Abstract Introduction Usher syndrome is a common cause of deaf-blindness characterised by progressive visual loss with congenital (types 1 and 2) or adult-onset (type 3) sensorineural hearing loss. Cochlear implantation one few effective options to enable patient access useful sound. Auditory rehabilitation after cochlear may be limited deterioration retinal function. Our objective was evaluate...

College campus tobacco-free policies are an emerging trend. Between September 2013 and May 2014, we surveyed 1309 college students at 8 public 4-year institutions across California with a range of policies (smoke-free indoors only, designated outdoor smoking areas, smoke-free, and tobacco-free). Stronger policies were associated with fewer students reporting exposure to secondhand smoke or seei...

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Medium-scale land cover maps are traditionally created on the basis of a single cloud-free satellite scene, leaving information present in other scenes unused. Using 1309 field observations and 20 cloudand error-affected Landsat scenes covering Zanzibar Island, this study demonstrates that the use of multiple scenes can both allow complete coverage of the study area in the absence of cloud-free...

Four methods for measuring serum cholinesterase activity have been applied to sera of normal individuals and of patients shown to be sensitive to short-acting muscle relaxants of the succinyldicholine type. They have been assessed according to their ability to differentiate between sensitive and insensitive individuals on the basis of enzyme activity measurements alone. The method described, ba...