It is routine for audiologists to fit nonlinear hearing aids by using one of several current prescriptive formulae. While such an approach might result in acceptable fittings for single-channel analog compression hearing aids, its direct application to fitting current multichannel compression hearing aids may result in less than an optimal fit. In this paper, the effects of filter bandwidth, nu...

conclusions after kyphoplasty, her pain was immediately resolved, vertebral body height was restored to normal, and pain score was reduced from 8 to 1. she was discharged with a normal neurological examination and good general condition, and returned to her normal life. in this case, balloon kyphoplasty resulted in the restoration of the vertebral body height, decrease in pain, and returning to...

BACKGROUND Implementation of new guidelines into clinical practice is often incomplete. Direct mail is a simple way of providing information to physicians and may improve implementation of new guidelines on basic life support (BLS). The aim of this study was to describe knowledge of the most recent European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines for BLS among general practitioners (GPs) and inv...

BACKGROUND Natural gums are polymers widely used as excipients in drug formulation. Polymer extraction and formulation processing methods could significantly affect formulation characteristics. OBJECTIVES To evaluate different methods of gum extraction and the effect of different compression methods on the mechanical and release properties of tramadol hydrochloride matrix tablets incorporatin...

Introduction Given the difficulty of performing efficient CPR compressions, technology has turned to automaticity. LUCAS device has a pneumatically driven piston to compress the heart and uses active decompression suction on the upstroke. AUTOPULSE is a load distributing band compressor, that is mechanically actuated and battery driven. It provides both direct compression and semi-circumferenti...

Introduction Given the difficulty of performing efficient CPR compressions, technology has turned to automaticity. LUCAS device has a pneumatically driven piston to compress the heart and uses active decompression suction on the upstroke. AUTOPULSE is a load distributing band compressor, that is mechanically actuated and battery driven. It provides both direct compression and semi-circumferenti...

In this paper, we present a direct solution method based on wavelet networks for image compression. Wavelet networks are a combination of radial basis function (RBF) networks and wavelet decomposition, where radial basis functions were replaced by wavelets. The results show that the wavelet networks approach succeeded to improve high performances in terms of compression ratio and reconstruction...

Professor Borivoje Nikolic Second Reader Date 2 ABSTRACT Future lithography systems must produce microchips with smaller feature sizes, while maintaining throughputs comparable to those of today's optical lithography systems. This places stringent constraints on the effective input data rate of any maskless lithography system. In recent years, my research group has developed a datapath architec...

pray-dried (SD) lactose was introduced to the pharmaceutical market in the 1960s as an excipient that enables direct compression of formulations in a simple manufacturing process (1). To this day, lactose remains one of the most popular excipients for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) whose dose makes them suitable for direct compression. Several manufacturers make and sell SD lactose, a...