Florida sweet corn is harvested with 2 to 6 inches of shank and several flag leaves attached to the ear. Long shanks and fresh husks have been considered indexes of good quality. Storage tests with 15 lots of sweet corn showed that ears with long shanks had dented kernels much sooner than ears with short shanks. However, husks remained fresh longer on ears with long shanks. An indication was fo...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To compare the eustachian tube (ET) angle (ETa) and length (ETl) of ears with and without chronic otitis media (COM), and to determine the relationship between ET anatomy and the development of COM. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective case-control study. METHODS The study group comprised 125 patients (age range, 8-79 years; 64 males and 61 females) with 124 normal ears and 12...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Gaps-In-Noise (GIN) test is a measure to assess auditory temporal resolution, which is the ability to follow rapid changes in the envelope of a sound stimulus over time. We investigated whether unilateral tinnitus affects temporal resolution by the GIN performance. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Hearing tests including the GIN test were performed in 120 ears of 60 patients...

The characteristics of high frequency (1000 Hz) acoustic admittance results obtained from normal neonates were described in this study. Participants were 170 healthy neonates (96 boys and 74 girls) aged between 1 and 6 days (mean = 3.26 days, SD = 0.92). Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), and 226 Hz and 1000 Hz probe tone tympanograms were obtained from the participants using a Ma...

A controversy exists concerning whether or not roentgenographic narrowing or nonvisualization of the vestibular aqueduct is a specific sign for Meniere's disease. Of 190 ears that were evaluated, abnormal aqueducts were seen in 42.9% of ears with Meniere's disease, 45.4% of contralateral, noninvolved ears from patients with Meniere's disease, 41.3% of ears with diseases other than Meniere's dis...

1212 Carlo Carbone , * Sandra Gardonio , Paolo Moras , Samir Lounis , Marcus Heide , Gustav Bihlmayer , Nicolae Atodiresei , Peter Heinz Dederichs , Stefan Blügel , Sergio Vlaic , Anne Lehnert , Safi a Ouazi , Stefano Rusponi , Harald Brune , Jan Honolka , Axel Enders , Klaus Kern , Sebastian Stepanow , Cornelius Krull , Timofey Balashov , Aitor Mugarza , and Pietro Gambardella Self-Assembled N...

We use a notion (introduced in Topology 41 (2002), 1119–1212), which is stronger than the concept of filtration pair, to prove a stable/unstable manifold general theorem for local homeomorphisms of the plane in a neighborhood of an isolated fixed point.

INTRODUCTION Patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) develop bilateral cochleovestibular schwannomas (CVSs) that cause binaural deafness in most individuals. Hearing loss occurs in an unpredictable manner and the underlying mechanisms are not known. To gain insight into the pathophysiologic basis for hearing loss in NF2, we performed a prospective cross-sectional study of untreated ears in...