The aim of this study was to explore the collapsibility of the Italian version of Khalfa’s hyperacusis questionnaire (HQ). We identified the more statistically significant items of the HQ and created the short hyperacusis questionnaire (SHQ). We recruited 117 consecutive outpatients with a primary complaint of tinnitus at least from 3 months. All patients filled in the complete Italian version ...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs due to sleep-induced upper airway muscle relaxation resulting in increased pharyngeal collapsibility. Clinical trials have shown a favorable effect of exercise training on OSA severity in middle-aged adults. Aging is characterized by motor-unit loss. Force training may affect the whole body muscle tone. We hypothesize that interventions increasing...

A triangulation of a 3-manifold can be shown to be homeomorphic to the 3-sphere by describing a discrete Morse function on it with only two critical faces, that is, a sequence of elementary collapses from the triangulation with one tetrahedron removed down to a single vertex. Unfortunately, deciding whether such a sequence exist is believed to be very difficult in general. In this article we pr...

Let A be an idempotent algebra on a 3-element domain D that omits a G-set for a factor. Suppose A is not αβ-projective (for some α, β ⊂ D so that α ∪ β = D and α ∩ β 6= ∅) and is not collapsible. It follows that A is switchable. We prove that, for every finite subset ∆ of Inv(A), Pol(∆) is collapsible. We also exhibit an algebra that is collapsible from a non-singleton source but is not collaps...

Communications to the Editor made of an obstetric patient in this article. As an intensivist who also, coincidentally, happens to deliver pregnant patients, as well as having a strong interest in the care of the obstetrically ill critically ill patient, I would be willing to develop a registry of obstetric patients who develop a critical illness. Included in the data would be the category of cr...

Abstract The comprehensive evaluation of pipeline loess collapsibility risk is a necessary means to control the safety risks pipelines in collapsible section. It also one critical scientific bases for prevention, control, and management. system cloud theory consists quantitative qualitative indexes, has characteristics randomness fuzziness. In view this problem, standard semi-quantitative metho...