The auditory canal is the part of the ear hole that can easily be seen when looking at an ear up-close. The sound waves pass through the auditory canal and reach the tympanic membrane, better known as the eardrum. Just like when a drum is hit by a drumstick, the thin sheet of ...
favor increased size. On the medial surface of each tonsil are 12–15 orifices of the narrow tonsilar crypts lined with stratified squamous epithelium with invading lymphocytes. Behind these are germinal centers, generating lymphocytes. The tonsils are part of the defense system of the upper airway...
Are the three branches of government – the executive, legislative and judiciary independent of each other? In 2012, the AG was given the power to issue “certificates of cooperation”. Those who have been sentenced to death will be spared death if they receive such certificates. The judiciary...
1b). For example, the saliva had among the highest median alpha diversities of operational taxonomic units (OTUs, roughly species level classification, see http://hmpdacc.org/HMQCP), but one of the lowest beta diversities—so although each individual’s saliva was ecologically rich, members of...
the original sequence with a QuikChange II Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA), according to the manufacturer’s method. The following primers that are specific to each mutant were used: 5ʹ-CAAAAGCAAGAAAGTTCTTTTGAGAAGTTGCCAGATG-3’ (forward) and 5...
Bonephones account for this. Most feature a strap behind the head and pads that vibrate over each ear. The pads are shaped to fit securely over the user’s ears and prevent the device from sliding off. When the pads are rubbed on the user’s skin, the sound goes undistorted to the br...
The SLC2 genes code for a family of GLUT proteins that are part of the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) of membrane transporters. Crystal structures hav
Administration of the AuSpinal takes approximately 15 min per hand. To establish a scoring paradigm, each task was divided into 3–6 subcomponents on the basis of an analysis of the critical steps that are involved in successful task performance. A unique aspect of the scoring system was that...
from the front of their head to the rear on each side (travelling a ~ 180° angle). Therefore, the position of each antenna tip was best described using polar coordinates, i.e. by a radius (r) and an angle (θ) with the center being the antenna base (Fig.1B). The radius ...
about 45,000 persons each year [4]. Excessive ambient noise, aging populations, exposure to ototoxic drugs, and the inheritance of genetic mutations are believed to contribute to the prevalence of hearing and balance disorders. Understanding how environmental and genetic factors directly impact the ...