Cochlear implants and other inner ear prostheses: today and tomorrow

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

Hearing preservation and cochlear implants according to inner ear approach: multicentric evaluation.

INTRODUCTION Electroacoustic stimulation is an excellent option for people with residual hearing in the low frequencies, who obtain insufficient benefit with hearing aids. To be effective, the subject's residual hearing should be preserved during cochlear implant surgery. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the hearing preservation in patients that underwent implant placement and to compare the results in...

Photovoltaics today and tomorrow.

In the next several decades it is expected that the United States and the rest of the nations of the world will greatly expand their consumption of electricity. But many questions will accompany this expansion: Can we build enough generating capacity? Do we have enough energy resources? Can we accommodate centralized and dispersed needs, large and small applications, and the diverse requirement...

Vaccination today and tomorrow.

The vaccines against infectious diseases in use today are, with few exceptions, prepared from the causal agents themselves, either by inactivating them with a chemical such as formaldehyde or by attenuating them so that they grow and thus evoke an immune response in the natural host but cause no disease. These empirical approaches have produced many highly successful vaccines. Increasing knowle...

Today and tomorrow

In two and almost a half years of writing this column my mum, Vesna Andrijević-Matovac, and I, Nika Matovac, shared with you a true and very intimate story of a woman with breast cancer and her daughter. In these columns, you have witnessed our great moments, sad moments, and devastating moments, you have been a part of our life. Now, as everything has its beginning and its end, it is time to s...