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L L Young

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PubMed1976

Time-intensity trading functions for selected pure tones.

A substantial number of investigations have examined the ability of the auditory system to trade time for intensity on a lateralization task. Most of these investigations, however, have employed clicks and noise bursts as stimuli with interaural disparities between onset times. Consequently, there is a lack of quantitative data for time-intensity trades where pure tones that had identical onset times but disparate phase were employed as signals. For this reason we employed sinusoids ranging from 200 to 2000 Hz and determined the extent to which the intensity of one signal must be decreased to achieve a midline image when interaural phase disparities of 0 degrees to 360 degrees were imposed between the binaural signals in 30 degree increments. The time-intensity trading functions yielded in this experiment demonstrate that (1) not unexpectedly, the largest time-intensity trades were accomplished for the lower frequencies; (2) the maximum time-intensity trade for each frequency occurred at interaural phase disparities of 90 degrees and 270 degrees; and (3) when the low-frequency tones were 180 degrees out of phase, essentially the same intraaural intensity relationship was required to achieve midline as was needed for the 0 degree interaural phase condition.

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Effects of whitening and peak-clipping on speech intelligibility in the presence of a competing message.

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of peak clipping on speech intelligibility when both a target speech and a competing message were simultaneously peak-clipped. A competing message composed of 5 talkers was electrically mixed with CNC discrimination words. This composite signal was presented to normally hearing subjects in three ways: unmodified, whitened, and whitened and peak-clipped. Discrimination functions were obtained for the CNC material by varying the signal-to-competition ratio. Under these conditions, essentially identical discrimination functions were yielded by the unmodified and whitened speech, whereas substantially reduced discrimination scores were obtained with the whitened/clipped speech. These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present. This is true even though earlier studies have shown that whitening and peak clipping do not reduce speech intelligibility when only a single talker is present. Such a finding has implications for wearable amplification.

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LEA.135 expression: its comparison with other prognostic biomarkers for patients with primary breast carcinoma.

The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the prognostic value of expression of luminal epithelial antigen (LEA.135) for recurrence and overall survival of patients with primary invasive breast carcinoma by both univariate and multivariate analyses. The possible prognostic value of LEA.135 was also compared with some widely utilized prognostic biomarkers such as c-erbB 2, topoisomerase II.alpha (TPII.alpha), MIB 1, estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR), as well as age of the patients and clinicopathologic parameters. The study was carried out by immunohistochemical methods on formalin-fixed/paraffin-embedded tissue sections in a series of 225 patients with median follow-up of 8.5 years. Prognostic significance of the biomarkers was determined by two-sided p value. In this series of patients, among the age and clinicopathologic parameters, only age, was significantly associated with a decreased overall survival (logrank p = 0.027). Among the prognostic biomarkers, TPII a expression at high (> 50% positive cells) or moderate (6-50% positive cells) level was associated with an increased rate of recurrence (logrank p < 0.001). However, the association of TPII.alpha expression with a decreased overall survival failed to reach a statistically significance. Expression of c-erbB 2 showed a trend of being associated with an increased probability of recurrence, but the association did not reach statistical significance. The remaining biomarkers were not associated with either the probability of recurrence or overall survival. LEA.135 expression was observed in 163 (72.4%) of the 225 patients. The patients with high (> 50% positive cells) or moderate (6-50% positive cells) level of LEA.135-positive cancer cells showed a significantly decreased probability of recurrence (logrank p < 0.001) and an increased overall survival (logrank p < 0.001) compared with those with LEA.135-negative cancer cells. The association remained significant by multivariate analysis for recurrence (likelihood ratio test p < 0.001) and overall survival (likelihood ratio test p < 0.001) when assessed with other prognostic parameters. Furthermore, the combination of LEA.135 with other prognostic biomarkers stratified four subgroups of patients with distinct clinical outcome. The subgroup of patients who were LEA.135+/TPII.alpha- showed the lowest probability of recurrence and the longest overall survival compared with those who were LEA.135-/TPII.alpha+ (logrank p < 0.001). Interestingly, the patients whose cancer cells were LEA.135+/TPII.alpha+, LEA.135+ MIB.1+ or LEA.135+/c-erbB 2+ experienced a decreased probability of recurrence and an increased overall survival compared with those with LEA.135-/TPII.alpha+, LEA.135- MIB.1+ or LEA.135-/c-erbB 2+ (logrank p < 0.001). The results demonstrated that LEA.135 is an independent and favorable prognostic biomarker for patients with primary invasive breast carcinoma, that the loss of LEA.135 expression is associated with aggressive phenotype of cancer cells during the breast cancer progression, and that its continued expression seems to override the adverse effects of expression of an oncogene or cell proliferation-associated molecules.

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Rapid headspace gas chromatographic method for assessment of oxidative stability of cooked chicken meat.

Experiments were conducted to determine the volatile compounds in cooked chicken meat using a static headspace gas chromatographic (GC) technique. Preheating conditions for samples in vials were tested at 70, 80, and 90 degrees C for 20-120 min at each temperature. The majority of the peaks increased in size as the temperature and time increased. Optimum conditions were established as preheating at 80 degrees C for 30 min followed by analysis on a packed column of 8% Poly MPE on Tenax GC with the temperature programmed from 50 to 200 degrees C at 10 degrees/min. Coefficients of variation for major peaks ranged from 8.3 to 14.7%. These results were compared with those obtained with a capillary column analysis of samples preheated at the same conditions. Cooked and stored chicken patties, pretreated with different levels of sodium tripolyphosphate, were analyzed by the thiobarbituric acid (TBA) method and the headspace GC technique. Significant positive correlations were obtained between TBA numbers and the areas of 3 major peaks of the headspace profiles, indicating the applicability of the rapid headspace GC method for the determination of oxidative changes in chicken meat.

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The intelligibility of whitened and peak clipped speech.

Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic words were filltered such that each spectral component had equal energy (i.e., "whitened") and peak clipped in one of four ways: minimal, 20, 30, and 40 dB of clipping. In addition, unmodified consonant-nucleus-consonant words were used as stimuli. These different types of sppech were presented to 20 persons with normal hearing at various sensation levels. The results indicate that whitening and peak clipping do not substantially degrade speech intelligibility. In fact, under some conditions whitening and peak clipping may slightly enhance intelligibility.

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