BACKGROUND Undiagnosed hearing loss can cause disorders in speech and language and delay in social and emotional development. AIM This study aimed to screen for hearing loss in all newborns born in Babol city during 2009-2011. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-five newborns (49% [7430/15165] male and 51% [7735/15165] female) born during a 30-month period in Babol, ...

Objective: There could be efferent system damage in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus. The study attempts to determine the efferent auditory system functioning through contralateral suppression of otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and speech perception in noise (SPIN) in individuals with type II diabetes mellitus (DM). Method: The study was carried out on twenty five participants (50 ears) w...

Hearing loss has been reported as a complication following cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation. Preoperative hearing testing is not commonly done in these procedures, so preoperative and postoperative hearing loss, if any, may occur unnoticed. 30 subjects in the age range of 50-70 with a mean age of 60.16 years with myocardial infarction and scheduled to undergo cardiopulmonary bypa...

The work assesses the availability and localizations of different raw materials suitable for ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), like limestone, olivine, magnesite brucite, since several billion tons rocky are needed to achieve meaningful results carbon sequestration through OAE. Resources carbonates immense widespread around all continents. Availability pure is still very large (outcrop area 4...

A convenient two-step, one-pot synthesis of oligo(arylene–ethynylene) (OAE) type molecular wires in yields up to 70% via situ desilylation protected bis(alkynes) Me3SiC?CArC?CSiMe3 (Ar = 2,5-thienyl, 1,4-naphthylene, 9,10-anthrylene) and subsequent Sonogashira cross-coupling with S-(4-iodophenyl) ethanethiolate, 4-iodothioanisole, or 5-bromo-3,3-dimethyl-2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]thiophene is describe...

introduction: effective perception of fear signals is crucial for organism survival. when threated, the organism indicates defensive behaviors. methods: elevated plus–maze has high efficiency for measurement of fear behavior and is widly used for fear behavior determination. increase in two parameters percent of openarm entries (%oae) and percent of time spent in the open-arm (%oat) in the elev...

The existence of the Language Familiarity Effect (LFE), where talkers a familiar language are easier to identify than an unfamiliar language, is well-documented and uncontroversial. However, closely related phenomenon known as Other Accent (OAE), accented more difficult recognize, less well understood. There several possible explanations for why OAE exists, but date, little data exist adjudicat...