The purpose of this study was to determine whether clicks presented in rarefaction or condensation modes produce more accurate diagnostic information. Subjects were 20 consecutive patients who were seen at the Mayo Clinic for unilateral acoustic neuromas. The nontumor ear served as a control to minimize intersubject variability in the latencies. A standard audiologic evaluation was followed by ...

In mathematical modeling, several different functional forms can often be used to fit a data set equally well, especially if the is sparse. such cases, these mathematically but similar looking are typically considered interchangeable. Recent work, however, shows that responses may nonetheless result in significantly bifurcation points for Rosenzweig-MacArthur predator-prey system. Since behavio...

Dynamic structural responses via time history analysis are highly dependent to characteristics of selected records as the seismic excitation. Ground motion scaling is a well-known solution to reduce such a dependency and increase reliability to the dynamic results. The present work, formulate a twofold problem for optimal spectral matching and performing consequent sizing optimization based on ...

Optimal locations of the actuators for frame active control are investigated in this article. The aim is to minimize the structural drifts by employing several actuators. By utilizing genetic algorithm, the appropriate locations of the actuators are determined. They should be placed in locations where they can minimize the maximum structural drift. To explore the capability of the proposed tech...