Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
...external controldevice used to tune in the desired frequencies and tune out unwanted sounds andnoise. Changes in the settings would be relayed to the fully implanted hearingdevice remotely. Further development depends on future funding, said Spindel. Another advantage of the new magnetic hearing device is elim...Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound
...dvantage of this inability to localize narrow-band frequencies inresearch designed to learn how the brain processes and perceives sound. "We know that sound is recorded in the firing pattern of neurons in the auditorycortex---the part of the brain that processes electrical signals generated inthe inner ear," M......lepsy." Normal brain waves occur at characteristic frequencies that underpin variousbrain functions. One well-known rhythm of about 10 cycles per second, the alphawave, is associated with relaxation, while a slower wave of 4 to 7 cycles persecond, the theta wave, seems to be important in spatial learning. In ep...Biologically inspired electronics leads to higher fidelity
...formation, from the bandwidth ofinterest to higher frequencies where it can be filtered out. The next step, according to Mar, is to take the theoretical results of thisinvestigation and begin to apply it in actual devices to bring higher fidelityinto a new generation of biologically inspired electronics.......Heand a colleague have discovered that the natural frequencies of vibration of atapped drum lid increase as the pressure inside the drum increases (2pEA4). Dipen Sinha of Los Alamos ( sinha@lanl.gov ) will describe several noninvasivetechniques for characterizing the fluid contents inside sealed containers whi...Improving burn diagnosis and insights into perfect pitch at acoustics press conference
... and a colleague have discovered that the natural frequencies of vibration of a tapped drum lid increase as the pressure inside the drum increases. He will present experimental evidence and plans to incorporate this system in a simple handheld device. ELEMENTS OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICAN MUSIC IN JAZZ ......abilities in light of a fixed number, 100, natural frequencies dont share a common norm. Still, the authors pre...luate a greater number of statistical averages and frequencies presented as evidence, and citizens in a growing number of democracies must intelligently evaluate t...New technology tested at Stanford offers unique view inside small intestines
...per second. The capsule transmits images via radio frequencies to a Walkman-sized device worn on a belt along with a battery pack. Stanford's second patient to test the device, Leland McGraw, 77, swallowed the camera without a hitch. "I didn't feel it," he commented after it went down, adding that the receivers ...Alcohol researchers find genetic locus of human brain wave
...trong evidence for an association between beta EEG frequencies and a cluster of genes located on chromosome 4. In 1998, COGA identified a "hot spot" for a possible alcoholism-related gene on chromosome 4 from a whole-genome scan of families with high alcoholism prevalence. At the same time, NIAAA's Laboratory o...Ultrasound senses 'feel' of breast lesions
...ightingale said might require different ultrasound frequencies and different transducers, is still in the future. "Right now, we're focusing on the breast," she said....Gene linked to testicular cancer
...o be associated with testicular cancer at very low frequencies (10 percent or lower). This is the first study to establish a high level correlation between a gene and seminoma," Lin said. Although hiwi is the first gene known to be highly correlated to seminoma, scientists are close to identifying other genes ...New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab
...mals using different kinds of drugs and ultrasound frequencies before trials on humans could begin, a prospect that is still several years away. Beverly Roeder, a veterinarian and BYU professor of integrative biology, helped develop the procedure to do this study on tumors in rats. John Carmen, a master's studen...For determining protein structures, a new method boosts precision and speed in high-dimensional NMR
... multiple frequency dimensions, in which resonance frequencies are measured and correlated. According to Szyper..., the accuracy of the measurement of the resonance frequencies obtained by these long measurement times still is not very high. Szyperski's method, called GFT NMR...Laser technique able to detect developing cavities
...his team directed near-infrared light at different frequencies towards human teeth. The light, upon penetrating a... infrared radiation that revealed cavities. Higher frequencies worked best to reveal defects near the surface of a tooth, while lower frequencies uncovered problem...Echinacea not effective in treating colds in children
...ifferent echinacea formulations, doses, and dosing frequencies are needed to delineate any possible role for this herb in treating colds in young patients," the authors conclude....'Paper of the year' winner announced
...groups: the differences that exist are in relative frequencies only. The methodological lesson is that for genetic risk assessment it follows that investigators can use standard epidemiological study designs, provided self-reported ethnic background is taken into account: for such risk assessment one should not ...Pioneering implants for deaf people
...is problem because nerves corresponding to audible frequencies are spread along the length of the cochlea. By stimulating different points on the cochlea it is possible to activate eight or more channels- enough to understand speech over the phone. ABIs, on the other hand, tend to stimulate only a single chann...UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
...m many frequencies, premies are exposed to all the frequencies of the sounds in the nursery. She is interested in finding out how this added exposure, combined with the loss of the mother's voice, might influence the premies' development....Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...tem, which vibrates the ground and records the new frequencies generated by buried landmines (1aPAb1, Dimitri Donskoy, Stevens Institute of Technology, ddonskoy@stevens.edu); landmine detection using time-reversed acoustics, which locates mines by aiming sound waves at the ground and generating reversed versions...American genetic abnormality also discovered in the Netherlands
...ady starts to deteriorate at a young age. The high frequencies are damaged first and later the middle and low frequencies. The clinical picture of the Dutch family was worse than that described in the literature. Kemperman carried out gene matching research to identify the gene concerned. Although he did not fin...