The Vegetation Health index (VHI) is based on a combination of products extracted from vegetation signals, namely the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and from the brightness temperatures, both derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor. VH users rely on a strong inverse correlation between NDVI and land surface temperature, since increasing land ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Current postoperative clinical outcome measures for adults receiving cochlear implants (CIs) consist of testing speech recognition, primarily under quiet conditions. However, it is strongly suspected that results on these measures may not adequately reflect patients' quality of life (QOL) using their implants. This study aimed to evaluate whether QOL for CI users depends o...

enact an early medical consultation about their daughter.

substances, the main one of which he called haematoporphyrin (porphurouspurple). Three years later Schultz published the first case of porphyria. In 1911 Glinther classified the diseases of porphyrin metabolism from published cases, including his own. Since then, numerous papers have been published and various classifications put forward. The latest classification is that from Brodie et al,2 in...

base this paper on a presentation made at the conference " Sex and the Signal. " I am grateful to the organizers for inviting me to the conference and to the participants (in particular, Barcelona for hospitality and administrative support.

chemical cerebral disturbance, but admits that the nature of the actual process is unknown. This remains true today, despite extensive research and several interesting discoveries of biochemical irregularities in schizophrenia. Bleuler further maintains that primary symptoms, namely loosening of associations (thought disorder) and blunting of affect, are phenomena directly produced by the proce...

INTRODUCTION The association between hearing loss and chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis has been well documented. However, the classification used for the degree of loss may underestimate the actual diagnosis due to specific characteristics related to the most affected auditory frequencies. Furthermore, correlations of hearing loss and hemodialysis time with hearing handicap remain unknow...