The putative role of the lateral parietal lobe in episodic memory has recently become a topic of considerable debate, owing primarily to its consistent activation for studied materials during functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of recognition. Here we examined the performance of patients with parietal lobe lesions using an explicit memory cueing task in which probabilistic cues ("Like...

Earplugs are a widespread solution to prevent the problem of hearing loss in the workplace environment, but they do not always perform as desired. Using a model of the ear canal occluded by an earplug could be helpful to perform sensitivity analyses (geometry and materials of the earplug) and to better understand the role of the earplug. The human external ear is a complex system made up of dif...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of earmolds made of silicone and acrylic on outer ear canal resonance characteristics in terms of resonance frequency and amplitude measured in a hearing aid fitting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Outer ear canal resonance frequencies and amplitudes in open ears and those measured with silicone and acrylic ear molds were obtained from 30 ...

Spatial features have been demonstrated to be helpful in visual tasks such as object detection, image retrieval, and semantic segmentation [13, 12, 9, 6, 1, 2, 7]. For visual relationship detection task, spatial features such as the relative location and size of two objects are informative for predicate prediction. For example, relative location is a discriminative feature for predicates “under...

Ignition is the initial stage of burning the materials. The consequent flame spread over the materials, heat release rate, fire spread across the rooms, and other issues for building fires all depend on that. Numerous studies on the ignition of cellulose materials, especially wood, were reported in the literature. There are smoldering or glowing ignition (self-heating ignition) and flaming igni...