Introduction More than 50,000 people in Germany use a cochlear implant (CI). Potentially, revision surgery may become necessary any patient due to technical defect, medical or other reasons. The aim of the present study is analyze reasons leading CI reimplantation and calculate cumulative survival rate.

The study was carried out with the objectives of determining stratification, geotechnical index properties soils in part Port Harcourt city and Obio/Akpor local Government Area, Rivers state. Field Exploration laboratory studies samples were obtained from 0-20.25m deep. Subsurface soil profiles delineated followed by determination their mechanical properties, including Atterberg limits, particl...

Introduction: The use of the latter is available, usually on a paid basis. In practice, five wing indices are most often used to discriminate wings: Ci, Disc.sh., Dbi, Ri, Pci. Due peculiarity structure wings, Ri and especially Disc.sh. determined with significant errors (Std.Err.), which reduces reliability classification as whole. goal work: authors set out find small number identification th...

Music-induced brain activity modulations in areas involved in emotion regulation may be useful in achieving therapeutic outcomes. Clinical applications of music may involve prolonged or repeated exposures to music. However, the variability of the observed brain activity patterns in repeated exposures to music is not well understood. We hypothesized that multiple exposures to the same music woul...

The Consistency Index and the Ratio of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) were designed to measure ratio inconsistent judgments among pairwise comparisons (PCs), which have been principal indices for past four decades. Definitions inconsistency measures PCs yet be established, however, because difficulty in quantifying subjectivity judgments. Therefore, an empirical review that can take such subj...

Both song and color patterns in birds are thought to evolve rapidly and exhibit high levels of homoplasy, yet few previous studies have compared the evolution of these traits systematically using the same taxa. Here we reconstruct the evolution of song in the New World orioles (Icterus) and compare patterns of vocal evolution to previously reconstructed patterns of change in plumage evolution i...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...