A surgical method of fully internal tinnitus suppressor is presented. The surgical approach for the placement of the electrode is very simple and causes less injury to the cochlea. This surgical approach is quite similar to the exploratory tympanotomy. The unit is located at the seat which is drilled in the mastoid bone just behind the external ear canal. The stimulating electrode is introduced...

There were 7276 e-mail requests sent to dentists in the United States and Canada requesting participation in a short web-based survey to update earlier information regarding the use of dental outpatient sedation. Participants were questioned regarding their use of dental outpatient sedation, including the frequency of use, type of sedation used, route ofadministration, medications used, physiol...

Objectives:In this study, the applicability of dry condensate generated from food waste feed conversion process was evaluated as an external carbon source to increase efficiency biological denitrification process.Methods:The experiment carried out in form a batch test, and injected into each reactor according COD T/N ratio (C/N ratio). Then, operated under anoxic conditions for 5 hours, nitrate...

Building on the well-established relationship between economic dynamics and political processes, we focus most important element of process, namely, general (or national) elections, look into their effects public finance total output. In this vein, present study has three objectives: (i) to investigate budget cycles in Greece during period known as ‘Third Hellenic Republic’ (in Greek, ‘Metapoli...

the central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. this necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...