OBJECTIVE As part of a study of possible effects of early life otitis media on children's development, we attempted to determine whether levels of language and communication skills at 1 and 2 years of age are associated with the cumulative duration of middle ear effusion (MEE) in the first 2 years of life. METHODS Subjects (N = 2156) were followed at one of eight study sites in the Pittsburgh...

Protected area management agencies are increasingly using management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) to better understand, learn from and improve conservation efforts around the globe. Outcome assessment is the final stage of MEE, where conservation outcomes are measured to determine whether management objectives are being achieved. When quantitative monitoring data are available, best-practice ...

Magnetoelectrolysis (electrolysis under magnetic fields) produces chiral surfaces on metal thin films, which can recognize the enantiomers of amino acids. Here, the chiral surface formation on copper films is reported in magnetoelectrochemical etching (MEE) at 5T with chloride additives. In the absence of additives, the surface chirality signs of MEE films depended on the magnetic field polarit...

To date, most linear and nonlinear Kalman filters (KFs) have been developed under the Gaussian assumption well-known minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. In order to improve robustness with respect impulsive (or heavy-tailed) non-Gaussian noises, maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) has recently used replace MMSE in developing several robust Kalman-type filters. deal more complicated nois...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become an established business practice, however the practice can increase an organisation’s information security risks. The implementation of a BYOD policy for laptops must consider how the information security risks can be mitigated or managed. The selection of an appropriate secure laptop software configuration is an important part of the information security...

Glutathione in its reduced form (GSH) is an antioxidant and also is involved in pheomelanin formation. Thus, it has been long believed that GSH has a skin whitening effect. However, its actual or direct effect is unproven. We evaluated the anti-melanogenic effects of GSH and its derivatives in vitro. We examined change of melanogenesis and its related proteins by GSH itself and its derivatives,...

CONTEXT Childhood acute otitis media (AOM) is highly prevalent. Its usual sequela of middle ear effusion (MEE) can lead to conductive hearing loss, for which surgery is commonly used. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) protocol on MEE resolution following an episode of AOM. The authors hypothesized that OMT provided adjunctively to standard care ...

The goal of this study was to assess the utility of experimental methods to quantify mechanical energy expenditure (MEE) in human movement. To achieve this goal, a theoretical model of steady-state cycling driven by individual muscle actuators was used to produce two distinct pedal simulations. The simulations yielded the same pedaling rate and power output, but one reduced the MEE by avoiding ...

OBJECTIVE Scandinavian guidelines recommend controlling middle-ear effusion (MEE) after acute otitis media. The study aim was to determine whether nurses without otoscopic experience can reliably exclude MEE with tympanometry or spectral gradient acoustic reflectometry (SG-AR) at asymptomatic visits. DESIGN Three nurses were taught to perform examinations with tympanometry and SG-AR. Pneumati...

Abstract: The minimum error entropy (MEE) algorithm is known to be superior in signal processing applications under impulsive noise. In this paper, based on the analysis of behavior of the optimum weight and the properties of robustness against impulsive noise, a normalized version of the MEE algorithm is proposed. The step size of the MEE algorithm is normalized with the power of input entropy...