Bone conduction (BC) hearing relies on sound vibration transmission in the skull bone. Several clinical findings indicate that in the human, the skull vibration of the inner ear dominates the response for BC sound. Two phenomena transform the vibrations of the skull surrounding the inner ear to an excitation of the basilar membrane, (1) inertia of the inner ear fluid and (2) compression and exp...

This study examined the factor structure of a scale based on the four-dimensional gender identity model (Egan and Perry, 2001) in 726 Chinese elementary school students. Exploratory factor analyses suggested a three-factor model, two of which corresponded to "Felt Pressure" and "Intergroup Bias" in the original model. The third factor "Gender Compatibility" appeared to be a combination of "Gend...

objectives we aimed to translate the bapt into farsi, assess its content validity, and examine its reliability and validity to identify exclusive breastfeeding discontinuation in iran. materials and methods the bapt was translated into farsi and the content validity of the farsi version of the bapt was assessed. it was administered to 356 pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy, who ...

In this paper the development of a single set of design parameters of the sizing of the tidally affected detention pond system was analyzed and tested. The approach uses critical duration single storm event of specified return period, together with a single harmonic tide. The design flood level is then the aggregate of the levels obtained using the system model with the four phase lags between ...

background: several instruments have so far been developed in english language to measure the level of work-family conflict and further validation is required for non-english speakers. objective: to test factorial structure and construct validity of the persian version of work-family conflict scale among iranian nurse. methods: this study was conducted among 456 iranian nurses working at public...

The current paper proposes a novel color correction approach based on a probabilistic segmentation framework by using 3D Gaussian Mixture Models. Regions are used to compute local color correction functions, which are then combined to obtain the final corrected image. The proposed approach is evaluated using both a recently published metric and two large data sets composed of seventy images. Th...

This category was introduced in [1] and has been studied by Assem, Brüstle, Schiffler and Todorov [2], the authors [3], Thomas [4], Wralsen [5] and Zhu [6]. In particular, Thomas and Zhu have shown that it gives rise to the combinatorics of the generalized cluster complexes of Fomin and Reading [7] (defined by Tzanaki [8] for types A and B). It is known that C∆ is triangulated [1], Krull-Schmid...