performing cochlear implantation in patients with inner ear malformation has always been a matter of dispute. this study was designed to analyze the operative findings,complications, and postoperative performance of patients with inner ear anomalies who underwent cochlear implantation. six patients with inner ear malformations underwent implantation in our academic tertiary referral center from...

To date, nearly all efforts in the field of accidental explosion consequence determination have been aimed at the quantification of the effects of a Hazard Division (HD) 1.1 event. Little attention has been paid to the consequences of the ignition of stacks of Hazard Division 1.2 ammunition. In 1989, NATO AC/258 (Group of Experts on the Safety Aspects of Transportation and Storage of Military A...

Physicians and nurses at a single hospital were surveyed on which risk factors were most important in deciding to order Clostridium difficile diagnostic testing. Disagreement between physicians and nurses on the relative importance of several of the risk factors warrants further investigation.

We report on preliminary work in the application of lowlevel visual motion cues to identify potential hazards during on-road driving. In conjunction with a clinical study of hazard perception in older age drivers, we consider the detection of a range of hazardous scenarios identified as particularly challenging for older drivers in video sequences used in the clinical study. Central to our appr...