background outer hair cells' (ohcs') dysfunctions as the extent of temporary and permanent threshold shifts (tts and pts) and cochlear damage were assessed in rabbits exposed to continuous noise methods twelve new zealand white rabbits were studied in noise (n) (n=6; exposed to continuous noise; 95 db spl, 500-8000 hz for 8 h per day during 5 consecutive days) and control (c) (n=6; no...

background: noise-induced hearing loss (nihl) is one of the most common occupational illnesses. most of the studies on nihl were conducted at high noise levels that people are rarely exposed to but in industries. the function of the outer hair cells (ohcs) is impaired after exposure to industrial noise. distortion product otoacoustic emissions (dpoaes) are useful in examination of noise-induced...

In this paper we give an easy combinatorial description for the base partition B of a skew character [A], which is the intersection of all partitions α whose corresponding character [α] appears in [A]. This we use to construct the cover partition C for the ordinary outer product as well as for the Schubert product of two characters and for some skew characters, here the cover partition is the u...

A graph is 1-planar, if it admits a 1-planar embedding, where each edge has at most one crossing. Unfortunately, testing 1-planarity of a graph is known as NP-complete. This paper considers the problem of testing 2-planarity of a graph, in particular,testing full outer-2planarity of a graph. A graph is fully-outer-2-planar, if it admits a fully-outer-2-planar embedding such that every vertex is...

Vertebrate photoreceptors are specialized light sensing neurons. The photoreceptor outer segment is a highly modified cilium where photons of light are transduced into a chemical and electrical signal. The outer segment has the typical cilary axoneme but, in addition, it has a large number of densely packed, stacked, intramembranous discs. The molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute t...

In the structural optimization problem, the aim is to decrease the amount of structural costs and weight, but the safety of platform should not violate the individual limits enforced by offshore codes. The outer diameter and thickness of members are two important variables in the optimization process and their final dimensions should be obtained according to the optimization algorithms such as ...

The outer membrane, an essential organelle of Gram-negative bacteria, is composed of four major components: lipopolysaccharide, phospholipids, beta-barrel proteins, and lipoproteins. The mechanisms underlying the transport of these components to outer membranes are currently under extensive examination. Among them, the sorting of lipoproteins to the outer membrane of Escherichia coli has been c...