OBJECTIVE Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is one of the most reported occupational diseases internationally. The occurrence of audiometric notches is emphasized in both American and European guidelines for the diagnosis of NIHL. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of notched audiograms among railway personnel with and without noise exposure to better assess the usefulness of ...

The cohesive crack model has been widely accepted as the best compromise for the analysis of fracture of concrete and other quasibrittle materials. The softening stress-separation law of this model is now believed to be best described as a bilinear curve characterized by four parameters: the initial and total fracture energies Gf and GF , the tensile strength f 0t , and the knee-point ordinate ...

In this paper, we attempted to estimate the auditory filter shape using both simultaneous and forward masking experiments with notched-noise masker. In simultaneous masking experiment, masked threshold of the probe signal in the presence of a notched-noise masker were measured for five normal hearing subjects. In each trial, the level of the probe signal was varied while masker level was kept a...

A collocation-quadrature method is proposed and studied for the numerical solution of a singular integral equation concerned with the two-dimensional elasticity problem of a crack at a circular cavity surface. These investigations are based on an C∗-algebra approach presented in a recent paper [5] on the numerical solution of an integral equation for the notched half-plane problem.

BACKGROUND In treating minor-form or microform cleft lip, obtaining an optimal result is a challenge because of the visible scarring caused by traditional surgery. We present a refined method using muscle overlapping with a minimal skin incision in patients younger than 3 years, a group characterized by thin muscle. METHODS The surgical technique involves restoration of the notched vermillion...

According to federal communication commission (FCC) rules, the 3.1 10.6 GHz band is allocated to the ultra wideband (UWB) applications. Due to the overlap of the currently allocated UWB frequency band with the communication systems such as Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) bands in the 2.4GHz(2.4–2.484GHz), 5.2GHz (5.15–5.35GHz),and 5.8GHz(5.725–5.825GHz) bands, and the World Interoperability ...

In this paper, a simple method to obtain a notch in the ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter is presented. UWB bandpass filter is designed using ground plane aperture technique. To reject the undesired wireless local area network (WLAN) signals, a complementary single split ring resonator (CSSRR) is placed under the coupled lines of the bandpass filter. The CSSRR has flat insertion loss and goo...

The cleavage fracture toughness of steels was mezzo-scopically analyzed on the basis of the statistical local fracture criterion approach. The statistical stress criterion at the crack tip region suggests that the cleavage fracture toughness in steels can be described as a function of the yield stress, the cleavage fracture stress, and other mechanical properties of the materials. Formulation o...