Successful management of patients with chronic tinnitus is an important health issue. One of the tinnitus management strategies used at our Tinnitus Center is a combination of tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) with physiotherapy and psychological management [called modified TRT (MTRT)]. We have used this type of management for over a decade and have described the protocol in detail elsewhere. I...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Correspondence To the editor: We read the article by Kim et al. [1] with great interest. Since tinnitus is common among otological patients and serious if untreated , the comparative study on different sounds in relieving tinnitus is relevant. The informatio...

The evolutionary history of certain species such as polyploids are modeled by a generalization of phylogenetic trees called multi-labeled phylogenetic trees, or MUL trees for short. One problem that relates to inferring a MUL tree is how to construct the smallest possible MUL tree that is consistent with a given set of rooted triplets, or SMRT problem for short. This problem is NP-hard. There i...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic effect of three different types of sounds on tinnitus patients undergoing tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT). METHODS This is a single-institution retrospective study, performed in one tertiary otological referral center. Thirty-eight adults with subjective idiopathic tinnitus who were followed for at least 9 weeks were enrol...

Due to its portability and popularity for Internet applications, Java has become one of the major programming languages. The similar syntax inherited from the C language and the pure object orientated features, compared to the non-pure object-oriented C++ language, have caused Java to be a good candidate as a tool in designing object oriented systems, especially in database servers. However, th...

a watershed management program is usually based on the results of watershed modeling. accurate modeling results are decided by the appropriate parameters and input data. precipitation is the most important input for watershed modeling. precipitation characteristics usually exhibit significant spatial variation, even within small watersheds. therefore, properly describing the spatial variation o...