Background There is challenge to find an effective treatment for tinnitus. Few studies were done on the effects of acupuncture on tinnitus. This study evaluated the effect of acupuncture on chronic non-pulsatile tinnitus. Methods This randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted from December 2014 to September 2015. Patients suffering from chronic non-pulsatile tinnitus were randomly ...

Lakes in the Dhaka city have been facing extreme deterioration both by quantity and quality due to rapid urban population growth for several decades. The prime objective is assess spatiotemporal changes of water lakes respectively using Sentinel 2B Landsat satellite images. study covers major twelve city. four seasonal qualities such as chlorophyll-a concentration, trophic state index (TSI), Se...

From a mechanistic viewpoint, it is desirable to predict the distribution of species based on ecological parameters (e.g. rainfall or temperature) that are causal factors for their distribution. Data for such ecological factors are difficult or expensive to collect and are usually insufficient. Terrain-related variables are used as proxies of ecological factors in the study since data for them ...

Long-term, incoming total solar irradiance (TSI) measurement trends were validated using proxy TSI values, derived from indices of solar magnetic activity. Spacecraft active cavity radiometers (ACR) are being used to measure longterm TSI variability, which may trigger global climate changes. The TSI, typically referred to as the “solar constant,” was normalized to the mean earth-sun distance. S...

The climate variability associated with the ENSO phenomenon has a significant impact on wetlands, affecting total precipitation input and hydrological flows of these ecosystems. objective this paper is to study trophic status variation an urban tropical wetland under conditions, through dynamic modeling. results suggest increase in precipitation, by 3.32 times, during La Niña phase compared El ...

The present study was conducted to obtain estimates of certain biological and economic indices of the trophic structure of the Omani landed fish catch, namely, the mean trophic level (MTL), the fishing-in-balance (FiB) index and the relative price index (RPI). The MTL generally decreased from 1995 to 2010, indicating a fishing-down of the marine trophic web. The FiB index increased, indicating ...

A method developed to evaluate the cumulative effect of wetland mosaics on water quality was applied to 33 lake watersheds in the seven-county region surrounding Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. A geographic information system (GIS) was used to record and measure landscape variables derived from aerial photos. Twenty-seven watershed land-use and land-cover variables were reduced to eight princi...

Para-water is an analogue of para-hydrogen, where the two proton spins are in a quantum state that is antisymmetric under permutation, also known as singlet state. The populations of the nuclear spin states in para-water are believed to have long lifetimes just like other Long-Lived States (LLSs). This hypothesis can be verified by measuring the relaxation of an excess or a deficiency of para-w...

Population exposure to multiple chemicals in air presents significant challenges for environmental public health. Air quality regulations distinguish criteria air pollutants (CAPs) (e.g., ozone, PM2.5) from hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)-187 chemicals which include carcinogens and others that are associated with respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological and numerous other non-cancer health eff...