Abstract In this case report, osteopathic manipulative treatment restored hearing to an 8-year-old female suffering from conductive loss. Numerous factors can result in children and adolescents, mild or greater loss occurs with a prevalence of 3.1%.1 Current literature focuses on due middle ear effusion (MEE).This report examines presumed have permanent without MEE after traumatic ATV accident....

Testing linear combinations of normal group means with unequal variances and possibly unequal samples sizes using a t-statistic is a well known problem for which the effective degrees of freedom are unknown. ? and ? set forth their approximations based on the ratio of combinations of fourth moments, and their methodology remains the de facto standard. We propose a new approach that extends thei...

Velar lateral sounds are rare and their acoustics contextual effects understudied. Positional variants of velar laterals also rarely reported. This paper documents a previously unknown allophony pattern the in Mee (Trans New Guinea; Indonesia), based on an elicitation study with two speakers controlled set recordings from one speakers. Our main dataset included carrier phrase words lateral, rep...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of nine predictive equations for calculating energy expenditure in severely burned adult subjects. The selected equations have been reported as commonly used or determined to be the most accurate. This prospective, observational study was conducted on adult subjects admitted between October 2007 and July 2010 with ≥ 20% TBSA full-thickness ...