6 ORIGINAL PAPERS 7 ABBREVIATIONS 8 INTRODUCTION 9 Presentation 9 History 11 Cochlear anatomy 12 Cochlear physiology 14 Cochlear innervation 16 The sensory auditory systems 19 The spiral ganglion 21 Specific characteristics of the human spiral ganglion 23 Tight and gap junctions 27 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDIES 29 MATERIAL AND METHODS 30 RESULTS 36 Preservation 36 Light microscopic studies and TEM ...

Let g(n) denote the minimum number of edges of a maximal nontraceable graph of order n. Dudek, Katona and Wojda (2003) showed that g(n) ≥ d3n−2 2 e−2 for n ≥ 20 and g(n) ≤ d3n−2 2 e for n ≥ 54 as well as for n ∈ I = {22, 23, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51}. We show that g(n) = d3n−2 2 e for n ≥ 54 as well as for n ∈ I ∪ {12, 13} and we determine g(n) for n ≤ 9.

1 2 3 4 5 Warren G. Hill and Weiqun Yu 6 7 8 Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, 9 Boston, MA02215 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Running head: Ketamine causes epithelial transition in urothelium 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 *Address for correspondence: 46 47 RN349, 99 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA022...

Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1), the main thrombin receptor on vascular cells, plays a key role in platelet activation. We examined the range of PAR-1 expression on platelets, obtained twice, 1 week apart, from 100 healthy subjects and found a 2-fold interindividual variation in receptor numbers (95% CI = 858-1700). Because PAR-1 density was stable with time (r(2) = 76%, P <.001), we soug...

Most of the works dealing with the description of dynamic networks have been concerned with the in-depth study of specific real-world dynamic graphs. The case of contact or proximity networks between individuals, measured via electronic sensors or bluetooth cellphones for instance, has received much attention [8, 9, 11, 46, 51]. Other cases include P2P exchange networks [19, 31, 32], the intern...

ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2001 A GOOD DEAL OF EVIDENCE suggests that driver inattention is a major cause of motor-vehicle crashes. When drivers do not attend to critical features of the driving environment, they cannot respond in a timely manner to threats. One way to alert drivers to the presence of potential threats is the use of flashing yellow warning beacons. However, this type of signal does not...

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