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352. Assessment of Families from the Deaf Community

Author

Nancy Sculerati, John Thomas Roland, and Ilene D. Miner

Subjects
Medical education, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, General Neuroscience, Deafness, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pedigree, Hospitals, Urban, History and Philosophy of Science, Child, Preschool, Humans, Family, New York City, Community Health Services, Deaf community, Psychology
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1991
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353. Complications of Chemotherapy

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Sandra Shubel, Robert Sofferman, Thomas Roland, and Steven M. Gruberg

Subjects
Central nervous system disease, Cancer Research, Chemotherapy, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Oncology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Toxicity, medicine, Regional perfusion, medicine.disease, business
Published
1999
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355. Cochlear Implantation in Prelingually Deafened Adolescents.

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Zeitler, Daniel M., Anwar, Abbas, Green, Janet E., Babb, James S., Friedmann, David R., Thomas Roland Jr, J., and Waltzman, Susan B.

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of cochlear implantation (CI) in prelingually deafened adolescent children and to evaluate predictive variables for successful outcomes. Design: Retrospective medical record review. Participants: Children aged 10 to 17 years with prelingual hearing loss (mean length of deafness, 11.5 years) who received a unilateral CI (mean age at CI, 12.9 years). Intervention: Unilateral CI. Main Outcome Measures: Standard speech perception testing (Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant [CNC] monosyllabic word test and Hearing in Noise [HINT] sentence test) was performed preoperatively, 1 year postoperatively (year 1), and at the last follow-up/end of the study (EOS). Results: There was a highly significant improvement in speech perception scores for both HINT sentence and CNC word testing from the preoperative testing to year 1 (mean change score, 51.10% and 32.23%, respectively; P<.001) and from the preoperative testing to EOS (mean change score, 60.02% and 38.73%, respectively; P<.001), with a significantly greater increase during the first year (P<.001). In addition, there was a highly significant correlation between improvements in performance scores on the CNC word and HINT sentence speech perception tests and both age at CI and length of deafness at the year 1 testing (P<.009) but not from the year 1 testing to EOS testing. Adolescents with progressive deafness and those using oral communication before CI performed significantly better than age-matched peers. Conclusions: Adolescents with prelingual deafness undergoing unilateral CI show significant improvement in objective hearing outcome measures. Patients with shorter lengths of deafness and earlier age at CI tend to outperform their peers. In addition, patients with progressive deafness and those using oral communication have significantly better objective outcomes than their peers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2012
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360. Hearing Preservation in Vestibular Schwannoma Radiosurgery.

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Berger, Assaf, Alzate, Juan Diego, Bernstein, Kenneth, Mullen, Reed, McMenomey, Sean, Friedmann, David, Smouha, Eric, Sulman, Erik, S Silverman, Joshua., Thomas Roland, J., Golfinos, John G., and Kondziolka, Douglas

Subjects
STEREOTACTIC radiosurgery, RADIOSURGERY, CEREBRAL arteriovenous malformations, HEARING disorders, RADIATION dosimetry, ACOUSTIC neuroma
Abstract

Background: Our aim was to evaluate hearing outcomes in vestibular schwannoma (VS) patients treated by stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in the modern era of cochlear-dose restriction, providing information about patient and tumor characteristics, radiosurgery dosimetry, and effects on functional preservation. Methods: During the years 2013-2018, 353 patients underwent Gamma-knife SRS for VS at our institution. We followed 175 VS patients with pre-SRS serviceable hearing (Gardner-Robertson Score, GR 1 and 2) and at least 3 years of follow-up. Volumetric and dosimetry data were collected at SRS and 6 months later, Biological Effective Dose (BED), integral doses (ID) of total and intra-canalicular (IC) tumor components, cochlear doses and hearing outcomes. Results: Mean age was 56 years and 74 (42%) had baseline GR of 2. The majority of cases were Koos 2 (47%), and 15% were Koos 3-4. Mean cochlear dose was 3.5 Gy. Overall, median time to hearing deterioration of at least 1 level in the GR scale was 31 months (95% CI 23,42), with 72% keeping their baseline GR level in the 1st year, 55% in the 2nd year, and 46% in the 3rd year. In a multivariable analysis, the risk for hearing deterioration at any time point was significantly higher in patients with baseline GR of 2 (OR=2.24, p=0.025). Predictors of lower risk for hearing deterioration included tumor volume <0.43 cc (OR=0.43, p=0.027) and BED < 61 (OR=0.44, p=0.047). The risk for earlier hearing deterioration was significantly reduced by age< 58 (HR=0.54, p=0.009), mean cochlear dose <3.1 Gy, (HR=0.56, p=0.002) and BED <61 (HR=0.45, p=0.002), while it was higher when the tumor-free canal space was <0.041cc (HR=1.88, p=0.008). Median time to serviceable hearing loss (GR 3-4) was 38 months (95% CI, 26-46), with 77% hearing preservation in the 1st year, 62% in the 2nd year, and 50% in the 3rd year. Patients optimal for the best hearing outcomes would be younger than 58 with baseline GR of 1, free canal space 0.041 cc (diameter of 4.5 mm) and mean cochlear dose <3.1 Gy. For such patients, serviceable hearing preservation rates were 92% by 12 months and 81% by 2 years, staying stable for more than 5 years post-SRS. Conclusion: Hearing preservation after SRS for VS patients with pre-treatment serviceable hearing is correlated in the current era to the specific baseline GR score (1 or 2), age, cochlear dose and BED. Increased baseline tumor-free canal space correlates with better hearing outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022

361. Shortness of breath in a CF patient: not always the chest.

Author

Ainslie, Mark and Bright-Thomas, Roland

Abstract

The authors report the case of an adult with cystic fibrosis (CF) presenting with an episode of acute shortness of breath during an inpatient stay for infective exacerbation of C F. The treatment of bronchodilators and steroids for presumed airways disease was not effective and on review of the chest x-ray, it showed some evidence of pulmonary oedema. An echo showed a dilated left ventricle and globally reduced function. Serology came back positive for enterovirus which was in keeping with a diagnosis of myocarditis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011
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362. Did you enjoy the cold snap?

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Clark, Iain, Smith, Empse, Buchanan, Stuart, Barber, Alex, Phen, Sandra, Thomas, Roland, Rose, David, and Cameron, Ray

Published
2021

364. GUNSHIP II. AC ELECTRICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AC-130A FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM.

Author

AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLO, Thomas,Roland E., Von Tersch,George L., AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLO, Thomas,Roland E., and Von Tersch,George L.

Abstract

The critical requirement for electrical power in the AC-130A Fire Control System is a single phase, 115 volt, 400 hertz line. The most sensitive requirement on this line is the generation of the 26 volt reference signal; the aircraft AC system is an unacceptable source for this reference voltage line. A separate inverter can be used to supply the reference voltage line if all DC power supplies within the equipment are removed from the reference voltage line; however, the inverter must be carefully selected. (Bendix Model 32E-03-3-C inverter appears to be acceptable). The separate inverter for the reference voltage line proved successful on Surprise Package aircraft (A/C 490) and on standard Gunship aircraft (A/C 129). (Author)

Published
1970

365. INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS.

Author

ROME AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER GRIFFISS AFB N Y, Thomas,Roland E., ROME AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER GRIFFISS AFB N Y, and Thomas,Roland E.

Abstract

The purpose of the report is to present an evaluation of the various methods of building integrated circuit filters. A specific goal is to provide quantified bounds on the performance of such filters, especially those with high Q's. (Author)

Published
1969

366. Tevatron Run II combination of the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle

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Aaltonen, Timo Antero, Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich, Abbott, Braden Keim, Acharya, Bannanje Sripath, Adams, Mark Raymond, Adams, Todd, Agnew, James P, Alexeev, Guennadi D, Alkhazov, Georgiy D, Alton, Andrew K, Amerio, Silvia, Amidei, Dante E, Anastassov, Anton Iankov, Annovi, Alberto, Antos, Jaroslav, Apollinari, Giorgio, Appel, Jeffrey A, Arisawa, Tetsuo, Artikov, Akram Muzafarovich, Asaadi, Jonathan A, Ashmanskas, William Joseph, Askew, Andrew Warren, Atkins, Scott, Auerbach, Benjamin, Augsten, Kamil, Aurisano, Adam J, Aushev, Volodymyr, Aushev, Yegor, Avila, Carlos A, Azfar, Farrukh A, Badaud, Frederique, Badgett, William Farris, Bae, Taegil, Bagby, Linda F, Baldin, Boris, Bandurin, Dmitry V, Banerjee, Sunanda, Barbaro-Galtieri, Angela, Barberis, Emanuela, Baringer, Philip S, Barnes, Virgil E, Barnett, Bruce Arnold, Barria, Patrizia, Bartlett, JFrederick, Bartos, Pavol, Bassler, Ursula Rita, Bauce, Matteo, Bazterra, Victor, Bean, Alice L, Bedeschi, Franco, Begalli, Marcia, Behari, Satyajit, Bellantoni, Leo, Bellettini, Giorgio, Bellinger, James Nugent, Benjamin, Douglas P, Beretvas, Andrew F, Beri, Suman B, Bernardi, Gregorio, Bernhard, Ralf Patrick, Bertram, Iain A, Besancon, Marc, Beuselinck, Raymond, Bhat, Pushpalatha C, Bhatia, Sudeep, Bhatnagar, Vipin, Bhatti, Anwar Ahmad, Bland, Karen Renee, Blazey, Gerald Charles, Blessing, Susan K, Bloom, Kenneth A, Blumenfeld, Barry J, Bocci, Andrea, Bodek, Arie, Boehnlein, Amber S, Boline, Daniel Dooley, Boos, Edward E, Borissov, Guennadi, Bortoletto, Daniela, Borysova, Maryna, Boudreau, Joseph Francis, Boveia, Antonio, Brandt, Andrew, Brandt, Oleg, Brigliadori, Luca, Brochmann, Michelle, Brock, Raymond L, Bromberg, Carl Michael, Bross, Alan D, Brown, Duncan Paul, Brucken, Erik, Bu, Xue-Bing, Budagov, Ioulian A, Budd, Howard Scott, Buehler, Marc, Buescher, Volker, Bunichev, Viacheslav Yevgenyevich, Burdin, Sergey, Burkett, Kevin Alan, Busetto, Giovanni, Bussey, Peter John, Buszello, Claus Peter, Butti, Pierfrancesco, Buzatu, Adrian, Calamba, Aristotle, Camacho-Perez, Enrique, Camarda, Stefano, Campanelli, Mario, Canelli, Florencia, Carls, Benjamin, Carlsmith, Duncan L, Carosi, Roberto, Carrillo Moreno, Salvador, Casal Larana, Bruno, Casarsa, Massimo, Casey, Brendan Cameron Kieran, Castilla-Valdez, Heriberto, Castro, Andrea, Catastini, Pierluigi, Caughron, Seth Aaron, Cauz, Diego, Cavaliere, Viviana, Cerri, Alessandro, Cerrito, Lucio, Chakrabarti, Subhendu, Chan, Kwok Ming Leo, Chandra, Avdhesh, Chapon, Emilien, Chen, Guo, Chen, Yen-Chu, Chertok, Maxwell Benjamin, Chiarelli, Giorgio, Chlachidze, Gouram, Cho, Kihyeon, Cho, Sung-Woong, Choi, Suyong, Chokheli, Davit, Choudhary, Brajesh C, Cihangir, Selcuk, Claes, Daniel R, Clark, Allan Geoffrey, Clarke, Christopher Joseph, Clutter, Justace Randall, Convery, Mary Elizabeth, Conway, John Stephen, Cooke, Michael P, Cooper, William Edward, Corbo, Matteo, Corcoran, Marjorie D, Cordelli, Marco, Couderc, Fabrice, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Cox, Charles Alexander, Cox, David Jeremy, Cremonesi, Matteo, Cruz Alonso, Daniel, Cuevas Maestro, Javier, Culbertson, Raymond Lloyd, Cuth, Jakub, Cutts, David, Das, Amitabha, D'Ascenzo, Nicola, Datta, Mousumi, Davies, Gavin John, De Barbaro, Pawel, De Jong, Sijbrand Jan, De La Cruz-Burelo, Eduard, Deliot, Frederic, Demina, Regina, Demortier, Luc M, Deninno, Maria Maddalena, Denisov, Dmitri S, Denisov, Sergei P, D'Errico, Maria, Desai, Satish Vijay, Deterre, Cecile, DeVaughan, Kayle Otis, Devoto, Francesco, Di Canto, Angelo, Di Ruzza, Benedetto, Diehl, HThomas, Diesburg, Michael, Ding, Pengfei, Dittmann, Jay Richard, Dominguez, DAaron M, Donati, Simone, D'Onofrio, Monica, Dorigo, Mirco, Driutti, Anna, Drutskoy, Alexey, Dubey, Abhinav Kumar, Dudko, Lev V, Duperrin, Arnaud, Dutt, Suneel, Eads, Michael T, Ebina, Koji, Edgar, Ryan Christopher, Edmunds, Daniel L, Elagin, Andrey Lvovich, Ellison, John A, Elvira, VDaniel, Enari, Yuji, Erbacher, Robin D, Errede, Steven Michael, Esham, Benjamin, Evans, Harold G, Evdokimov, Anatoly V, Evdokimov, Valeri N, Farrington, Sinead Marie, Faure, Alexandre, Feng, Lei, Ferbel, Thomas, Fernández Ramos, Juan Pablo, Fiedler, Frank, Field, Richard D, Filthaut, Frank, Fisher, Wade Cameron, Fisk, HEugene, Flanagan, Gene U, Forrest, Robert David, Fortner, Michael R, Fox, Harald, Franc, Jiri, Franklin, Melissa EB, Freeman, John Christian, Frisch, Henry J, Fuess, Stuart C, Funakoshi, Yujiro, Galloni, Camilla, Garbincius, Peter H, Garcia-Bellido, Aran, Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Andres, Garfinkel, Arthur F, Garosi, Paola, Gavrilov, Vladimir B, Geng, Weigang, Gerber, Cecilia Elena, Gerberich, Heather Kay, Gerchtein, Elena A, Gershtein, Yuri S, Giagu, Stefano, Giakoumopoulou, Viktoria Athina, Gibson, Karen Ruth, Ginsburg, Camille Marie, Ginther, George E, Giokaris, Nikos D, Giromini, Paolo, Glagolev, Vladimir, Glenzinski, Douglas Andrew, Gogota, Olga, Gold, Michael S, Goldin, Daniel, Golossanov, Alexander, Golovanov, Georgy Anatolievich, Gomez, Gervasio, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim T, González López, Oscar, Gorelov, Igor V, Goshaw, Alfred T, Goulianos, Konstantin A, Gramellini, Elena, Grannis, Paul D, Greder, Sebastien, Greenlee, Herbert B, Grenier, Gerald Jean, Gris, Phillipe Luc, Grivaz, Jean-Francois, Grohsjean, Alexander, Grosso-Pilcher, Carla, Gruenendahl, Stefan, Gruenewald, Martin Werner, Guillemin, Thibault, Guimaraes Da Costa, Joao, Gutierrez, Gaston R, Gutierrez, Phillip, Hahn, Stephen R, Haley, Joseph Glenn Biddle, Han, Ji-Yeon, Han, Liang, Happacher, Fabio, Hara, Kazuhiko, Harder, Kristian, Hare, Matthew Frederick, Harel, Amnon, Harr, Robert Francis, Harrington-Taber, Timothy, Hatakeyama, Kenichi, Hauptman, John Michael, Hays, Christopher Paul, Hays, Jonathan M, Head, Tim, Hebbeker, Thomas, Hedin, David R, Hegab, Hatim, Heinrich, Joel G, Heinson, Ann, Heintz, Ulrich, Hensel, Carsten, Heredia-De La Cruz, Ivan, Herndon, Matthew Fairbanks, Herner, Kenneth Richard, Hesketh, Gavin G, Hildreth, Michael D, Hirosky, Robert James, Hoang, Trang, Hobbs, John D, Hocker, James Andrew, Hoeneisen, Bruce, Hogan, Julie, Hohlfeld, Mark, Holzbauer, Jenny Lyn, Hong, Ziqing, Hopkins, Walter Howard, Hou, Suen Ray, Howley, Ian James, Hubacek, Zdenek, Hughes, Richard Edward, Husemann, Ulrich, Hussein, Mohammad, Huston, Joey Walter, Hynek, Vlastislav, Iashvili, Ia, Ilchenko, Yuriy, Illingworth, Robert A, Introzzi, Gianluca, Iori, Maurizio, Ito, Albert S, Ivanov, Andrew Gennadievich, Jabeen, Shabnam, Jaffre, Michel J, James, Eric B, Jang, Dongwook, Jayasinghe, Ayesh, Jayatilaka, Bodhitha Anjalike, Jeon, Eun-Ju, Jeong, Min-Soo, Jesik, Richard L, Jiang, Peng, Jindariani, Sergo Robert, Johns, Kenneth Arthur, Johnson, Emily, Johnson, Marvin E, Jonckheere, Alan M, Jones, Matthew T, Jonsson, Per Martin, Joo, Kyung Kwang, Joshi, Jyoti, Jun, Soon Yung, Jung, Andreas Werner, Junk, Thomas R, Juste, Aurelio, Kajfasz, Eric, Kambeitz, Manuel, Kamon, Teruki, Karchin, Paul Edmund, Karmanov, Dmitriy Y, Kasmi, Azeddine, Kato, Yukihiro, Katsanos, Ioannis, Kaur, Manbir, Kehoe, Robert Leo Patrick, Kermiche, Smain, Ketchum, Wesley Robert, Keung, Justin Kien, Khalatyan, Norayr, Khanov, Alexander, Kharchilava, Avto, Kharzheev, Yuri N, Kilminster, Benjamin John, Kim, DongHee, Kim, Hyunsoo, Kim, Jieun, Kim, Min Jeong, Kim, Shin-Hong, Kim, Soo Bong, Kim, Young-Jin, Kim, Young-Kee, Kimura, Naoki, Kirby, Michael H, Kiselevich, Ivan Lvovich, Kohli, Jatinder M, Kondo, Kunitaka, Kong, Dae Jung, Konigsberg, Jacobo, Kotwal, Ashutosh Vijay, Kozelov, Alexander V, Kraus, James Alexander, Kreps, Michal, Kroll, IJoseph, Kruse, Mark Charles, Kuhr, Thomas, Kumar, Ashish, Kupco, Alexander, Kurata, Masakazu, Kurca, Tibor, Kuzmin, Valentin Alexandrovich, Laasanen, Alvin Toivo, Lammel, Stephan, Lammers, Sabine Wedam, Lancaster, Mark, Lannon, Kevin Patrick, Latino, Giuseppe, Lebrun, Patrice, Lee, Hyeon-Seung, Lee, Hyun Su, Lee, Jaison, Lee, Seh-Wook, Lee, William M, Lei, Xiaowen, Lellouch, Jeremie, Leo, Sabato, Leone, Sandra, Lewis, Jonathan D, Li, Dikai, Li, Hengne, Li, Liang, Li, Qi-Zhong, Lim, Jeong Ku, Limosani, Antonio, Lincoln, Donald W, Linnemann, James Thomas, Lipaev, Vladimir V, Lipeles, Elliot David, Lipton, Ronald J, Lister, Alison, Liu, Huanzhao, Liu, Qiuguang, Liu, Tiehui Ted, Liu, Yanwen, Lobodenko, Alexandre, Lockwitz, Sarah E, Loginov, Andrey Borisovich, Lokajicek, Milos, Lopes De Sa, Rafael, Lucchesi, Donatella, Lucà, Alessandra, Lueck, Jan, Lujan, Paul Joseph, Lukens, Patrick Thomas, Luna-Garcia, Rene, Lungu, Gheorghe, Lyon, Adam Leonard, Lys, Jeremy E, Lysak, Roman, Maciel, Arthur KA, Madar, Romain, Madrak, Robyn Leigh, Maestro, Paolo, Magana-Villalba, Ricardo, Malik, Sarah Alam, Malik, Sudhir, Malyshev, Vladimir L, Manca, Giulia, Manousakis-Katsikakis, Arkadios, Mansour, Jason, Marchese, Luigi, Margaroli, Fabrizio, Marino, Christopher Phillip, Martinez-Ortega, Jorge, Matera, Keith, Mattson, Mark Edward, Mazzacane, Anna, Mazzanti, Paolo, McCarthy, Robert L, Mcgivern, Carrie Lynne, McNulty, Ronan, Mehta, Andrew, Mehtala, Petteri, Meijer, Melvin M, Melnitchouk, Alexander S, Menezes, Diego D, Mercadante, Pedro Galli, Merkin, Mikhail M, Mesropian, Christina, Meyer, Arnd, Meyer, Jorg Manfred, Miao, Ting, Miconi, Florian, Mietlicki, David John, Mitra, Ankush, Miyake, Hideki, Moed, Shulamit, Moggi, Niccolo, Mondal, Naba K, Moon, Chang-Seong, Moore, Ronald Scott, Morello, Michael Joseph, Mukherjee, Aseet, Mulhearn, Michael James, Muller, Thomas, Murat, Pavel A, Mussini, Manuel, Nachtman, Jane Marie, Nagai, Yoshikazu, Naganoma, Junji, Nagy, Elemer, Nakano, Itsuo, Napier, Austin, Narain, Meenakshi, Nayyar, Ruchika, Neal, Homer A, Negret, Juan Pablo, Nett, Jason Michael, Neustroev, Petr V, Nguyen, Huong Thi, Nigmanov, Turgun S, Nodulman, Lawrence J, Noh, Seoyoung, Norniella Francisco, Olga, Nunnemann, Thomas P, Oakes, Louise Beth, Oh, Seog Hwan, Oh, Young-Do, Okusawa, Toru, Orava, Risto Olavi, Hernandez Orduna, Jose De Jesus, Ortolan, Lorenzo, Osman, Nicolas Ahmed, Pagliarone, Carmine Elvezio, Pal, Arnab, Palencia, Jose Enrique, Palni, Prabhakar, Papadimitriou, Vaia, Parashar, Neeti, Parihar, Vivek, Park, Sung Keun, Parker, William Chesluk, Partridge, Richard A, Parua, Nirmalya, Patwa, Abid, Pauletta, Giovanni, Paulini, Manfred, Paus, Christoph Maria Ernst, Penning, Bjoern, Perfilov, Maxim Anatolyevich, Peters, Reinhild Yvonne Fatima, Petridis, Konstantinos, Petrillo, Gianluca, Petroff, Pierre, Phillips, Thomas J, Piacentino, Giovanni M, Pianori, Elisabetta, Pilot, Justin Robert, Pitts, Kevin T, Plager, Charles, Pleier, Marc-Andre, Podstavkov, Vladimir M, Pondrom, Lee G, Popov, Alexey V, Poprocki, Stephen, Potamianos, Karolos Jozef, Pranko, Aliaksandr Pavlovich, Prewitt, Michelle, Price, Darren, Prokopenko, Nikolay N, Prokoshin, Fedor, Ptohos, Fotios K, Punzi, Giovanni, Qian, Jianming, Quadt, Arnulf, Quinn, Gene Breese, Ratoff, Peter N, Razumov, Ivan A, Redondo Fernández, Ignacio, Renton, Peter B, Rescigno, Marco, Rimondi, Franco, Ripp-Baudot, Isabelle, Ristori, Luciano, Rizatdinova, Flera, Robson, Aidan, Rodriguez, Tatiana Isabel, Rolli, Simona, Rominsky, Mandy Kathleen, Ronzani, Manfredi, Roser, Robert Martin, Rosner, Jonathan L, Ross, Anthony, Royon, Christophe, Rubinov, Paul Michael, Ruchti, Randal C, Ruffini, Fabrizio, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto, Russ, James S, Rusu, Vadim Liviu, Sajot, Gerard, Sakumoto, Willis Kazuo, Sakurai, Yuki, Sanchez-Hernandez, Alberto, Sanders, Michiel P, Santi, Lorenzo, Santos, Angelo Souza, Sato, Koji, Savage, David G, Saveliev, Valeri, Savitskyi, Mykola, Savoy-Navarro, Aurore, Sawyer, HLee, Scanlon, Timothy P, Schamberger, RDean, Scheglov, Yury A, Schellman, Heidi M, Schlabach, Philip, Schmidt, Eugene E, Schott, Matthias, Schwanenberger, Christian, Schwarz, Thomas A, Schwienhorst, Reinhard H, Scodellaro, Luca, Scuri, Fabrizio, Seidel, Sally C, Seiya, Yoshihiro, Sekaric, Jadranka, Semenov, Alexei, Severini, Horst, Sforza, Federico, Shabalina, Elizaveta K, Shalhout, Shalhout Zaki, Shary, Viacheslav V, Shaw, Savanna, Shchukin, Andrey A, Shears, Tara G, Shepard, Paul F, Shimojima, Makoto, Shkola, Oleg, Shochet, Melvyn J, Shreyber-Tecker, Irina, Simak, Vladislav J, Simonenko, Alexander V, Skubic, Patrick Louis, Slattery, Paul F, Sliwa, Krzysztof Jan, Smith, John Rodgers, Snider, Frederick Douglas, Snow, Gregory R, Snow, Joel Mark, Snyder, Scott Stuart, Soldner-Rembold, Stefan, Song, Hao, Sonnenschein, Lars, Sorin, Maria Veronica, Soustruznik, Karel, St Denis, Richard Dante, Stancari, Michelle Dawn, Stark, Jan, Stefaniuk, Nazar, Stentz, Dale James, Stoyanova, Dina A, Strauss, Michael G, Strologas, John, Sudo, Yuji, Sukhanov, Alexander I, Suslov, Igor M, Suter, Louise, Svoisky, Peter V, Takemasa, Ken-Ichi, Takeuchi, Yuji, Tang, Jian, Tecchio, Monica, Teng, Ping-Kun, Thom, Julia, Thomson, Evelyn Jean, Thukral, Vaikunth, Titov, Maxim, Toback, David A, Tokar, Stanislav, Tokmenin, Valeriy V, Tollefson, Kirsten Anne, Tomura, Tomonobu, Tonelli, Diego, Torre, Stefano, Torretta, Donatella, Totaro, Pierluigi, Trovato, Marco, Tsai, Yun-Tse, Tsybychev, Dmitri, Tuchming, Boris, Tully, Christopher George T, Ukegawa, Fumihiko, Uozumi, Satoru, Uvarov, Lev, Uvarov, Sergey L, Uzunyan, Sergey A, Van Kooten, Richard J, Van Leeuwen, Willem M, Varelas, Nikos, Varnes, Erich W, Vasilyev, Igor A, Vázquez-Valencia, Elsa Fabiola, Velev, Gueorgui, Vellidis, Konstantinos, Verkheev, Alexander Yurievich, Vernieri, Caterina, Vertogradov, Leonid S, Verzocchi, Marco, Vesterinen, Mika, Vidal Marono, Miguel, Vilanova, Didier, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocio, Vizán Garcia, Jesus Manuel, Vogel, Marcelo, Vokac, Petr, Volpi, Guido, Wagner, Peter, Wahl, Horst D, Wallny, Rainer S, Wang, Chen, Wang, Michael HLS, Wang, Song-Ming, Warchol, Jadwiga, Waters, David S, Watts, Gordon Thomas, Wayne, Mitchell R, Weichert, Jonas, Welty-Rieger, Leah Christine, Wester, William Carl, Whiteson, Daniel O, Wicklund, Arthur Barry, Wilbur, Scott, Williams, Hugh H, Williams, Mark Richard James, Wilson, Graham Wallace, Wilson, Jonathan Samuel, Wilson, Peter James, Winer, Brian L, Wittich, Peter, Wobisch, Markus, Wolbers, Stephen A, Wolfmeister, Homer, Wood, Darien Robert, Wright, Thomas Roland, Wu, Xin, Wu, Zhenbin, Wyatt, Terence R, Xie, Yunhe, Yamada, Ryuji, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Yamato, Daisuke, Yang, Siqi, Yang, Tingjun, Yang, Un-Ki, Yang, Yu Chul, Yao, Wei-Ming, Yasuda, Takahiro, Yatsunenko, Yuriy A, Ye, Wanyu, Ye, Zhenyu, Yeh, Gong Ping, Yi, Kai, Yifan, Xiang, Yin, Hang, Yip, Kin, Yoh, John, Yorita, Kohei, Yoshida, Takuo, Youn, Sungwoo, Yu, Geum Bong, Yu, Intae, Yu, Jiaming, Zanetti, Anna Maria, Zeng, Yu, Zennamo, Joseph, Zhao, Tianqi Gilbert, Zhou, Bing, Zhou, Chen, Zhu, Junjie, Zielinski, Marek, Zieminska, Daria, Zivkovic, Lidija, and Zucchelli, Stefano

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Drell-Yan process, electroweak interaction: mixing angle, gauge boson, Weinberg angle, Z0: hadroproduction, electroweak interaction: spontaneous symmetry breaking, 7. Clean energy, W: mass: measured, programming, anti-p p: colliding beams, muon: pair production, electron: pair production, DZERO, Z0: leptonic decay, anti-p p: scattering, CDF, angular distribution, Batavia TEVATRON Coll, asymmetry, experimental results
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Physical review / D 97(11), 112007 (2018). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.112007, Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced in the process $p\bar{p} → ℓ^+ ℓ^−$ + X through an intermediate γ∗/Z boson have an asymmetry in their angular distribution related to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak force and the associated mixing of its neutral gauge bosons. The CDF and D0 experiments have measured the effective-leptonic electroweak mixing parameter $sin^2 θ^{lept}_{eff}$ using electron and muon pairs selected from the full Tevatron proton-antiproton data sets collected in 2001-2011, corresponding to 9–10 fb$ ^{−1}$ of integrated luminosity. The combination of these measurements yields the most precise result from hadron colliders, $sin^2 θ^{lept}_{eff}$ = 0.23148±0.00033. This result is consistent with, and approaches in precision, the best measurements from electron-positron colliders. The standard model inference of the on-shell electroweak mixing parameter $sin^2 θ_W$, or equivalently the W-boson mass M$_W$, using the zfitter software package yields $sin^2 θ_W$ = 0.22324±0.00033 or equivalently, M$_W$=80.367±0.017 GeV/c$^2$., Published by APS, Woodbury, NY

367. Impact of donor chemical design on charge recombination in donor-acceptor oligomers

Author

Irene Burghardt, S. Ludwigs, Stéphane Méry, P. Eisenbrandtd, Adrian Ruff, Jérémie Léonard, Thomas Roland, Li Liu, Stefan Haacke, and P-O. Schwartz

Subjects
Organic solar cell, Absorption spectroscopy, Chemistry, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy, Charge (physics), Conjugated system, Photochemistry, Spectroscopy, Chemical design, Recombination
Abstract

Transient absorption spectroscopy is applied to study CT state recombination in a family of self-assembling conjugated D-A oligomers. It reveals that chemical design prolongs the CT state lifetime with benefits for photovoltaic cells.

368. Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

Author

Aaltonen, Timo Antero, Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich, Abbott, Braden Keim, Acharya, Bannanje Sripath, Adams, Mark Raymond, Adams, Todd, Agnew, James P, Alexeev, Guennadi D, Alkhazov, Georgiy D, Alton, Andrew K, Amerio, Silvia, Amidei, Dante E, Anastassov, Anton Iankov, Annovi, Alberto, Antos, Jaroslav, Apollinari, Giorgio, Appel, Jeffrey A, Arisawa, Tetsuo, Artikov, Akram Muzafarovich, Asaadi, Jonathan A, Ashmanskas, William Joseph, Askew, Andrew Warren, Atkins, Scott, Auerbach, Benjamin, Augsten, Kamil, Aurisano, Adam J, Aushev, Volodymyr, Aushev, Yegor, Avila, Carlos A, Azfar, Farrukh A, Badaud, Frederique, Badgett, William Farris, Bae, Taegil, Bagby, Linda F, Baldin, Boris, Bandurin, Dmitry V, Banerjee, Sunanda, Barbaro-Galtieri, Angela, Barberis, Emanuela, Baringer, Philip S, Barnes, Virgil E, Barnett, Bruce Arnold, Barria, Patrizia, Bartlett, JFrederick, Bartos, Pavol, Bassler, Ursula Rita, Bauce, Matteo, Bazterra, Victor, Bean, Alice L, Bedeschi, Franco, Begalli, Marcia, Behari, Satyajit, Bellantoni, Leo, Bellettini, Giorgio, Bellinger, James Nugent, Benjamin, Douglas P, Beretvas, Andrew F, Beri, Suman B, Bernardi, Gregorio, Bernhard, Ralf Patrick, Bertram, Iain A, Besancon, Marc, Beuselinck, Raymond, Bhat, Pushpalatha C, Bhatia, Sudeep, Bhatnagar, Vipin, Bhatti, Anwar Ahmad, Bland, Karen Renee, Blazey, Gerald Charles, Blessing, Susan K, Bloom, Kenneth A, Blumenfeld, Barry J, Bocci, Andrea, Bodek, Arie, Boehnlein, Amber S, Boline, Daniel Dooley, Boos, Edward E, Borissov, Guennadi, Bortoletto, Daniela, Borysova, Maryna, Boudreau, Joseph Francis, Boveia, Antonio, Brandt, Andrew, Brandt, Oleg, Brigliadori, Luca, Brochmann, Michelle, Brock, Raymond L, Bromberg, Carl Michael, Bross, Alan D, Brown, Duncan Paul, Brucken, Erik, Bu, Xue-Bing, Budagov, Ioulian A, Budd, Howard Scott, Buehler, Marc, Buescher, Volker, Bunichev, Viacheslav Yevgenyevich, Burdin, Sergey, Burkett, Kevin Alan, Busetto, Giovanni, Bussey, Peter John, Buszello, Claus Peter, Butti, Pierfrancesco, Buzatu, Adrian, Calamba, Aristotle, Camacho-Perez, Enrique, Camarda, Stefano, Campanelli, Mario, Canelli, Florencia, Carls, Benjamin, Carlsmith, Duncan L, Carosi, Roberto, Carrillo Moreno, Salvador, Casal Larana, Bruno, Casarsa, Massimo, Casey, Brendan Cameron Kieran, Castilla-Valdez, Heriberto, Castro, Andrea, Catastini, Pierluigi, Caughron, Seth Aaron, Cauz, Diego, Cavaliere, Viviana, Cerri, Alessandro, Cerrito, Lucio, Chakrabarti, Subhendu, Chan, Kwok Ming Leo, Chandra, Avdhesh, Chapelain, Antoine, Chapon, Emilien, Chen, Guo, Chen, Yen-Chu, Chertok, Maxwell Benjamin, Chiarelli, Giorgio, Chlachidze, Gouram, Cho, Kihyeon, Cho, Sung-Woong, Choi, Suyong, Chokheli, Davit, Choudhary, Brajesh C, Cihangir, Selcuk, Claes, Daniel R, Clark, Allan Geoffrey, Clarke, Christopher Joseph, Clutter, Justace Randall, Convery, Mary Elizabeth, Conway, John Stephen, Cooke, Michael P, Cooper, William Edward, Corbo, Matteo, Corcoran, Marjorie D, Cordelli, Marco, Couderc, Fabrice, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Cox, Charles Alexander, Cox, David Jeremy, Cremonesi, Matteo, Cruz Alonso, Daniel, Cuevas Maestro, Javier, Culbertson, Raymond Lloyd, Cuth, Jakub, Cutts, David, Das, Amitabha, D'Ascenzo, Nicola, Datta, Mousumi, Davies, Gavin John, De Barbaro, Pawel, De Jong, Sijbrand Jan, De La Cruz-Burelo, Eduard, Deliot, Frederic, Demina, Regina, Demortier, Luc M, Deninno, Maria Maddalena, Denisov, Dmitri S, Denisov, Sergei P, D'Errico, Maria, Desai, Satish Vijay, Deterre, Cecile, DeVaughan, Kayle Otis, Devoto, Francesco, Di Canto, Angelo, Di Ruzza, Benedetto, Diehl, HThomas, Diesburg, Michael, Ding, Pengfei, Dittmann, Jay Richard, Dominguez, DAaron M, Donati, Simone, D'Onofrio, Monica, Dorigo, Mirco, Driutti, Anna, Drutskoy, Alexey, Dubey, Abhinav Kumar, Dudko, Lev V, Duperrin, Arnaud, Dutt, Suneel, Eads, Michael T, Ebina, Koji, Edgar, Ryan Christopher, Edmunds, Daniel L, Elagin, Andrey Lvovich, Ellison, John A, Elvira, VDaniel, Enari, Yuji, Erbacher, Robin D, Errede, Steven Michael, Esham, Benjamin, Evans, Harold G, Evdokimov, Anatoly V, Evdokimov, Valeri N, Farrington, Sinead Marie, Faure, Alexandre, Feng, Lei, Ferbel, Thomas, Fernández Ramos, Juan Pablo, Fiedler, Frank, Field, Richard D, Filthaut, Frank, Fisher, Wade Cameron, Fisk, HEugene, Flanagan, Gene U, Forrest, Robert David, Fortner, Michael R, Fox, Harald, Franc, Jiri, Franklin, Melissa EB, Freeman, John Christian, Frisch, Henry J, Fuess, Stuart C, Funakoshi, Yujiro, Galloni, Camilla, Garbincius, Peter H, Garcia-Bellido, Aran, Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Andres, Garfinkel, Arthur F, Garosi, Paola, Gavrilov, Vladimir B, Geng, Weigang, Gerber, Cecilia Elena, Gerberich, Heather Kay, Gerchtein, Elena A, Gershtein, Yuri S, Giagu, Stefano, Giakoumopoulou, Viktoria Athina, Gibson, Karen Ruth, Ginsburg, Camille Marie, Ginther, George E, Giokaris, Nikos D, Giromini, Paolo, Glagolev, Vladimir, Glenzinski, Douglas Andrew, Gogota, Olga, Gold, Michael S, Goldin, Daniel, Golossanov, Alexander, Golovanov, Georgy Anatolievich, Gomez, Gervasio, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim T, González López, Oscar, Gorelov, Igor V, Goshaw, Alfred T, Goulianos, Konstantin A, Gramellini, Elena, Grannis, Paul D, Greder, Sebastien, Greenlee, Herbert B, Grenier, Gerald Jean, Gris, Phillipe Luc, Grivaz, Jean-Francois, Grohsjean, Alexander, Grosso-Pilcher, Carla, Gruenendahl, Stefan, Gruenewald, Martin Werner, Guillemin, Thibault, Guimaraes Da Costa, Joao, Gutierrez, Gaston R, Gutierrez, Phillip, Hahn, Stephen R, Haley, Joseph Glenn Biddle, Han, Ji-Yeon, Han, Liang, Happacher, Fabio, Hara, Kazuhiko, Harder, Kristian, Hare, Matthew Frederick, Harel, Amnon, Harr, Robert Francis, Harrington-Taber, Timothy, Hatakeyama, Kenichi, Hauptman, John Michael, Hays, Christopher Paul, Hays, Jonathan M, Head, Tim, Hebbeker, Thomas, Hedin, David R, Hegab, Hatim, Heinrich, Joel G, Heinson, Ann, Heintz, Ulrich, Hensel, Carsten, Heredia-De La Cruz, Ivan, Herndon, Matthew Fairbanks, Herner, Kenneth Richard, Hesketh, Gavin G, Hildreth, Michael D, Hirosky, Robert James, Hoang, Trang, Hobbs, John D, Hocker, James Andrew, Hoeneisen, Bruce, Hogan, Julie, Hohlfeld, Mark, Holzbauer, Jenny Lyn, Hong, Ziqing, Hopkins, Walter Howard, Hou, Suen Ray, Howley, Ian James, Hubacek, Zdenek, Hughes, Richard Edward, Husemann, Ulrich, Hussein, Mohammad, Huston, Joey Walter, Hynek, Vlastislav, Iashvili, Ia, Ilchenko, Yuriy, Illingworth, Robert A, Introzzi, Gianluca, Iori, Maurizio, Ito, Albert S, Ivanov, Andrew Gennadievich, Jabeen, Shabnam, Jaffre, Michel J, James, Eric B, Jang, Dongwook, Jayasinghe, Ayesh, Jayatilaka, Bodhitha Anjalike, Jeon, Eun-Ju, Jeong, Min-Soo, Jesik, Richard L, Jiang, Peng, Jindariani, Sergo Robert, Johns, Kenneth Arthur, Johnson, Emily, Johnson, Marvin E, Jonckheere, Alan M, Jones, Matthew T, Jonsson, Per Martin, Joo, Kyung Kwang, Joshi, Jyoti, Jun, Soon Yung, Jung, Andreas Werner, Junk, Thomas R, Juste, Aurelio, Kajfasz, Eric, Kambeitz, Manuel, Kamon, Teruki, Karchin, Paul Edmund, Karmanov, Dmitriy Y, Kasmi, Azeddine, Kato, Yukihiro, Katsanos, Ioannis, Kaur, Manbir, Kehoe, Robert Leo Patrick, Kermiche, Smain, Ketchum, Wesley Robert, Keung, Justin Kien, Khalatyan, Norayr, Khanov, Alexander, Kharchilava, Avto, Kharzheev, Yuri N, Kilminster, Benjamin John, Kim, DongHee, Kim, Hyunsoo, Kim, Jieun, Kim, Min Jeong, Kim, Shin-Hong, Kim, Soo Bong, Kim, Young-Jin, Kim, Young-Kee, Kimura, Naoki, Kirby, Michael H, Kiselevich, Ivan Lvovich, Kohli, Jatinder M, Kondo, Kunitaka, Kong, Dae Jung, Konigsberg, Jacobo, Kotwal, Ashutosh Vijay, Kozelov, Alexander V, Kraus, James Alexander, Kreps, Michal, Kroll, IJoseph, Kruse, Mark Charles, Kuhr, Thomas, Kumar, Ashish, Kupco, Alexander, Kurata, Masakazu, Kurca, Tibor, Kuzmin, Valentin Alexandrovich, Laasanen, Alvin Toivo, Lammel, Stephan, Lammers, Sabine Wedam, Lancaster, Mark, Lannon, Kevin Patrick, Latino, Giuseppe, Lebrun, Patrice, Lee, Hyeon-Seung, Lee, Hyun Su, Lee, Jaison, Lee, Seh-Wook, Lee, William M, Lei, Xiaowen, Lellouch, Jeremie, Leo, Sabato, Leone, Sandra, Lewis, Jonathan D, Li, Dikai, Li, Hengne, Li, Liang, Li, Qi-Zhong, Lim, Jeong Ku, Limosani, Antonio, Lincoln, Donald W, Linnemann, James Thomas, Lipaev, Vladimir V, Lipeles, Elliot David, Lipton, Ronald J, Lister, Alison, Liu, Huanzhao, Liu, Qiuguang, Liu, Tiehui Ted, Liu, Yanwen, Lobodenko, Alexandre, Lockwitz, Sarah E, Loginov, Andrey Borisovich, Lokajicek, Milos, Lopes De Sa, Rafael, Lucchesi, Donatella, Lucà, Alessandra, Lueck, Jan, Lujan, Paul Joseph, Lukens, Patrick Thomas, Luna-Garcia, Rene, Lungu, Gheorghe, Lyon, Adam Leonard, Lys, Jeremy E, Lysak, Roman, Maciel, Arthur KA, Madar, Romain, Madrak, Robyn Leigh, Maestro, Paolo, Magana-Villalba, Ricardo, Malik, Sarah Alam, Malik, Sudhir, Malyshev, Vladimir L, Manca, Giulia, Manousakis-Katsikakis, Arkadios, Mansour, Jason, Marchese, Luigi, Margaroli, Fabrizio, Marino, Christopher Phillip, Martinez-Ortega, Jorge, Matera, Keith, Mattson, Mark Edward, Mazzacane, Anna, Mazzanti, Paolo, McCarthy, Robert L, Mcgivern, Carrie Lynne, McNulty, Ronan, Mehta, Andrew, Mehtala, Petteri, Meijer, Melvin M, Melnitchouk, Alexander S, Menezes, Diego D, Mercadante, Pedro Galli, Merkin, Mikhail M, Mesropian, Christina, Meyer, Arnd, Meyer, Jorg Manfred, Miao, Ting, Miconi, Florian, Mietlicki, David John, Mitra, Ankush, Miyake, Hideki, Moed, Shulamit, Moggi, Niccolo, Mondal, Naba K, Moon, Chang-Seong, Moore, Ronald Scott, Morello, Michael Joseph, Mukherjee, Aseet, Mulhearn, Michael James, Muller, Thomas, Murat, Pavel A, Mussini, Manuel, Nachtman, Jane Marie, Nagai, Yoshikazu, Naganoma, Junji, Nagy, Elemer, Nakano, Itsuo, Napier, Austin, Narain, Meenakshi, Nayyar, Ruchika, Neal, Homer A, Negret, Juan Pablo, Nett, Jason Michael, Neustroev, Petr V, Nguyen, Huong Thi, Nigmanov, Turgun S, Nodulman, Lawrence J, Noh, Seoyoung, Norniella Francisco, Olga, Nunnemann, Thomas P, Oakes, Louise Beth, Oh, Seog Hwan, Oh, Young-Do, Okusawa, Toru, Orava, Risto Olavi, Hernandez Orduna, Jose De Jesus, Ortolan, Lorenzo, Osman, Nicolas Ahmed, Pagliarone, Carmine Elvezio, Pal, Arnab, Palencia, Jose Enrique, Palni, Prabhakar, Papadimitriou, Vaia, Parashar, Neeti, Parihar, Vivek, Park, Sung Keun, Parker, William Chesluk, Partridge, Richard A, Parua, Nirmalya, Patwa, Abid, Pauletta, Giovanni, Paulini, Manfred, Paus, Christoph Maria Ernst, Penning, Bjoern, Perfilov, Maxim Anatolyevich, Peters, Reinhild Yvonne Fatima, Petridis, Konstantinos, Petrillo, Gianluca, Petroff, Pierre, Phillips, Thomas J, Piacentino, Giovanni M, Pianori, Elisabetta, Pilot, Justin Robert, Pitts, Kevin T, Plager, Charles, Pleier, Marc-Andre, Podstavkov, Vladimir M, Pondrom, Lee G, Popov, Alexey V, Poprocki, Stephen, Potamianos, Karolos Jozef, Pranko, Aliaksandr Pavlovich, Prewitt, Michelle, Price, Darren, Prokopenko, Nikolay N, Prokoshin, Fedor, Ptohos, Fotios K, Punzi, Giovanni, Qian, Jianming, Quadt, Arnulf, Quinn, Gene Breese, Ratoff, Peter N, Razumov, Ivan A, Redondo Fernández, Ignacio, Renton, Peter B, Rescigno, Marco, Rimondi, Franco, Ripp-Baudot, Isabelle, Ristori, Luciano, Rizatdinova, Flera, Robson, Aidan, Rodriguez, Tatiana Isabel, Rolli, Simona, Rominsky, Mandy Kathleen, Ronzani, Manfredi, Roser, Robert Martin, Rosner, Jonathan L, Ross, Anthony, Royon, Christophe, Rubinov, Paul Michael, Ruchti, Randal C, Ruffini, Fabrizio, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto, Russ, James S, Rusu, Vadim Liviu, Sajot, Gerard, Sakumoto, Willis Kazuo, Sakurai, Yuki, Sanchez-Hernandez, Alberto, Sanders, Michiel P, Santi, Lorenzo, Santos, Angelo Souza, Sato, Koji, Savage, David G, Saveliev, Valeri, Savitskyi, Mykola, Savoy-Navarro, Aurore, Sawyer, HLee, Scanlon, Timothy P, Schamberger, RDean, Scheglov, Yury A, Schellman, Heidi M, Schlabach, Philip, Schmidt, Eugene E, Schott, Matthias, Schwanenberger, Christian, Schwarz, Thomas A, Schwienhorst, Reinhard H, Scodellaro, Luca, Scuri, Fabrizio, Seidel, Sally C, Seiya, Yoshihiro, Sekaric, Jadranka, Semenov, Alexei, Severini, Horst, Sforza, Federico, Shabalina, Elizaveta K, Shalhout, Shalhout Zaki, Shary, Viacheslav V, Shaw, Savanna, Shchukin, Andrey A, Shears, Tara G, Shepard, Paul F, Shimojima, Makoto, Shkola, Oleg, Shochet, Melvyn J, Shreyber-Tecker, Irina, Simak, Vladislav J, Simonenko, Alexander V, Skubic, Patrick Louis, Slattery, Paul F, Sliwa, Krzysztof Jan, Smith, John Rodgers, Snider, Frederick Douglas, Snow, Gregory R, Snow, Joel Mark, Snyder, Scott Stuart, Soldner-Rembold, Stefan, Song, Hao, Sonnenschein, Lars, Sorin, Maria Veronica, Soustruznik, Karel, St Denis, Richard Dante, Stancari, Michelle Dawn, Stark, Jan, Stefaniuk, Nazar, Stentz, Dale James, Stoyanova, Dina A, Strauss, Michael G, Strologas, John, Sudo, Yuji, Sukhanov, Alexander I, Suslov, Igor M, Suter, Louise, Svoisky, Peter V, Takemasa, Ken-Ichi, Takeuchi, Yuji, Tang, Jian, Tecchio, Monica, Teng, Ping-Kun, Thom, Julia, Thomson, Evelyn Jean, Thukral, Vaikunth, Titov, Maxim, Toback, David A, Tokar, Stanislav, Tokmenin, Valeriy V, Tollefson, Kirsten Anne, Tomura, Tomonobu, Tonelli, Diego, Torre, Stefano, Torretta, Donatella, Totaro, Pierluigi, Trovato, Marco, Tsai, Yun-Tse, Tsybychev, Dmitri, Tuchming, Boris, Tully, Christopher George T, Ukegawa, Fumihiko, Uozumi, Satoru, Uvarov, Lev, Uvarov, Sergey L, Uzunyan, Sergey A, Van Kooten, Richard J, Van Leeuwen, Willem M, Varelas, Nikos, Varnes, Erich W, Vasilyev, Igor A, Vázquez-Valencia, Elsa Fabiola, Velev, Gueorgui, Vellidis, Konstantinos, Verkheev, Alexander Yurievich, Vernieri, Caterina, Vertogradov, Leonid S, Verzocchi, Marco, Vesterinen, Mika, Vidal Marono, Miguel, Vilanova, Didier, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocio, Vizán Garcia, Jesus Manuel, Vogel, Marcelo, Vokac, Petr, Volpi, Guido, Wagner, Peter, Wahl, Horst D, Wallny, Rainer S, Wang, Michael HLS, Wang, Song-Ming, Warchol, Jadwiga, Waters, David S, Watts, Gordon Thomas, Wayne, Mitchell R, Weichert, Jonas, Welty-Rieger, Leah Christine, Wester, William Carl, Whiteson, Daniel O, Wicklund, Arthur Barry, Wilbur, Scott, Williams, Hugh H, Williams, Mark Richard James, Wilson, Graham Wallace, Wilson, Jonathan Samuel, Wilson, Peter James, Winer, Brian L, Wittich, Peter, Wobisch, Markus, Wolbers, Stephen A, Wolfmeister, Homer, Wood, Darien Robert, Wright, Thomas Roland, Wu, Xin, Wu, Zhenbin, Wyatt, Terence R, Xie, Yunhe, Yamada, Ryuji, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Yamato, Daisuke, Yang, Siqi, Yang, Tingjun, Yang, Un-Ki, Yang, Yu Chul, Yao, Wei-Ming, Yasuda, Takahiro, Yatsunenko, Yuriy A, Ye, Wanyu, Ye, Zhenyu, Yeh, Gong Ping, Yi, Kai, Yin, Hang, Yip, Kin, Yoh, John, Yorita, Kohei, Yoshida, Takuo, Youn, Sungwoo, Yu, Geum Bong, Yu, Intae, Yu, Jiaming, Zanetti, Anna Maria, Zeng, Yu, Zennamo, Joseph, Zhao, Tianqi Gilbert, Zhou, Bing, Zhou, Chen, Zhu, Junjie, Zielinski, Marek, Zieminska, Daria, Zivkovic, Lidija, Zucchelli, Stefano, CDF Collaboration, and D0 Collaboration

Subjects
angular distribution: asymmetry, rapidity: difference, 1960 GeV-cms, kinematics, DZERO, anti-p p: scattering, CDF, Batavia TEVATRON Coll, top: pair production, 7. Clean energy, anti-p p: colliding beams, experimental results
Abstract

Physical review letters 120(4), 042001 (2018). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.042001, The CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have measured the asymmetry between yields of forward- and backward-produced top and antitop quarks based on their rapidity difference and the asymmetry between their decay leptons. These measurements use the full data sets collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s =1.96$ TeV. We report the results of combinations of the inclusive asymmetries and their differential dependencies on relevant kinematic quantities. The combined inclusive asymmetry is $A_{\mathrm{FB}}^{t\bar{t}} = 0.128 \pm 0.025$. The combined inclusive and differential asymmetries are consistent with recent standard model predictions., Published by APS, College Park, Md.

369. Self-organized growth of ordered functional nanostructures on templates

Author

Classen, Thomas Roland and Kern, Klaus

Abstract

In this thesis, the use of nanotemplates for steering the molecular self-organization at metallic surfaces is investigated. Nanotemplates are surfaces that exhibit a periodic variation of the adhesion energy on the nanometer scale. Preferential adsorption on low energy sites is utilized to effectively transfer the template structure to the overlayer of the deposited adsorbates. Surfaces with an anisotropic lattice geometry and self-organized alternating oxide and metallic stripes are exemplarily investigated as model for one-dimensional nanotemplates of different periodicities. Their effects on the adsorption of deposited organic molecules and on the formation of extended supramolecular architectures are studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and complementary experimental and theoretical techniques. The first part of the thesis deals with the growth of metal-organic coordination networks (MOCNs), a concept which has recently been transferred from 3D supramolecular chemistry to 2D surface grids. It is shown here for the first time, that it is possible to create surface supported 1D metal-organic coordination chains (MOCCs) using the Cu(110) surface as a nanotemplate, along with the same methods which are used to create 2D MOCNs. 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid (trimesic acid, TMA) is employed as organic linker molecule forming monodisperse and highly regular chains with Cu adatoms. The atomistic structure of the MOCCs is investigated in a combined experimental and theoretical approach, using STM, low energy electron diffraction (LEED), reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) and density functional theory (DFT). A detailed understanding of the MOCCs is reached and the possibility to generalize these results to other metal-carboxylate systems is explored by studying a different linker molecule, 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (terephthalic acid, TPA). MOCCs are potentially relevant for catalytic or magnetic applications as they offer lowly coordinated but thermodynamically stable 1D arrangements of metallic centers. Functional MOCCs are created on Cu(110) by co-deposition of TMA molecules and Fe atoms. These structures are thoroughly analyzed by STM and rationalized by means of DFT calculations. A net spin-moment is predicted for the Fe centers inside the chain which is comparable to that of free Fe adatoms on the surface. The adhesion of a dipeptide, Phe-Phe, on Cu(110) is investigated in order to further analyze the templating role of this substrate for the structure formation of larger organic molecules. Phe-Phe forms homochiral chains showing that the molecular chirality is effectively transferred to the supramolecular level. The comparison with the Phe-Phechains obtained on the chemically similar but structurally different Cu(100) substrate, demonstrates that commensurability to the surface lattice is one of the most important parameters governing the supramolecular growth modes. Furthermore, the possibilities to create mixed two-dimensional surface crystals using two different molecular adsorbates is investigated. The metal-organic chain structures based on TMA are combined with the chiral Phe-Phe molecules. A single mixed-phase with a hierarchical substructure is obtained, which unites the properties of the individual structures, namely metal-organic coordination and enantiopure chirality. This result represents a further step towards transferring the supramolecular design concepts known in 3D supramolecular chemistry to surfaces. Finally, the Cu(110)-(2x1)0-striped phase is used as a tunable, self-organized template for the molecular structures reported above. MOCCs are created in the bare Cu surface areas that define the length and position of the chains. The ordering is limited, though, by interactions of the MOCCs with the Cu-O stripes which are traced back to a competition for Cu adatoms necessary for the formation of both structures. No such concurrence exists for Phe-Phe which is correspondingly found to be efficiently contained to the bare Cu ares and well ordered by the Cu-O-stripes even for the second layer of Phe-Phe. These results are discussed in comparison to literature data and with respect to a wider use of this nanotemplate for the adsorption of larger organic molecules.

370. Hvorfor køber forbrugerne økologi?

Author

Katherine Jensen, Thomas Lund, Laura Mørch Andersen, Vibeke Tornhøj Christensen, Signe Krarup, Tove Christensen, Sigrid Denver, Helle Bossen, Henrik Hindborg, Thomas Roland, and Gertrud Øllgaard

371. Threshold, comfortable level and impedance changes as a function of electrode-modiolar distance

Author

Susan B. Waltzman, William H. Shapiro, Robert Cowan, Antje Aschendorff, Roland Laszig, Thomas Roland, Michelle Knight, Benhard Richter, Michael Tykocinski, Lawrence T. Cohen, Elaine Saunders, and Mathias Stecker

Subjects
Adult, Materials science, medicine.medical_treatment, Deafness, Speech and Hearing, Cochlear implant, Culture Techniques, Electrode array, medicine, Humans, Standard array, Electrical impedance, Electrodes, Cochlea, Aged, Dynamic range, Temporal Bone, Auditory Threshold, Equipment Design, Middle Aged, Cochlear Implantation, Radiography, Modiolus (cochlea), Otorhinolaryngology, Acoustic Impedance Tests, Acoustic Stimulation, Electrode, Biomedical engineering
Abstract

Objective: The study investigated the hypothesis that threshold and comfortable levels recorded from cochlear implant patients would reduce, and dynamic range increase, as distance of the electrode from the modiolar wall (radial distance) decreases. Two groups of cochlear implant patients participated; one group using the Nucleus ® 24 Contour™ electrode array, and one group using the Nucleus standard straight (banded) array. The Nucleus 24 Contour array has been shown in temporal bone studies to lie closer to the modiolus than the banded array. The relationship of electrode impedance and radial distance is also investigated. Design: The study, conducted at three centers, evaluated 21 patients using the Contour array, and 36 patients using the banded array. For each patient, threshold, comfortable levels and dynamic range were measured at four time points. Common ground electrode impedance was recorded clinically from each patient, at time intervals up to 12 wk. An estimate of the radial distance of the electrode from the modiolus was made by analysis of Cochlear view x-rays. Results: Threshold and comfortable levels were significantly lower for the Nucleus 24 Contour array than for the banded array. However, dynamic range measurements did not show the predicted increase. In a majority of subjects, a significant correlation was found between the estimated radial distance of the electrode from the modiolus and the measured threshold and comfortable levels. This trend was not observed for dynamic range. The analysis indicates that other factors than radial distance are involved in the resultant psychophysical levels. Clinical impedance measures (common ground) were found to be significantly higher for the Contour array. However, the electrodes on the Contour array are half-rings, which are approximately only half the geometric size of the full rings as electrodes of the standard array. When the geometric electrode area in the two array designs are normalized, the trends in the electrode impedance behavior are similar. Conclusions: The results support the hypothesis that the relationship between the radial distance of the electrode and the psychophysical measures are influenced by patterns of fibrous tissue growth and individual patient differences, such as etiology and neural survival. Impedance measures for the Nucleus 24 Contour electrode array were higher than the banded electrode array, but this is primarily due to the reduction in electrode surface area. The different outcomes in impedance over time suggest differences in the relative contributions of the components of impedance with the two arrays. (Ear & Hearing 2002;23;28S– 40S)

372. Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

Author

Aaltonen, Timo Antero, Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich, Abbott, Braden Keim, Acharya, Bannanje Sripath, Adams, Mark Raymond, Adams, Todd, Agnew, James P., Alexeev, Guennadi D., Alkhazov, Georgiy D., Alton, Andrew K., Amerio, Silvia, Amidei, Dante E., Anastassov, Anton Iankov, Annovi, Alberto, Antos, Jaroslav, Apollinari, Giorgio, Appel, Jeffrey A., Arisawa, Tetsuo, Artikov, Akram Muzafarovich, Asaadi, Jonathan A., Ashmanskas, William Joseph, Askew, Andrew Warren, Atkins, Scott, Auerbach, Benjamin, Augsten, Kamil, Aurisano, Adam J., Aushev, Volodymyr, Aushev, Yegor, Avila, Carlos A., Azfar, Farrukh A., Badaud, Frederique, Badgett, William Farris, Bae, Taegil, Bagby, Linda F., Baldin, Boris, Bandurin, Dmitry V., Banerjee, Sunanda, Barbaro-Galtieri, Angela, Barberis, Emanuela, Baringer, Philip S., Barnes, Virgil E., Barnett, Bruce Arnold, Barria, Patrizia, Bartlett, J. Frederick, Bartos, Pavol, Bassler, Ursula Rita, Bauce, Matteo, Bazterra, Victor, Bean, Alice L., Bedeschi, Franco, Begalli, Marcia, Behari, Satyajit, Bellantoni, Leo, Bellettini, Giorgio, Bellinger, James Nugent, Benjamin, Douglas P., Beretvas, Andrew F., Beri, Suman B., Bernardi, Gregorio, Bernhard, Ralf Patrick, Bertram, Iain A., Besancon, Marc, Beuselinck, Raymond, Bhat, Pushpalatha C., Bhatia, Sudeep, Bhatnagar, Vipin, Bhatti, Anwar Ahmad, Bland, Karen Renee, Blazey, Gerald Charles, Blessing, Susan K., Bloom, Kenneth A., Blumenfeld, Barry J., Bocci, Andrea, Bodek, Arie, Boehnlein, Amber S., Boline, Daniel Dooley, Boos, Edward E., Borissov, Guennadi, Bortoletto, Daniela, Borysova, Maryna, Boudreau, Joseph Francis, Boveia, Antonio, Brandt, Andrew, Brandt, Oleg, Brigliadori, Luca, Brochmann, Michelle, Brock, Raymond L., Bromberg, Carl Michael, Bross, Alan D., Brown, Duncan Paul, Brucken, Erik, Bu, Xue-Bing, Budagov, Ioulian A., Budd, Howard Scott, Buehler, Marc, Buescher, Volker, Bunichev, Viacheslav Yevgenyevich, Burdin, Sergey, Burkett, Kevin Alan, Busetto, Giovanni, Bussey, Peter John, Buszello, Claus Peter, Butti, Pierfrancesco, Buzatu, Adrian, Calamba, Aristotle, Camacho-Perez, Enrique, Camarda, Stefano, Campanelli, Mario, Canelli, Florencia, Carls, Benjamin, Carlsmith, Duncan L., Carosi, Roberto, Carrillo Moreno, Salvador, Casal Larana, Bruno, Casarsa, Massimo, Casey, Brendan Cameron Kieran, Castilla-Valdez, Heriberto, Castro, Andrea, Catastini, Pierluigi, Caughron, Seth Aaron, Cauz, Diego, Cavaliere, Viviana, Cerri, Alessandro, Cerrito, Lucio, Chakrabarti, Subhendu, Chan, Kwok Ming Leo, Chandra, Avdhesh, Chapelain, Antoine, Chapon, Emilien, Chen, Guo, Chen, Yen-Chu, Chertok, Maxwell Benjamin, Chiarelli, Giorgio, Chlachidze, Gouram, Cho, Kihyeon, Cho, Sung-Woong, Choi, Suyong, Chokheli, Davit, Choudhary, Brajesh C., Cihangir, Selcuk, Claes, Daniel R., Clark, Allan Geoffrey, Clarke, Christopher Joseph, Clutter, Justace Randall, Convery, Mary Elizabeth, Conway, John Stephen, Cooke, Michael P., Cooper, William Edward, Corbo, Matteo, Corcoran, Marjorie D., Cordelli, Marco, Couderc, Fabrice, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Cox, Charles Alexander, Cox, David Jeremy, Cremonesi, Matteo, Cruz Alonso, Daniel, Cuevas Maestro, Javier, Culbertson, Raymond Lloyd, Cuth, Jakub, Cutts, David, Das, Amitabha, D'Ascenzo, Nicola, Datta, Mousumi, Davies, Gavin John, De Barbaro, Pawel, De Jong, Sijbrand J., De La Cruz-Burelo, Eduard, Deliot, Frederic, Demina, Regina, Demortier, Luc M., Deninno, Maria Maddalena, Denisov, Dmitri S., Denisov, Sergei P., D'Errico, Maria, Desai, Satish Vijay, Deterre, Cecile, DeVaughan, Kayle Otis, Devoto, Francesco, Di Canto, Angelo, Di Ruzza, Benedetto, Diehl, H. Thomas, Diesburg, Michael, Ding, Pengfei, Dittmann, Jay Richard, Dominguez, D. Aaron M., Donati, Simone, D'Onofrio, Monica, Dorigo, Mirco, Driutti, Anna, Drutskoy, Alexey, Dubey, Abhinav Kumar, Dudko, Lev V., Duperrin, Arnaud, Dutt, Suneel, Eads, Michael T., Ebina, Koji, Edgar, Ryan Christopher, Edmunds, Daniel L., Elagin, Andrey Lvovich, Ellison, John A., Elvira, V. Daniel, Enari, Yuji, Erbacher, Robin D., Errede, Steven Michael, Esham, Benjamin, Evans, Harold G., Evdokimov, Anatoly V., Evdokimov, Valeri N., Farrington, Sinead Marie, Faure, Alexandre, Feng, Lei, Ferbel, Thomas, Fernández Ramos, Juan Pablo, Fiedler, Frank, Field, Richard D., Filthaut, Frank, Fisher, Wade Cameron, Fisk, H. Eugene, Flanagan, Gene U., Forrest, Robert David, Fortner, Michael R., Fox, Harald, Franc, Jiri, Franklin, Melissa E. B., Freeman, John Christian, Frisch, Henry J., Fuess, Stuart C., Funakoshi, Yujiro, Galloni, Camilla, Garbincius, Peter H., Garcia-Bellido, Aran, Garcia-Gonzalez, Jose Andres, Garfinkel, Arthur F., Garosi, Paola, Gavrilov, Vladimir B., Geng, Weigang, Gerber, Cecilia Elena, Gerberich, Heather Kay, Gerchtein, Elena A., Gershtein, Yuri S., Giagu, Stefano, Giakoumopoulou, Viktoria Athina, Gibson, Karen Ruth, Ginsburg, Camille Marie, Ginther, George E., Giokaris, Nikos D., Giromini, Paolo, Glagolev, Vladimir, Glenzinski, Douglas Andrew, Gogota, Olga, Gold, Michael S., Goldin, Daniel, Golossanov, Alexander, Golovanov, Georgy Anatolievich, Gomez, Gervasio, Gomez Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim T., Gonzalez Lopez, Oscar, Gorelov, Igor V., Goshaw, Alfred T., Goulianos, Konstantin A., Gramellini, Elena, Grannis, Paul D., Greder, Sebastien, Greenlee, Herbert B., Grenier, Gerald Jean, Gris, Phillipe Luc, Grivaz, Jean-Francois, Grohsjean, Alexander, Grosso-Pilcher, Carla, Gruenendahl, Stefan, Gruenewald, Martin Werner, Guillemin, Thibault, Guimaraes Da Costa, Joao, Gutierrez, Gaston R., Gutierrez, Phillip, Hahn, Stephen R., Haley, Joseph Glenn Biddle, Han, Ji-Yeon, Han, Liang, Happacher, Fabio, Hara, Kazuhiko, Harder, Kristian, Hare, Matthew Frederick, Harel, Amnon, Harr, Robert Francis, Harrington-Taber, Timothy, Hatakeyama, Kenichi, Hauptman, John Michael, Hays, Christopher Paul, Hays, Jonathan M., Head, Tim, Hebbeker, Thomas, Hedin, David R., Hegab, Hatim, Heinrich, Joel G., Heinson, Ann, Heintz, Ulrich, Hensel, Carsten, Heredia-De La Cruz, Ivan, Herndon, Matthew Fairbanks, Herner, Kenneth Richard, Hesketh, Gavin G., Hildreth, Michael D., Hirosky, Robert James, Hoang, Trang, Hobbs, John D., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoeneisen, Bruce, Hogan, Julie, Hohlfeld, Mark, Holzbauer, Jenny Lyn, Hong, Ziqing, Hopkins, Walter Howard, Hou, Suen Ray, Howley, Ian James, Hubacek, Zdenek, Hughes, Richard Edward, Husemann, Ulrich, Hussein, Mohammad, Huston, Joey Walter, Hynek, Vlastislav, Iashvili, Ia, Ilchenko, Yuriy, Illingworth, Robert A., Introzzi, Gianluca, Iori, Maurizio, Ito, Albert S., Ivanov, Andrew Gennadievich, Jabeen, Shabnam, Jaffre, Michel J., James, Eric B., Jang, Dongwook, Jayasinghe, Ayesh, Jayatilaka, Bodhitha Anjalike, Jeon, Eun-Ju, Jeong, Min-Soo, Jesik, Richard L., Jiang, Peng, Jindariani, Sergo Robert, Johns, Kenneth Arthur, Johnson, Emily, Johnson, Marvin E., Jonckheere, Alan M., Jones, Matthew T., Jonsson, Per Martin, Joo, Kyung Kwang, Joshi, Jyoti, Jun, Soon Yung, Jung, Andreas Werner, Junk, Thomas R., Juste, Aurelio, Kajfasz, Eric, Kambeitz, Manuel, Kamon, Teruki, Karchin, Paul Edmund, Karmanov, Dmitriy Y., Kasmi, Azeddine, Kato, Yukihiro, Katsanos, Ioannis, Kaur, Manbir, Kehoe, Robert Leo Patrick, Kermiche, Smain, Ketchum, Wesley Robert, Keung, Justin Kien, Khalatyan, Norayr, Khanov, Alexander, Kharchilava, Avto, Kharzheev, Yuri N., Kilminster, Benjamin John, Kim, DongHee, Kim, Hyunsoo, Kim, Jieun, Kim, Min Jeong, Kim, Shin-Hong, Kim, Soo Bong, Kim, Young-Jin, Kim, Young-Kee, Kimura, Naoki, Kirby, Michael H., Kiselevich, Ivan Lvovich, Kohli, Jatinder M., Kondo, Kunitaka, Kong, Dae Jung, Konigsberg, Jacobo, Kotwal, Ashutosh Vijay, Kozelov, Alexander V., Kraus, James Alexander, Kreps, Michal, Kroll, I. Joseph, Kruse, Mark Charles, Kuhr, Thomas, Kumar, Ashish, Kupco, Alexander, Kurata, Masakazu, Kurca, Tibor, Kuzmin, Valentin Alexandrovich, Laasanen, Alvin Toivo, Lammel, Stephan, Lammers, Sabine Wedam, Lancaster, Mark, Lannon, Kevin Patrick, Latino, Giuseppe, Lebrun, Patrice, Lee, Hyeon-Seung, Lee, Hyun Su, Lee, Jaison, Lee, Seh-Wook, Lee, William M., Lei, Xiaowen, Lellouch, Jeremie, Leo, Sabato, Leone, Sandra, Lewis, Jonathan D., Li, Dikai, Li, Hengne, Li, Liang, Li, Qi-Zhong, Lim, Jeong Ku, Limosani, Antonio, Lincoln, Donald W., Linnemann, James Thomas, Lipaev, Vladimir V., Lipeles, Elliot David, Lipton, Ronald J., Lister, Alison, Liu, Huanzhao, Liu, Qiuguang, Liu, Tiehui Ted, Liu, Yanwen, Lobodenko, Alexandre, Lockwitz, Sarah E., Loginov, Andrey Borisovich, Lokajicek, Milos, Lopes De Sá, Rafael, Lucchesi, Donatella, Lucà, Alessandra, Lueck, Jan, Lujan, Paul Joseph, Lukens, Patrick Thomas, Luna-Garcia, Rene, Lungu, Gheorghe, Lyon, Adam Leonard, Lys, Jeremy E., Lysak, Roman, Maciel, Arthur K. A., Madar, Romain, Madrak, Robyn Leigh, Maestro, Paolo, Magana-Villalba, Ricardo, Malik, Sarah Alam, Malik, Sudhir, Malyshev, Vladimir L., Manca, Giulia, Manousakis-Katsikakis, Arkadios, Mansour, Jason, Marchese, Luigi, Margaroli, Fabrizio, Marino, Christopher Phillip, Martínez-Ortega, Jorge, Matera, Keith, Mattson, Mark Edward, Mazzacane, Anna, Mazzanti, Paolo, McCarthy, Robert L., Mcgivern, Carrie Lynne, McNulty, Ronan, Mehta, Andrew, Mehtala, Petteri, Meijer, Melvin M., Melnitchouk, Alexander S., Menezes, Diego D., Mercadante, Pedro Galli, Merkin, Mikhail M., Mesropian, Christina, Meyer, Arnd, Meyer, Jorg Manfred, Miao, Ting, Miconi, Florian, Mietlicki, David John, Mitra, Ankush, Miyake, Hideki, Moed, Shulamit, Moggi, Niccolo, Mondal, Naba K., Moon, Chang-Seong, Moore, Ronald Scott, Morello, Michael Joseph, Mukherjee, Aseet, Mulhearn, Michael James, Muller, Thomas, Murat, Pavel A., Mussini, Manuel, Nachtman, Jane Marie, Nagai, Yoshikazu, Naganoma, Junji, Nagy, Elemer, Nakano, Itsuo, Napier, Austin, Narain, Meenakshi, Nayyar, Ruchika, Neal, Homer A., Negret, Juan Pablo, Nett, Jason Michael, Neustroev, Petr V., Nguyen, Huong Thi, Nigmanov, Turgun S., Nodulman, Lawrence J., Noh, Seoyoung, Norniella Francisco, Olga, Nunnemann, Thomas P., Oakes, Louise Beth, Oh, Seog Hwan, Oh, Young-Do, Okusawa, Toru, Orava, Risto Olavi, Hernandez Orduna, Jose De Jesus, Ortolan, Lorenzo, Osman, Nicolas Ahmed, Pagliarone, Carmine Elvezio, Pal, Arnab, Palencia Cortezon, Enrique, Palni, Prabhakar, Papadimitriou, Vaia, Parashar, Neeti, Parihar, Vivek, Park, Sung Keun, Parker, William Chesluk, Partridge, Richard A., Parua, Nirmalya, Patwa, Abid, Pauletta, Giovanni, Paulini, Manfred, Paus, Christoph Maria Ernst, Penning, Bjoern, Perfilov, Maxim Anatolyevich, Peters, Reinhild Yvonne Fatima, Petridis, Konstantinos, Petrillo, Gianluca, Petroff, Pierre, Phillips, Thomas J., Piacentino, Giovanni M., Pianori, Elisabetta, Pilot, Justin Robert, Pitts, Kevin T., Plager, Charles, Pleier, Marc-Andre, Podstavkov, Vladimir M., Pondrom, Lee G., Popov, Alexey V., Poprocki, Stephen, Potamianos, Karolos Jozef, Pranko, Aliaksandr Pavlovich, Prewitt, Michelle, Price, Darren, Prokopenko, Nikolay N., Prokoshin, Fedor, Ptohos, Fotios K., Punzi, Giovanni, Qian, Jianming, Quadt, Arnulf, Quinn, Gene Breese, Ratoff, Peter N., Razumov, Ivan A., Redondo Fernández, Ignacio, Renton, Peter B., Rescigno, Marco, Rimondi, Franco, Ripp-Baudot, Isabelle, Ristori, Luciano, Rizatdinova, Flera, Robson, Aidan, Rodriguez, Tatiana Isabel, Rolli, Simona, Rominsky, Mandy Kathleen, Ronzani, Manfredi, Roser, Robert Martin, Rosner, Jonathan L., Ross, Anthony, Royon, Christophe, Rubinov, Paul Michael, Ruchti, Randal C., Ruffini, Fabrizio, Ruiz-Jimeno, Alberto, Russ, James S., Rusu, Vadim Liviu, Sajot, Gerard, Sakumoto, Willis Kazuo, Sakurai, Yuki, Sánchez Hernández, Alberto, Sanders, Michiel P., Santi, Lorenzo, Santos, Angelo Souza, Sato, Koji, Savage, David G., Saveliev, Valeri, Savitskyi, Mykola, Savoy-Navarro, Aurore, Sawyer, H. Lee, Scanlon, Timothy P., Schamberger, R. Dean, Scheglov, Yury A., Schellman, Heidi M., Schlabach, Philip, Schmidt, Eugene E., Schott, Matthias, Schwanenberger, Christian, Schwarz, Thomas A., Schwienhorst, Reinhard H., Scodellaro, Luca, Scuri, Fabrizio, Seidel, Sally C., Seiya, Yoshihiro, Sekaric, Jadranka, Semenov, Alexei, Severini, Horst, Sforza, Federico, Shabalina, Elizaveta K., Shalhout, Shalhout Zaki, Shary, Viacheslav V., Shaw, Savanna, Shchukin, Andrey A., Shears, Tara G., Shepard, Paul F., Shimojima, Makoto, Shkola, Oleg, Shochet, Melvyn J., Shreyber-Tecker, Irina, Simak, Vladislav J., Simonenko, Alexander V., Skubic, Patrick Louis, Slattery, Paul F., Sliwa, Krzysztof Jan, Smith, John Rodgers, Snider, Frederick Douglas, Snow, Gregory R., Snow, Joel Mark, Snyder, Scott Stuart, Söldner-Rembold, Stefan, Song, Hao, Sonnenschein, Lars, Sorin, Maria Veronica, Soustruznik, Karel, St Denis, Richard Dante, Stancari, Michelle Dawn, Stark, Jan, Stefaniuk, Nazar, Stentz, Dale James, Stoyanova, Dina A., Strauss, Michael G., Strologas, John, Sudo, Yuji, Sukhanov, Alexander I., Suslov, Igor M., Suter, Louise, Svoisky, Peter V., Takemasa, Ken-Ichi, Takeuchi, Yuji, Tang, Jian, Tecchio, Monica, Teng, Ping-Kun, Thom, Julia, Thomson, Evelyn Jean, Thukral, Vaikunth, Titov, Maxim, Toback, David A., Tokar, Stanislav, Tokmenin, Valeriy V., Tollefson, Kirsten Anne, Tomura, Tomonobu, Tonelli, Diego, Torre, Stefano, Torretta, Donatella, Totaro, Pierluigi, Trovato, Marco, Tsai, Yun-Tse, Tsybychev, Dmitri, Tuchming, Boris, Tully, Christopher George T., Ukegawa, Fumihiko, Uozumi, Satoru, Uvarov, Lev, Uvarov, Sergey L., Uzunyan, Sergey A., Van Kooten, Richard J., Van Leeuwen, Willem M., Varelas, Nikos, Varnes, Erich W., Vasilyev, Igor A., Vázquez-Valencia, Elsa Fabiola, Velev, Gueorgui, Vellidis, Konstantinos, Verkheev, Alexander Yurievich, Vernieri, Caterina, Vertogradov, Leonid S., Verzocchi, Marco, Vesterinen, Mika, Vidal Marono, Miguel, Vilanova, Didier, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocio, Vizan Garcia, Jesus Manuel, Vogel, Marcelo, Vokac, Petr, Volpi, Guido, Wagner, Peter, Wahl, Horst D., Wallny, Rainer S., Wang, Michael H. L. S., Wang, Song-Ming, Warchol, Jadwiga, Waters, David S., Watts, Gordon Thomas, Wayne, Mitchell R., Weichert, Jonas, Welty-Rieger, Leah Christine, Wester, William Carl, Whiteson, Daniel O., Wicklund, Arthur Barry, Wilbur, Scott, Williams, Hugh H., Williams, Mark Richard James, Wilson, Graham Wallace, Wilson, Jonathan Samuel, Wilson, Peter James, Winer, Brian L., Wittich, Peter, Wobisch, Markus, Wolbers, Stephen A., Wolfmeister, Homer, Wood, Darien Robert, Wright, Thomas Roland, Wu, Xin, Wu, Zhenbin, Wyatt, Terence R., Xie, Yunhe, Yamada, Ryuji, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Yamato, Daisuke, Yang, Siqi, Yang, Tingjun, Yang, Un-Ki, Yang, Yu Chul, Yao, Wei-Ming, Yasuda, Takahiro, Yatsunenko, Yuriy A., Ye, Wanyu, Ye, Zhenyu, Yeh, Gong Ping, Yi, Kai, Yin, Hang, Yip, Kin, Yoh, John, Yorita, Kohei, Yoshida, Takuo, Youn, Sungwoo, Yu, Geum Bong, Yu, Intae, Yu, Jiaming, Zanetti, Anna Maria, Zeng, Yu, Zennamo, Joseph, Zhao, Tianqi Gilbert, Zhou, Bing, Zhou, Chen, Zhu, Junjie, Zielinski, Marek, Zieminska, Daria, Zivkovic, Lidija, and Zucchelli, Stefano

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1960 GeV-cms, angular distribution: asymmetry, rapidity: difference, kinematics, DZERO, anti-p p: scattering, CDF, Batavia TEVATRON Coll, top: pair production, 7. Clean energy, anti-p p: colliding beams, experimental results
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Physical review letters 120(4), 042001 (2018). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.042001, Published by APS, College Park, Md.

373. Holocene development of Amazonia's oldest peatland

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Graeme Swindles, Paul Morris, Bronwen Whitney, Mariusz Galka, Jennifer Galloway, Angela Gallego-Sala, Andrew Macumber, Donal Mullan, Mark Smith, Matthew Amesbury, Thomas Roland, Hamed Sanei, Timothy Patterson, Lauren Parry, Dan Charman, Omar Lopez, Elvis Valderrama, Elizabeth Watson, Outi Lahteenoja, and Andrew Baird

377. Wetting behavior and interfacial tension of a refrigerant oil in air and refrigerant atmospheres.

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Rausch, Michael Heinrich, Schmidt, Patrick Sebastian, Gall, Thomas Roland, Giraudet, Cédric, and Fröba, Andreas Paul

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*INTERFACIAL tension, *POLYTEF, *SOLID lubricants, *ATMOSPHERE, *AIR, *REFRIGERANTS
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• New method for characterization of wetting behavior based on spreading velocities. • Increase in spreading velocity of PAG-based lubricant in R-134a atmosphere. • Non-uninform spreading accessible by optical analysis. • Decreasing interfacial tension with increasing R-134a pressure at constant temperature. • Temperature dependence of interfacial tension affected by solubility. In the present study, the wettability of ground AISI 321 steel and PTFE surfaces with a polyalkylene glycol-based lubricant in air and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) atmospheres is characterized. For this, spreading velocities are determined from videos recorded during the continuous dosing of lubricant on the solid surfaces. The results are compared with interfacial tension data for the lubricant measured by the pendant-drop method in air and R-134a atmospheres. Significantly higher wettability was found in the presence of refrigerant atmosphere, on the steel surface and along its grinding grooves, whereas no consistent temperature-dependent trends could be identified. The interfacial tension of the lubricant decreases with increasing temperature at ambient air atmosphere as well as with increasing R-134a pressure at a fixed temperature. The temperature-dependent behavior of the interfacial tension for a given refrigerant pressure is affected by the temperature itself and by the resulting solubility of the refrigerant in the lubricant. Image, graphical abstract [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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378. The Importance of Intraoperative Plain Radiographs during Cochlear Implant Surgery in Patients with Normal Anatomy

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Ohad Cohen, Jean-Yves Sichel, Chanan Shaul, Itay Chen, J. Thomas Roland, and Ronen Perez

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intraoperative plain X-ray, anti-Stenver’s view, cochlear implantation, electrode array malposition, tip fold-over, Technology, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Physics, QC1-999, Chemistry, QD1-999
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Although malpositioning of the cochlear implant (CI) electrode array is rare in patients with normal anatomy, when occurring it may result in reduced hearing outcome. In addition to intraoperative electrophysiologic tests, imaging is an important modality to assess correct electrode array placement. The purpose of this report was to assess the incidence and describe cases in which intraoperative plain radiographs detected a malpositioned array. Intraoperative anti-Stenver’s view plain X-rays are conducted routinely in all CI surgeries in our tertiary center before awakening the patient and breaking the sterile field. Data of patients undergoing 399 CI surgeries were retrospectively analyzed. A total of 355 had normal inner ear and temporal bone anatomy. Patients with intra or extracochlear malpositioned electrode arrays demonstrated in the intraoperative X-ray were described. There were four cases of electrode array malposition out of 355 implantations with normal anatomy (1.1%): two tip fold-overs, one extracochlear placement and one partial insertion. All electrodes were reinserted immediately; repeated radiographs were normal and the patients achieved good hearing function. Intraoperative plain anti-Stenver’s view X-rays are valuable to confirm electrode array location, allowing correction before the conclusion of surgery. These radiographs are cheaper, faster, and emit much less radiation than other imaging options, making them a viable cost-effective tool in patients with normal anatomy.

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2021
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381. Cochlear Implantation With Sporadic Inner Ear Schwannomas: Outcomes in 106 Patients From an International Multi-Institutional Study.

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Marinelli JP, Rahne T, Dornhoffer JR, Lohse CM, Cottrell J, Thomas Roland J Jr, Thompson NJ, Brown KD, Lucas JC, Babu SC, Lindquist NR, Perkins EL, Tan D, Lane JI, Hunter JB, Harvey E, Deep NL, Cerasiello SY, Kircher ML, Espahbodi M, Tooker EL, West NC, Caye-Thomasen P, Carlson ML, and Plontke SK

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Humans, Male, Female, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Adult, Treatment Outcome, Aged, Microsurgery methods, Ear Neoplasms surgery, Ear Neoplasms pathology, Neuroma, Acoustic surgery, Neuroma, Acoustic pathology, Neurilemmoma surgery, Radiosurgery methods, Ear, Inner surgery, Ear, Inner pathology, Cochlear Implantation methods, Speech Perception physiology
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Objective: To evaluate cochlear implant speech perception among patients with sporadic inner ear schwannoma who underwent ipsilateral implantation., Study Design: Retrospective multi-institutional cohort study., Setting: Eleven tertiary academic medical centers across Germany, Denmark, and the United States., Patients: One hundred six patients with sporadic inner ear schwannoma who received an ipsilateral cochlear implant from 2011 to 2022., Interventions: Ipsilateral cochlear implantation with observation, stereotactic radiosurgery, or microsurgery for tumor management., Main Outcome Measures: Monosyllabic speech perception testing scores and rates of open-set speech perception., Results: Among 106 patients studied, 101 (95%) achieved open-set speech perception with a median of 24 months (interquartile range [IQR] 12-42 mo) of audiometric follow-up. Median ipsilateral monosyllabic speech perception testing achieved was 72% (IQR 54-85%), and median ipsilateral AzBio in quiet was 75% (IQR 46-90%). Most (91 of 106 [86%]) underwent microsurgery for tumor control, with cochlear implantation performed simultaneously in 98% (89 of 91) of these patients. The ability to achieve gross total resection significantly differed by tumor complexity, with 97% of low-complexity tumors, 100% of intermediate complexity, and 0% of high-complexity tumors undergoing gross total resection (p < 0.001). However, among patients managed with microsurgery, there was not a statistically significant difference in post-cochlear implantation monosyllabic speech perception scores across complexity groupings, with median scores of 75 and 70% for patients with tumors of low or intermediate complexity and those with tumors of high complexity, respectively (p = 0.5). Eight of 102 patients (8%) assessed experienced deterioration in cochlear implant performance over time. Among the subset of 39 patients with available MRI to review, the region of surveillance interest could be visualized postoperatively on MRI in all cases., Conclusions: Open-set speech perception is achieved in most patients with inner ear schwannoma undergoing ipsilateral cochlear implantation. Although cochlear implantation in high-complexity inner ear schwannomas is only possible with incomplete tumor resection, long-term open-set speech perception outcomes are similar to lower-complexity tumors., (Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2025
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382. In vitro test of the novel antibiotic lefamulin alone and in combination with doxycycline against Mycoplasma genitalium .

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Salado-Rasmussen K, Nørgaard C, Pedersen TR, Paukner S, and Jensen JS

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Mycoplasma genitalium , a sexually transmitted bacterium, is a significant cause of urethritis in men and various reproductive tract infections in women, including cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, and potentially infertility. Treatment has become increasingly challenging due to the emergence of resistance to both first-line (azithromycin) and second-line (moxifloxacin) antibiotics. The need for new treatment options is critical. This study evaluates the in vitro efficacy of the novel antibiotic lefamulin against 54 M . genitalium isolates, including highly resistant variants. Additionally, the potential synergistic effects of combining lefamulin with doxycycline were assessed in eight selected isolates. Lefamulin exhibited strong antibacterial activity across all tested isolates, with minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ranging from 0.0005 to 0.064 µg/mL. Minimal bactericidal concentrations ranged from 0.001 to 0.128 µg/mL and were equal to the MIC in 40 of 54 isolates and within two- and fourfold MIC in the rest of the isolates. Notably, lefamulin's MIC values were significantly lower than those of azithromycin, doxycycline, and moxifloxacin, underscoring its potent efficacy. Checkerboard assays revealed no antagonistic interaction between lefamulin and doxycycline, with some additive effects observed in certain isolates. These findings highlight lefamulin's potential as a highly effective treatment for M. genitalium infections, particularly those involving multi-drug-resistant strains. Given the increasing rates of resistance and the limitations of current therapies, lefamulin may represent a promising new option for managing this challenging pathogen. Further clinical studies are warranted to confirm these in vitro results and explore the therapeutic potential of lefamulin in combination with doxycycline.

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2024
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383. Performance After Cochlear Reimplantation Using a Different Manufacturer.

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Cottrell J, Spitzer E, Winchester A, Dunn-Johnson C, Gantz B, Rathgeb S, Shew M, Herzog J, Buchman C, Friedmann D, Jethanamest D, McMenomey S, Waltzman S, and Thomas Roland J Jr

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Humans, Retrospective Studies, Male, Adult, Female, Middle Aged, Aged, Child, Adolescent, Treatment Outcome, Child, Preschool, Young Adult, Speech Perception physiology, Reoperation statistics & numerical data, Reoperation methods, Replantation methods, Cochlear Implantation methods, Cochlear Implants
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Objective: To better understand cochlear implant (CI) performance after reimplantation with a different device manufacturer., Study Design: Multisite retrospective review., Setting: Tertiary referral centers., Patients: Patients older than 4 years who received a CI and subsequently underwent CI reimplantation with a different manufacturer over a 20-year period., Intervention: Reimplantation., Main Outcome Measure: The primary outcome was difference in the best CNC score obtained with the primary CI, compared with the most recent CNC score obtained after reimplantation., Results: Twenty-nine patients met the criteria at three centers. The best average CNC score achieved by adult patients after primary cochlear implantation was 46.2% (n = 16), measured an average of 14 months (range: 3-36 mo) postoperatively. When looking at the most recent CNC score of adult patients before undergoing reimplantation, the average CNC score dropped to 19.2% (n = 17). After reimplantation, the average 3- to 6-month CNC score was 48.3% (n = 12), with most recent average CNC score being 44.4% (n = 17) measured an average of 19 months (range: 3-46 mo) postoperatively. There was no statistically significant difference (p = 0.321; t11 = 0.48) identified in performance between the best CNC score achieved by adult patients after primary cochlear implantation, and the most recent score achieved after reimplantation (n = 12). Analysis of prerevision and postrevision speech performance was not possible in pediatric patients (<18 yr old) because of differences in tests administered., Conclusion: Patients undergoing reimplantation with a different manufacturer achieved CNC score performance comparable to their best performance with their original device., Competing Interests: The remaining authors disclose no conflicts of interest., (Copyright © 2024, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2024
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384. Cochlear Implantation in Children Under 9 Months of Age: Safety and Efficacy.

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Cottrell J, Spitzer E, Friedmann D, Jethanamest D, McMenomey S, Thomas Roland J Jr, and Waltzman S

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Child, Infant, Humans, Hearing, Speech, Treatment Outcome, Postoperative Complications surgery, Cochlear Implantation adverse effects, Cochlear Implants adverse effects, Speech Perception, Deafness surgery
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Objective: To assess the safety of cochlear implants (CIs) in children under 9 months of age to better understand expected postoperative complication rates, and to provide a preliminary look at efficacy., Study Design: Single-center retrospective review., Setting: Tertiary referral center., Patients: Children 5 to 8 months of age who received a CI between 2011 and 2021., Interventions: Therapeutic-CI., Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome was 6-month postoperative complication rate. Secondary outcomes included length of stay, device explantation/reimplantation, rehabilitation supports, and hearing and language outcomes. Complications of children implanted under than 9 months of age was compared with a cohort of children implanted 9 to 18 months of age between the years 2011 and 2016 using a chi-squared test ( p < 0.05)., Results: One hundred six children under 9 months of age were implanted (204 CIs) at a mean age of 6.6 months (range: 5-8). Postoperative complications occurred in 28 patients (26%) and were often minor. There were no mortalities. There was no statistically significant difference in complications, including reimplantation rates, between patients implanted under 9 months of age and those implanted 9 to 18 months of age. Speech discrimination outcomes were excellent, and mean spoken language outcomes were near normative for typically developing children., Conclusions: Cochlear implantation can be a safe and effective treatment option for children 5 to 8 months of age. Early hearing screening and referral for infants to receive appropriate intervention will continue to play a critical role in optimizing speech and language outcomes., Competing Interests: Conflicts of interest and source of funding: Dr. J. Thomas Roland Jr. is a consultant for Cochlear Americas and received research funding for cochlear implant-related projects, which are not affiliated with this research., (Copyright © 2023, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2024
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385. Gonorrhoea on the rise in Denmark since 2022: distinct clones drive increase in heterosexual individuals.

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Pedersen TR, Wessman M, Lindegaard M, Hallstrøm S, Westergaard C, Brock I, Dzajic E, Holmgaard DB, Jensen CS, Justesen US, Kornum JB, Søndergaard TS, Thomsen MK, Westh H, Østergaard C, Hoffmann S, and Stegger M

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Humans, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Denmark epidemiology, Heterosexuality, Neisseria gonorrhoeae genetics, Gonorrhea drug therapy, Gonorrhea epidemiology
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A surge in gonorrhoea in Denmark has occurred since 2022, a 46% increase from 2021. National surveillance, leveraging mandatory reporting and epidemiological data, highlights three distinct clades linked to heterosexual transmission. Despite the rise, these exhibit high susceptibility, contrasting MSM-associated strains. Geographical hotspots and age-specific patterns further illuminate transmission dynamics. The combination of genomic and epidemiological data provides novel insights into the evolving landscape of gonorrhoea, indicating potential shifts in infection dynamics and transmissibility.

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2024
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386. Rationale for the Development of a Novel Clinical Grading Scale for Postoperative Facial Nerve Function: Results of a Multidisciplinary International Working Group.

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Carlson ML, Lohse CM, Agazzi S, Babu SC, Barker FG, Barnett S, Bi WL, Biggs N, Boahene KD, Breen JT, Brown KD, Cayé-Thomasen P, Cosetti MK, Deep NL, Dey JK, Dornhoffer JR, Forner D, Gurgel RK, Hansen MR, Hunter JB, Kalamarides M, Kim IA, King AT, Kircher ML, Lassaletta L, Link MJ, Lloyd SKW, Lund-Johansen M, Marinelli JP, Matthies C, Mehta V, Moore EJ, Nassiri AM, Neff BA, Nelson RF, Olson JJ, Patel NS, Celda MP, Plitt AR, Price DL, Thomas Roland J Jr, Sweeney AD, Tasche KK, Tatagiba M, Tveiten Ø, Van Gompel JJ, Vrabec JT, Wanna GB, and Weisskopf PA

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Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Face, Head, Postoperative Complications diagnosis, Facial Nerve surgery, Facial Paralysis diagnosis, Facial Paralysis etiology
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Objective: The objective of the current study was to present the results of an international working group survey identifying perceived limitations of existing facial nerve grading scales to inform the development of a novel grading scale for assessing early postoperative facial paralysis that incorporates regional scoring and is anchored in recovery prognosis and risk of associated complications., Study Design: Survey., Setting: A working group of 48 multidisciplinary clinicians with expertise in skull base, cerebellopontine angle, temporal bone, or parotid gland surgery., Results: House-Brackmann grade is the most widely used system to assess facial nerve function among working group members (81%), although more than half (54%) agreed that the system they currently use does not adequately estimate the risk of associated complications, such as corneal injury, and confidence in interrater and intrarater reliability is generally low. Simplicity was ranked as the most important attribute of a novel postoperative facial nerve grading system to increase the likelihood of adoption, followed by reliability and accuracy. There was widespread consensus (91%) that the eye is the most critical facial region to focus on in the early postoperative setting., Conclusions: Members were invited to submit proposed grading systems in alignment with the objectives of the working group for subsequent validation. From these data, we plan to develop a simple, clinically anchored, and reproducible staging system with regional scoring for assessing early postoperative facial nerve function after surgery of the skull base, cerebellopontine angle, temporal bone, or parotid gland., Competing Interests: The authors disclose no conflicts of interest., (Copyright © 2023, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2023
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387. Mycoplasma phocimorsus sp. nov., isolated from Scandinavian patients with seal finger or septic arthritis after contact with seals.

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Skafte-Holm A, Pedersen TR, Frølund M, Stegger M, Qvortrup K, Michaels DL, Brown DR, and Jensen JS

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Humans, Animals, Phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Base Composition, Sequence Analysis, DNA, DNA, Bacterial genetics, Bacterial Typing Techniques, Fatty Acids chemistry, Cellulitis, Seals, Earless, Arthritis, Infectious
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Seal finger (sealer's finger, spekk finger), an extremely painful hand infection contracted by individuals handling seals, has previously been associated with Mycoplasma phocacerebrale . From 2000 to 2014, six independent strains of a novel Mycoplasma species were isolated at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, from Scandinavian patients with seal finger (M5725 T , M6447, M6620, M6642 and M6879) or septic arthritis (M6921). Prior to the onset of infection, all patients had reported contact with unspeciated seals. All isolates grew within 2-5 days in Friis' modified broth and metabolized glucose and arginine but not urea. Strains M5725 T , M6447, M6642 and M6921 also grew in Hayflick-type media. Colonies on agar media were large (0.5-1.0 mm) and had a typical 'fried egg' appearance, reduced tetrazolium, and were digitonin sensitive. Growth occurred at 32 °C but not at 42 °C. Strains were susceptible to doxycycline and moxifloxacin but resistant to azithromycin and erythromycin. The genomes of the six strains were sequenced and relatedness to all known Mycoplasma species was inferred. Phylogenetic analyses using 16S rRNA gene sequences and core genome single nucleotide polymorphisms showed that the isolated strains were highly similar and phylogenetically distinct from all other species within the genus Mycoplasma . The sizes of the genome sequences of the strains ranged from 744 321 to 772409 bp, with a G+C content of 25.0-25.2 mol%. Based on these analyses, we propose a novel species of the genus Mycoplasma with the name Mycoplasma phocimorsus sp. nov. with the first isolate M5725 T (NCTC 14922 T =DSM 116188 T ) as the proposed type strain and representative strains M6447, M6620, M6642, M6879 and M6921.

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2023
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388. The Frailty Phenotype in Older Adults Undergoing Cochlear Implantation.

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Kay-Rivest E, Friedmann DR, McMenomey SO, Jethanamest D, Thomas Roland J Jr, and Waltzman SB

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Humans, Aged, Frail Elderly, Geriatric Assessment, Prospective Studies, Phenotype, Frailty complications, Cochlear Implantation
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Objective: To prospectively evaluate the frailty phenotype in a population of older adults and determine its association with 1) perioperative complications, 2) need for vestibular rehabilitation after surgery, and 3) early speech perception outcomes., Study Design: Prospective cohort study., Setting: Tertiary care hospital., Patients: Adults older than 65 years undergoing cochlear implantation., Interventions: The Fried Frailty Index was used to classify patients as frail, prefrail, or not frail based on five criteria: 1) gait speed, 2) grip strength, 3) unintentional weight loss, 4) weekly physical activity, and 5) self-reported exhaustion., Main Outcomes Measures: Rates of intraoperative and postoperative complications, postoperative falls, need for vestibular rehabilitation, and early speech perception outcomes., Results: Forty-six patients were enrolled in this study. Five patients (10.8%) were categorized as frail and 10 (21.7%) as prefrail. The mean ages of frail, prefrail, and not frail patients were 80.9, 78.8, and 77.5, respectively. There were no intraoperative complications among all groups. Three patients required postoperative vestibular rehabilitation; all were not frail. One postoperative fall occurred in a nonfrail individual. Mean (standard deviation) device use times at 3 months in frail, prefrail, and not frail patients were 7.6 (3.5), 11.1 (3.6), and 11.6 (2.9) hours per day, respectively. Consonant-nucleus-consonant word scores 3 months after surgery in frail, prefrail, and not frail patients were 13% (12.2), 44% (19.7), and 51% (22.4), respectively. The median (range) number of missed follow-up visits (surgeon, audiologist, speech language pathologist combined) was 7 (1-10) in frail patients, compared with a median of 3 (0-4) and 2 (0-5) in prefrail and not frail patients., Conclusions: Frail patients did not have increased rates of surgical complications, need for vestibular rehabilitation, or postoperative falls. However, frail patients experienced challenges in accessing postoperative care, which may be addressed by using remote programming and rehabilitation., (Copyright © 2022, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2022
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389. The Natural History of Primary Inner Ear Schwannomas: Outcomes of Long-Term Follow-Up.

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Khera Z, Kay-Rivest E, Friedmann DR, McMenomey SO, Thomas Roland J Jr, and Jethanamest D

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Humans, Follow-Up Studies, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, Neuroma, Acoustic complications, Neuroma, Acoustic surgery, Neuroma, Acoustic pathology, Ear, Inner pathology, Neurilemmoma pathology, Hearing Loss etiology, Hearing Loss surgery, Hearing Loss pathology
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Objective: To describe the natural history of primary inner ear schwannomas over a long follow-up period., Study Design: Retrospective case series., Setting: Tertiary referral center., Patients: Patients with primary inner ear schwannomas with serial audiometric and radiologic follow-up., Main Outcome Measures: Patterns of hearing loss, rate of hearing decline, presence of vestibular symptoms, and rate of tumor growth., Results: A total of 12 patients with 13 tumors were identified. The mean duration of follow-up was 7 years. Forty-six percent of tumors were intracochlear, 15% were intravestibular, 23% were transmodiolar, and 15% were intravestibular-cochlear. Hearing loss was the most common presenting symptom, occurring in all patients. Among patients with serviceable hearing (American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Class A or B) at the time of presentation, the average time to decline to a nonserviceable hearing level was 57.3 months (range, 21-117 mo). Hearing loss was sudden in 31% of patients, progressive in 61% and fluctuating in 8%. No patients had intractable vertigo; however, two required vestibular physiotherapy. On initial magnetic resonance imaging, the mean largest tumor dimension was 3.1 mm (standard deviation, 1.2 mm), and the mean largest dimension on most recent magnetic resonance imaging was 4.4 mm (standard deviation, 1.1 mm). Two tumors exhibited no growth over a follow-up of 11.3 and 2.8 years, respectively. Overall, the mean growth was 0.25 mm per year followed. Two patients underwent cochlear implantation with simultaneous tumor resection and had favorable outcomes., Conclusion: Long-term follow-up suggests a conservative approach, with possible hearing rehabilitation at the time of deterioration, is a safe management strategy for primary inner ear schwannomas., Competing Interests: Sources of support and disclosure of funding : This study did not receive any funding from external sources. D.J. receives grant money from Advanced Bionics and is a consultant for Cochlear Corp. J.T.R. is on the advisory board for Cochlear Pty Limited. S.O.M. is an advisor for Advanced Bionics. There are no direct conflicts of interest related to the current study., (Copyright © 2022, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2022
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390. Modifications to Implanting the OSIA® 2 Bone Conduction Hearing Implant: How I Do it.

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Deep NL, Johnson BJ, Kay-Rivest E, Carlson ML, Friedmann DR, Driscoll CLW, Thomas Roland J Jr, and Jethanamest D

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Hearing Loss, Conductive surgery, Humans, Prostheses and Implants, Treatment Outcome, Bone Conduction, Hearing Aids
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This "How I Do It" report describes modifications made to the OSIA bone conduction hearing implant surgery in order to reduce wound complications. Laryngoscope, 132:1850-1854, 2022., (© 2022 The American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc.)

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2022
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391. Cochlear Implant Outcomes in CHARGE Syndrome: Updated Perspectives.

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Kay-Rivest E, McMenomey SO, Jethanamest D, Thomas Roland J Jr, Shapiro WH, Waltzman SB, and Friedmann DR

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Child, Child, Preschool, Humans, Infant, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, CHARGE Syndrome complications, CHARGE Syndrome surgery, Cochlear Implantation methods, Cochlear Implants, Deafness surgery, Hearing Loss surgery
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Objective: To evaluate outcomes of auditory implants in children with CHARGE syndrome and describe the evolution in management of hearing loss in this complex population., Methods: A retrospective case review was performed at a tertiary referral center. Children with CHARGE syndrome who received either a cochlear implant (CI) or auditory brainstem implant (ABI) were included. Clinical records, demographic information, CHARGE features, neuroimaging, audiology, hearing rehabilitation interventions, operative notes, and outcomes were reviewed., Results: Thirteen children with CHARGE syndrome underwent a total of 19 cochlear implants between 2008 and 2020. Among the congenitally deafened children (n = 9), six underwent bilateral implantation (five simultaneous and one sequential). Bilateral implantation was performed even in the presence of diminutive-appearing cochlear nerves. The average age of implantation was 1.1 years, and the mean device use time was 9.4 hours per day. Patients showed improvements in subjective family assessment related to hearing. In this group, two patients use oral communication, five use total communication, and two use sign language exclusively. Among the children with progressive hearing loss, the mean age of hearing deterioration was 4.4 years of age, and the device use time on average was 9.8 hours per day. The highest performer in the cohort was a child who lost hearing in their only hearing ear at age 4 and had normal cochleovestibular anatomy on that side. One child received an auditory brainstem implant at age two after deriving no benefit from a CI and can detect environmental sounds but is currently a nonuser. Over time, we noted that implantation occurred earlier in life and that practice has shifted toward bilateral implantation., Conclusions: Compared to a previous institutional cohort, children evaluated in this study were often implanted at a younger age and bilaterally with significantly improved outcomes. A CI evaluation should be considered in children with CHARGE syndrome to maximize sensory input and auditory ability., (Copyright © 2022, Otology & Neurotology, Inc.)

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2022
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392. COVID-19 vaccination in people living with HIV: current data and perspectives.

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Thomas R and Yombi JC

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Humans, Anti-Retroviral Agents therapeutic use, Antibodies, Viral, COVID-19 Vaccines administration & dosage, Vaccination, COVID-19 prevention & control, HIV Infections complications, HIV Infections drug therapy
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There is no correlation between HIV per se and other risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease. Pivotal studies have shown that vaccination is one of the effective ways to prevent severe COVID-19 illness in the general population. Studies on people living with HIV (PLWH) are scarce. The majority of these studies with mRNA (BNT126b2 and mRNA-1273) and adenovirus vector (Ad26.COV2.2 and ChAdOx1) vaccines with a low number of patients included shows that PLWH on antiretroviral treatment and with CD4 count > 200/mm³ has a robust immune response. These vaccines are thus effective in preventing severe infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in PLWH. However, PLWH with a CD4 count of < 200/mm³ and uncontrolled viral load (VL) seems to have a lower immune response. COVID-19 vaccines are safe in PLWH; adverse effects are mild or moderate, and their incidence is similar to non-HIV people (NHP). The CD4 count decreased significantly and transiently, and the VL rebounded insignificantly in a few patients. A complete vaccination including a third dose is, therefore, recommended. A booster dose with an mRNA vaccine is recommended in PLWH with an advanced stage of their disease., (Copyright: © 2022 Permanyer.)

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2022
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393. From Bimodal Hearing to Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Children-A Within-Subject Comparison.

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Deep NL, Green JE, Chen S, Shapiro WH, McMenomey SO, Thomas Roland J Jr, and Waltzman SB

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Child, Hearing, Humans, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, Cochlear Implantation, Cochlear Implants, Speech Perception
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Objective: To evaluate the performance changes after sequential bilateral cochlear implantation in a pediatric population of bimodal cochlear implant (CI) users. To evaluate the factors which influence the parental and recipient decision to discontinue hearing aid use and seek a second implant., Study Design: Retrospective case review, within-subject comparison., Setting: Tertiary referral center., Patients: Thirty-one pediatric (<18 yr) bimodal CI users who underwent sequential bilateral CI., Interventions: Sequential bilateral CI., Main Outcome Measures: Parental and/or recipient's reasons for discontinuing their hearing aid and pursuing a second implant, device usage from datalogs, speech understanding in the bimodal and bilateral CI condition., Results: Parents/patients were motivated to pursue sequential bilateral CI based on their positive performance with CI1, the expectation of further improvement with a second CI, and the prospect of having a second independently functional ear. In the bimodal condition, mean word recognition score (WRS), sentence recognition in quiet (SIQ), and sentence recognition in noise (SIN) scores were 87.4, 97.3, and 92.9% respectively. At 1-year post-sequential bilateral CI, the mean WRS, SIQ, and SIN score were 92.7, 98.7, and 97.7%, respectively. The improvement in bilateral CI speech scores compared with bimodal scores was statistically significant for WRS (p = 0.015). A ceiling effect limited the ability to detect further meaningful differences on speech perception testing., Conclusions: The bilateral CI condition demonstrates equivalent or slightly superior performance compared with the bimodal condition. Several non-speech benefits were elicited from parents as reasons for pursuing a second implant. Close monitoring of the residual acoustic hearing, inquiring about the perceived benefits provided by the HA, and early counseling regarding the potential for sequential bilateral CI are important aspects in determining if and when a second implant is indicated.

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2020
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