Twenty individuals were tested to determine the occlusion effect caused by supraaural earphones and by insert earphones with shallow and deep insertion of its foam eartip. The bone-conduction oscillator was placed both on the forehead and the mastoid. It was concluded that using deeply inserted earphones is the most practical way in which to carry out clinical bone-conduction measurements.

We measured the interaural attenuation for click stimuli using insert earphones. Electrocochleographic thresholds were determined when clicks were presented both ipsilaterally and contralaterally to the recording ear. The interaural attenuation was calculated as the difference between ipsilateral and contralateral thresholds. Results from normal listeners showed that crossover occurred. Results...

Numbering schemes for labeling XML nodes are the key design element to support generic XML storage and high-efficiency access in relational databases or other reliable stores. In this paper we present a class of hierarchical numbering schemes that combine two prior published schemes [2, 13] by authors of this paper. No schema is required for the data, and streaming access is supported. Our sche...

The cathode inserts in superconducting (SC) RF guns are normal conducting devices attached to a SC RF gun cavity. They enable the photocathode replacement and, at the same time, preserve high quality factor and high fields in the RF guns. However, the insert may also limit the gun performance because of multipacting etc. The experience gathered in early designs at Wuppertal [1], and, more recen...

Touch is the most intimate and inherently private human sense and provides the potential for discrete, low social weight human computer interaction. This paper presents initial research findings on issues of integrating a vibrotatcitle display and support electronics into a standard clothing insert, the shoulder pad. Research on construction methods is presented along with a discussion of the m...

1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE Alfuzosin hydrochloride extended release tablets are indicated for the treatment of signs and symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. 1.1 Important Limitations of Use Alfuzosin hydrochloride extended release tablets are not indicated for the treatment of hypertension. Alfuzosin hydrochloride extended release tablets are not indicated for use in the pediatric population...

The vast majority of microbes in nature currently remain inaccessible to traditional cultivation methods. Over the past decade, culture-independent environmental genomic (i.e. metagenomic) approaches have emerged, enabling researchers to bridge this cultivation gap by capturing the genetic content of indigenous microbial communities directly from the environment. To this end, genomic DNA librar...

J. Leggett, D. Green, R. Bowtell Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Introduction Insert gradient coils offer significant advantages for brain imaging as a result of the large increase in gradient performance that is achieved as the coil size is reduced. It has been shown previously that head-sized ...

The edit distance between given two strings X and Y is the minimum number of edit operations that transform X into Y without performing multiple operations in the same position. Ordinarily, string editing is based on character insert, delete, and substitute operations. Motivated from the facts that substring reversals are observed in genomic sequences, and it is not always possible to transform...