Speech Transmission Index (STI) is a metric ranging between 0 and 1 predicting the speech intelligibility when speech is passed through a transmission channel, defined in the IEC 60268-16 standard 1.

The function of the thymus in human adults is unclear, and routine removal of the thymus is performed in a variety of surgical procedures. We hypothesized that the adult thymus is needed to sustain ...

Introduction: Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is one of the most common types of dementia. Naoxin'an capsule (NXA), a traditional Chinese medicine compound, has been used to treat VCI for a long ...

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has elicited increasing attention in morphological surface studies due to its stability and sensitivity to neurodegenerative processes, particularly in ...

Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China International Joint Research Center of Green Energy Chemical Engineering, East China ...

Circadian rhythms serve as endogenous clocks that molecularly support the daily occurring oscillations of physiology and ensuing behavior (Brown et al., 2019; Cahill, 2002; Frøland Steindal and ...

SEPIA is a tool providing a graphical user interface to build data processing pipeline of quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) in Matlab. The current GUI version is built to access the following ...

Recent advances in computer hardware and algorithms are spawning an explosive growth in the use of computer-based systems aimed at analyzing and ultimately correlating large amounts of experimental ...

All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the NIH and approved by the IACUC at Harvard Medical School. For cranial window implant surgery the mouse was anesthetized ...

Middle ear ossicles are critical for audition and rarely preserved in fossils. Based on microcomputed tomography images, our comparative 3D shape analysis of Neandertal ossicles shows striking shape ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating motor neuron disease, caused by decreased levels of the ubiquitous survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Despite the well-characterized role of SMN in pre ...