${\mathrm{Tm}}^{3+}$ ions (${\mathrm{Tm}}_{1}^{3+}$ ${\mathrm{Tm}}_{2}^{3+})$ show crystal electrical field effect at different...

This paper addresses automatic speech recognition (ASR) for multilingual audio contents, such as international conference recordings and broadcast news. For handling such contents efficiently, a simultaneous ASR is promising. Conventionally, ASR has been performed independently, namely, language by language, although multilingual speech, which consists of utterances in several languages represe...