BACKGROUND Permanent congenital hearing loss affects up to 6/1000 births in developing countries. Currently, in Uganda there is no newborn screening for hearing loss (NSHL) program and no published work on this topic. Within the existing healthcare system there are two opportunities to deliver screening, at birth or 6 weeks of age when infants receive their immunizations. AIM This study explo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of 3 commercially available, orally administered electrolyte solutions (OAEs) on abomasal luminal pH and emptying rate in dairy calves, compared with the effect of orally administered milk replacer. DESIGN Randomized crossover study. ANIMALS 6 male dairy calves (age, 12 to 31 days). PROCEDURES Calves were surgically instrumented with an abomasal cannula ...

BACKGROUND The effect of the agonism on γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors was studied within medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), amygdala (AMY) and ventral hipocampus (VH) in the plus-maze test in male rats bilaterally cannulated. These structures send glutamatergic projections to the nucleus accumbens septi (NAS), in which interaction and integration between these afferent pathways has been de...

We investigated the binding problem (e.g. the combination of edge information across attributes), using an orientation aftereffect paradigm (OAE). Horizontal layers of vertical edges were phase-shifted to create a global near-vertical orientation. Multi-attribute displays were created by alternating the attribute defining edges (e.g. luminance, colour, texture or motion) across layers. OAE magn...

Models of otoacoustic emission (OAE) generation mechanisms often attribute important features of OAEs to waves traveling along the cochlear partition. Since the lizard basilar papilla manifests no obvious analog of the mammalian traveling wave, detailed characterization of lizard OAEs offers an important opportunity to test and extend our knowledge of emission mechanisms. We report otoacoustic ...

Challenge, adventure, and risk in outdoor adventurous education (OAE) have long been recognised as foundational components the framing of valuable transformational experiences for participants. Whilst literature has identified benefits these types learning experiences, what remained largely absent is an interrogation emerging emotional effects surrounding fear response. This paper presents exam...

Abstract The organic-rich upper Lower Jurassic Da'anzhai Member (Ziliujing Formation) of the Sichuan Basin, China is first stratigraphically well-constrained lacustrine succession associated with Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE; c. 183 Ma). expansion palaeo-Sichuan mega-lake, probably one most extensive freshwater systems to have existed on planet, marked by large-scale organic productivit...