Variations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) exert an 7 important influence on climate, particularly on decadal time scales. Simulation of the MOC 8 in coupled climate models is compromised, to a degree that is unknown, by their lack of 9 fidelity in resolving some of the key processes involved. There is an overarching need to 10 increase the resolution and fidelity of cl...

Milk of Calcium (MOC) refers to a colloidal suspension of calcium salts. The occurrence is rare and it has been reported to occur most commonly in pyelocalyceal diverticula of Kidneys. Cases of MOC in gall bladder and breast has also been reported. MOC has distinct features on X-Ray, Ultrasonography and Computed Tomogram (CT). The MOC cysts of kidneys are frequently mistaken for renal stones on...

Variations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) exert an 7 important influence on climate, particularly on decadal time scales. Simulation of the MOC 8 in coupled climate models is compromised, to a degree that is unknown, by their lack of 9 fidelity in resolving some of the key processes involved. There is an overarching need to 10 increase the resolution and fidelity of cl...

BACKGROUND The medial olivocochlear (MOC) pathway modulates basilar membrane motion and auditory nerve activity on both a fast (10-100 ms) and a slow (10-100 s) time scale in guinea pigs. The slow MOC modulation of cochlear activity is postulated to aide in protection against acoustic trauma. However in humans, the existence and functional roles of slow MOC effects remain unexplored. METHODOL...

The medial-olivocochlear (MOC) acoustic reflex is thought to provide frequency-specific feedback that adjusts the gain of cochlear amplification, but little is known about how frequency specific the reflex actually is. We measured human MOC tuning through changes in stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) from 40-dB-SPL tones at probe frequencies (f(p)s) near 0.5, 1.0, and 4.0 kHz. MO...

This paper presents an efficient interconnect network for Mesh of Clusters (MoC) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture. Compared to conventional MoC-based FPGA, proposed architecture improves the MoC-based interconnect in 2 ways. First, we optimize the intra-cluster interconnect topology by depopulating the intra-cluster full crossbar. Then, we propose a new multi-levels interconnec...

Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) are remarkable, mechanically-active receptors that determine the exquisite sensitivity and frequency selectivity characteristic of the mammalian auditory system. While there are three to four times as many OHCs compared with inner hair cells, OHCs lack a significant afferent innervation and, instead, receive a rich efferent innervation from medial olivocochlear ...

Activation of the medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferents attenuates cochlear gain and reduces the amplitudes of mechanical, electrical, and neural cochlear outputs. The functional roles of the MOC efferents are not fully understood, especially in humans, despite postulations that they are involved in protection against acoustic trauma, facilitation of transient-sound perception, etc. Delineating ...

BACKGROUND Etomidate is a rapidly acting sedative-hypnotic that provides hemodynamic stability. It causes prolonged suppression of adrenocortical steroid synthesis; therefore, its clinical utility and safety are limited. The authors describe the results of studies to define the pharmacology of (R)-3-methoxy-3-oxopropyl1-(1-phenylethyl)-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate (MOC-etomidate), the first etomi...

Diagnosis The classic history is of the patient who begins his or her symptoms by awakening at night with numbness and pain in the median nerve distribution of his or her hand(s). This progresses to daytime symptoms that are often aggravated by activities.1,2 The occurrence of “dropping objects” in carpal tunnel syndrome patients is an index of elevated disease severity.3 Carpal tunnel symptoms...