Conductive hearing loss caused by external or middle ear problems prevents the transmission of sound waves from the external auditory canal to the cochlea, and it is a common condition, especially in pediatric patients aged 1–5 years. The most...
Identifying a vestibular source of pathology in patients complaining of post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) dizziness can be difficult. We describe a possible new method utilizing a reduction in post-TBI symptoms (including dizziness) with the use of a...
Background/Objectives: Multiple dehiscences of the otic capsule can exhibit behavior similar to Ménière’s disease, not only from a clinical perspective but also in the results of audiovestibular tests. The main objective of this s...
Background and Objectives: We aimed to identify prognostic computed tomography (CT) findings in retrofenestral otosclerosis, with particular attention paid to the role of otosclerotic lesion area in predicting post-stapedotomy outcome. Materials and...
We investigated emission properties of photonic structures with InAs/InGaAlAs/InP quantum dashes grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a distributed Bragg reflector. In high-spatial-resolution photoluminescence experiment, well-resolved sharp spectral l...
The incorporation of oleic acid and oleylamine, acting as organic surfactant coatings for a novel solvothermal synthesis procedure, resulted in the formation of monoclinic KLu(WO4)2 nanocrystals. The formation of this crystalline phase was confirmed...
There are several pathologies that can change the anatomy of the otic capsule and that can distort the bone density of the bony structures of the inner ear, but otosclerosis is one of the most frequent. Similar behavior has been shown in patients aff...
Introduction: We present a series of six cases whose clinical presentations exhibited audiovestibular manifestations of a third mobile window mechanism, bearing a reasonable resemblance to Ménière’s disease and otosclerosis. The o...
Conductive hearing losses are typically present in disorders of the external/middle ear. However, there is a rare group of inner ear conditions called third windows that can also generate a conductive hearing loss. This is due to an abnormal connecti...
Posterior semicircular canal dehiscence (PSCD) has been demonstrated to result in a third mobile window mechanism (TMWM) in the inner ear similar to superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD). Typical clinical and instrumental features of TMWM, in...
Background: Enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) syndrome can mimic otosclerosis in adults, presenting with an air–bone gap (ABG) and even absent stapedial reflexes. The ABG in inner-ear disorders is currently the object of several authors’...
Surgical plugging of the superior semicircular canal (SSC) represents an effective procedure to treat disabling symptoms in superior canal dehiscence (SCD), despite resulting in an impaired vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain for the SSC. On the other...
Background/Objectives: An air–bone gap (ABG) on audiometry is usually secondary to a conductive hearing loss. However, persistent and repeatable ABGs on audiometry in the absence of external or middle ear pathology is thought to arise from inne...
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of endolymphatic duct blockage (EDB) on dizziness control in patients with a large vestibular aqueduct (LVA) and to evaluate its effect on hearing. Study design: This is a prospective nonrando...
Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has been a commonly used methodology to obtain powerful ultrashort laser pulses ever since its first demonstration. However, wavelength-tunable CPA systems are much less common. Wavelength-tunable ultrashort and inte...
The necessity of having windows on any building’s façade is not questionable. However, not every window is suitable for any building. The selection of an adequate window must include the analysis of various factors—the most importa...
The energy consumption levels of buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are among the highest in the world. One of the main reasons for this energy consumption is the need to cool buildings due to the hot climate of the UAE. As a large part of t...
We apply a relatively novel leading–lagging (LL) method to four leading and one lagging indexes for industrial production (IP) in Germany. We obtain three sets of results. First, we show that the sentiment-based ifo index performs best in predi...
Gestational weight gain (GWG) may be affected by the timing of dietary intake. Previous studies have reported contradictory findings, possibly due to inconsistent characterizations of meal timing. We conducted a birth cohort study in Tianjin to deter...
This paper proposes extended-window algorithms for model prediction and applies them to optimize hybrid power systems. We consider a hybrid power system comprising solar panels, batteries, a fuel cell, and a chemical hydrogen generation system. The p...
We review the hot QCD transition with varying number of flavours, from two till the onset of the conformal window. We discuss the universality class for
The vehicle detection method plays an important role in the driver assistance system. Therefore, it is very important to improve the real-time performance of the detection algorithm. Nowadays, the most popular method is the scanning method based on s...
This article deals with the implementation of the P-Class PMU compliant with IEC/IEEE Standard 60255-118-1:2018 by usage of a multiple-resonator (MR)-based approach for harmonic analysis having been proposed recently. In previously published articles...
Background/Objectives: The eating window concept has been understudied in children, with no reports from Austria. This study explored meal timing and its association with obesity-related variables in a sample of Viennese schoolchildren. The effect of...
In this paper, we propose a method to construct a lightweight key-value store based on the Windows native features. The main idea is providing a thin wrapper for the key-value store on top of a built-in storage in Windows, called Windows registry. Fi...
19 April 2021
Shortening of the gestational duration has been found associated with ambient air pollution exposure. However, the critical exposure windows of ambient air pollution for gestational duration remain inconsistent, and the association between ambient ai...
In this paper, a nano-layered transmission GaAs photocathode structure is proposed. The near-infrared absorption of the photocathode is enhanced by inserting a “sandwich” structure of nano-SiO2 layer + Si3N4 nanopillar array + nano-SiO2 l...
One of the common methods for measuring distance is to use a camera and image processing algorithm, such as an eye and brain. Mechanical stereo vision uses two cameras to shoot the same object and analyzes the disparity of the stereo vision. One of t...
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a promising solution for handling sensitive data in semi-trusted third-party computing environments, as it enables processing of encrypted data. However, applying sophisticated techniques such as machine learning, stati...
In this paper, we design a multifunctional micro-nano device with a hybrid metamaterial-waveguide system, which leads to a triple plasmon-induced transparency (PIT). The formation mechanisms of the three transparent peaks have their own unique charac...
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of methylprednisolone compared to other drugs to control postoperative complications following third molar surgery. PubMed and Google Scholar were used for article sea...
Lightweight Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) faces the core challenge of balancing computational efficiency with reconstruction quality, particularly in preserving both high-frequency details and global structures under constrained resources. To...
Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating condition in preterm infants due to multiple factors, including gut microbiota dysbiosis. NEC development is poorly understood, due to the focus on severe NEC (NEC-2/3). Methods: We studied...
15 February 2022
Recent study results on the association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution with preterm birth have been inconsistent. The sensitive window of exposure and influence level of air pollutants varied greatly. We aimed to explore the assoc...
Food adulteration is the most serious problem found in the food industry as it harms people’s healths and undermines their beliefs. The present study is focused on designing and developing a smart electronic nose (SE-Nose) for the qualitative a...
We extend the classical fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) framework in time-frequency analysis by exploring several novel directions. First, we generalize the FUP beyond the classical Gaussian window by investigating non-Gaussian windows and the co...
This paper proposes a video summarization algorithm called the Mutual Information and Entropy based adaptive Sliding Window (MIESW) method, which is specifically for the static summary of gesture videos. Considering that gesture videos usually have u...
The European Standard EN 15757: 2010 ‘Conservation of Cultural Property—Specifications for temperature and relative humidity to limit climate-induced mechanical damage in organic hygroscopic materials’ is a guide specifying the allo...
The reduction of electricity use for heating and domestic hot water in cold climates can be achieved by: (1) reducing the heating loads through the improvement of the thermal performance of house envelopes, and (2) using solar energy through a reside...
In this paper, we apply multidimensional scaling (MDS) and parametric similarity indices (PSI) in the analysis of complex systems (CS). Each CS is viewed as a dynamical system, exhibiting an output time-series to be interpreted as a manifestation of...
We present four unique prediction techniques, combined with multiple data pre-processing methods, utilizing a wide range of both oil types and oil peroxide values (PV) as well as incorporating natural aging for peroxide creation. Samples were PV assa...
Background/Objectives: In metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), liquid biopsy has enabled the identification of “neo-RAS-Wild-Type (WT)”, a transient phase characterized by the disappearance of RAS mutations, with significant clinical impl...
Cationic dendritic amphiphiles were prepared through the linkage of interesting hydrophobic molecules such as cholesterol or vitamin E to the focal point of carbosilane dendrons. These new dendritic systems self-assembled in saline, producing micella...
Predicting the academic standing of a student at the graduation time can be very useful, for example, in helping institutions select among candidates, or in helping potentially weak students in overcoming educational challenges. Most studies use indi...
The existing deep-learning-based hyperspectral anomaly detection methods detect anomalies by reconstructing a clean background. However, these methods model the background of the hyperspectral image (HSI) through global features, neglecting local fea...
Pulsed Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar (CDWL) usually utilizes a fixed-length range gate to divide the time domain of the echo signal, which can lead to the incomplete sampling of echo signals, resulting in a spectral leakage phenomenon and affecting the...
Multi-modal remote sensing image (MRSI) matching suffers from severe nonlinear radiometric distortions and geometric deformations, and conventional feature-based techniques are generally ineffective. This study proposes a novel and robust MRSI matchi...
Because roller element bearings (REBs) failures cause unexpected machinery breakdowns, their fault diagnosis has attracted considerable research attention. Established fault feature extraction methods focus on statistical characteristics of the vibra...
The green open vehicle routing problem with time windows has been widely studied to plan routes with minimal emissions in third-party logistics. Due to the NP-hardness, the performance of the general heuristics significantly degrades when dealing wit...
Based on our deconvolution result of the Tetraphenyl porphyrin nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum, we initiated a goodness-of-fitting evaluation by overlaying the third-order derivatives of the native NMR spectrum and the entire reconstructed...
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