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Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in the world, and most frequently it originates in the inner ear. Yet, the inner ear has been difficult to access for diagnosis because of its small size, delicate nature, complex three-dimensional anatomy, and encasement in the densest bone in the body. Evolving optical methods are promising to afford cellular diagnosis of pathologic changes in the inner ear. To appropriately interpret results from these emerging technologies, it is important to characterize optical properties of cochlear tissues. Here, we focus on that characterization using quantitative polarized light microscopy (qPLM) applied to unstained cochlear sections of the mouse, a common animal model of human hearing loss. We find that the most birefringent cochlear materials are collagen fibrils and myelin. Retardance of the otic capsule, the spiral ligament, and the basilar membrane are substantially higher than that of other cochlear structures. Retardance of the spiral ligament and the basilar membrane decrease from the cochlear base to the apex, compared with the more uniform retardance of other structures. The intricate structural details revealed by qPLM of unstained cochlear sections ex vivo strongly motivate future application of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography to human cochlea in vivo.
Neil M. Kalwani ; Cheng Ai Ong ; Andrew C. Lysaght ; Simon J. Haward ; Gareth H. McKinley, et al."Quantitative polarized light microscopy of unstained mammalian cochlear sections", J. Biomed. Opt. 18(2), 026021 (Feb 13, 2013). ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.18.2.026021
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AN apprentice mechanic who was trapped underneath a car for 45 minutes said he felt 'lucky to be alive'.
Richard Palmer, 19, of Arran Avenue, Blackburn, was underneath his cousin's Fiat Punto, welding on the exhaust when it rolled off the ramp, trapping him under the one-tonne vehicle.
Doctors have been left baffled as to how he came out of the incident with only a burn on his left shoulder, caused by the exhaust pressing against it.
The incident happened at his home, in Arran Avenue, at 12.30am yesterday when the car rolled off the ramp, trapping Mr Palmer underneath.
Mr Palmer, who is on a mechanic apprenticeship with Training 2000, said: "When the car rolled onto me it was a real shock.
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A spokesman for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were called to an incident at around 12.45am.
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The Australian arm of scandal-hit media giant News Corp was "perfectly good", Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said as he called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to "put up or shut up" over questions she wanted answered by News Ltd.
"There is no evidence whatsoever that any of the practices, the reprehensible practices, that we saw at one newspaper in England have any currency here in Australia," he told reporters at an event at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne on Thursday.
"I don't think we should assume that Britain's problems are Australia's problems and I don't think we should assume that Britain's solutions are Australia's solutions."
British tabloid News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International, was closed earlier this month as revelations it had hacked into the voicemails of celebrities, politicians spread to include those of a murdered schoolgirl and victims of the 2005 London suicide bombings.
The scandal, which forced News Corp to abandon its bid for the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn't own, has also claimed the jobs of Britain's two top policemen amid revelations the paper paid police for information, and led to the death of a former News of the World journalist.
Mr Abbott's comments came as Southern Cross Austereo chief executive Rhys Holleran said he did not see the need for another media inquiry in response to the scandal, as proposed by Australian Greens leader Bob Brown.
"When something happens overseas it doesn't necessarily mean that it should all necessarily apply to Australia," Mr Holleran said on Thursday.
"Australia has got a really good and vigorous broadcasting regime."
Ms Gillard on Wednesday said Australians had been disturbed by the events unfolding in Britain and wanted to see News Ltd "answer some hard questions".
Mr Abbott said Ms Gillard should detail exactly what questions she wanted answered.
"If she can't specify what those questions are, what she is doing is just smearing a perfectly good organisation," Mr Abbott said.
"Prime Ministers of Australia should be better than that, and I call on the Prime Minister to put up or shut up."
News International is a subsidiary of the US-incorporated News Corp, of which Mr Murdoch is chairman and chief executive. News Ltd, News Corp's Australian arm, owns The Australian newspaper and other mastheads.
FolIowing the UK scandal, the Australian government on Thursday proposed new privacy legislation and will release an issues paper soon.
Mr Abbott said he would look at the privacy proposals on their merits but he would never support any attempt to bluff the media out of doing its job, which, he said, "is to hold bad governments to account".
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Challenging our assumptions about the way things are and can be.
The 2012-13 SOAC Focus Series theme of empowerment explores the creative and artistic dimensions of the social process that fosters power in people for use in their own lives, communities and in their societies, by acting on issues they define as important.
The focus series brings together SOAC's talented students and faculty to focus on a common theme through a multi-disciplinary approach. These events present each discipline – Art & Design, Communication, Music and Theatre – dynamically interpreting "empowerment" through the panorama of their respective discipline. Each year, the theme selected will be relevant, timely, and appropriate to the mission of SOAC and PLU.
Friday, March 8: How I Learned to Drive
In the play, How I Learned to Drive, the audience is urged to examine their relationship with the term "empowerment" and what it means to them as individuals.
Thursday, March 14: Art and the Holocaust: Understanding Aesthetic Experience as Empowerment
What role can the experience of art play in our understanding of the Holocaust? Including a performance of Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time"
Thursday, April 11: Beyond Burkas and Bombers: Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
With this film, the MediaLab team opens a discussion about a largely marginalized portion of American society and explores how Islam is defined in America, and how they might hope to counter negative stereotypes.
Saturday, May 11: Cosmosis
The University Wind Ensemble and University Singers perform "Cosmosis", a composition about how the quest for scientific discovery has empowered and shaped our society for our entire history.
March 8, 2013 – 7:30 pm
How I Learned to Drive
How I Learned to Drive urges us to examine our own relationship with the term "empowerment" and what it means to us as individuals. As the play shifts the balance between victimization and empowerment, it makes simple judgment impossible as no character is painted as a clear victim. The play is strong, because it challenges our point of view.
A post-performance discussion will be held immediately following the show. Meet with members of the artistic staff and cast and gain insight into the author's work and production process. The audience is encouraged to participate in this open format, and offer their own insight, experiences or questions relating to empowerment.
March 14, 2013 – 3:40pm
Art and the Holocaust: Understanding Aesthetic Experience as Empowerment
Professor Heather Mathews, Lecturer
Location: Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center
What role can the experience of art play in our understanding of the Holocaust? In this session, we examine artworks as tools of empowerment, from the point of view of both the victim and the descendants of the perpetrators. We look first at paintings and objects made post-war to address the issue of German guilt, and end with a performance of Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" by PLU faculty members – Cameron Bennett, piano, Svend Rønning, violin, Craig Rine, clarinet, and Richard Treat, cello. This work was premiered during World War II in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany, outdoors and in the rain, on January 15, 1941 to an audience of fellow prisoners and guards. Messiaen performed on piano with musicians he met on the journey to the camp. This event is held in conjunction with the 2013 Holocaust Conference.
April 11, 2013 – 7pm
Beyond Burkas and Bombers: Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
Presented by MediaLab
In the past decade since the tragic events of September 11, anti-Muslim sentiment has become increasingly prevalent in America. This phenomenon, referred to by many as "Islamophobia," has lead to a significant fear of an unknown and largely misunderstood world religion. By 2010, TIME Magazine reported that an astonishing 62 percent of Americans had still never met a Muslim, however much of the American population holds an opinion of this group.
With the production of this empowering film, the award-winning MediaLab team has set out to open a discussion about a largely marginalized portion of American society, explore how Islam is defined in America, and to counter negative impressions and stereotypes. While empowerment can be difficult to implement effectively, it can begin with the simple act of creating a personal connection to breakdown harmful stereotypes. Delving into their own personal experiences with Islamophobia, award-winning Muslim comedians Dean Obeidallah and The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi explain comedy's role in combating media's negative portrayal of the American Muslim minority. The MediaLab production team, made up of students from across SOAC and various departments at PLU, goes one step further to empower the audience. During the event, follow us on Twitter with the hashtag #beyondbombers and lend your voice to the conversation.
Watch from anywhere – we'll be streaming live.
Location: The Studio Theater in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
May 11, 2013 – 8 pm
Cosmosis: University Wind Ensemble, University Singers
Susan Botti, Composer
Edwin Powell and Brian Galante, Directors
Cosmosis composer, Susan Botti, sets two texts by American poet May Swenson. The first movement uses the text of "Overboard," and musically depicts the effects of gravity.
In the second and third movements, the effects of gravity are released as Botti sets Swenson's fictional musings on the first American space station, Skylab, and an experiment to test if a spider could spin a web in space. Though Skylab ultimately lost orbital integrity and came crashing to Earth, the lessons learned shaped future space missions. The quest for scientific discovery has empowered and shaped our society for our entire history. We discover valuable things through triumph in discovery and learning through failure.
This is a multi-media production. In the third part of the performance join us in the Mary Baker Russell Amphitheater for a science lab.
Location: Lagerquist Concert Hall, MBR
Tickets: $8 general admission, $5 senior citizens (55+), $3 alumni, free 18 and under. Tickets available at PLU Concierge Desk (253 535 7411)


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A charming Grade II Listed attached barn conversion situated in a lovely semi-rural position on the edge of the village with westerly views across fields. Thought to date from around 1860, the property forms part of a small courtyard development that was converted for residential use in the early 1990s. The property retains many period details including exposed timber beams, arched and oculus windows and fish-scale roof tiles whilst the interior now incorporates hardwood window frames, quarry tile flooring, Corian kitchen work surfaces and contemporary bathroom suites.
Configured over three levels with galleried landings and many exposed structural timbers, the property offers versatile accommodation with two reception rooms on the lower ground floor with a kitchen/breakfast room overlooking the dining room and a study/bed 4 on the raised ground floor. The principal bedroom with en suite shower room, two further bedrooms and a family bathroom are all situated on the first floor.
Upton St Leonards is a thriving village community situated at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment and encompassing the adjacent hamlets of Portway and Nuthill. The Village Hall and Church are at the heart of the community along with a range of local shops, a Post Office, playgroup and the Kings Head public house whilst the Bowden Hall and Hatton Court Hotels offer alternative dining venues. Gloucester City centre, approximately 3 miles distant, offers a comprehensive selection of recreational, commercial and retail facilities. Upton Primary School has a "Good" rating and there is an excellent range of state and independent schools, including four grammar schools, available in Gloucester. The recreation ground is home to many clubs including tennis, cricket and football teams. In the wider area, events include golf at Gloucester and Painswick Golf Clubs, polo at Longdole and Cirencester Park, skiing at Gloucester Ski Centre, racing at Prestbury Park and sailing at the Cotswold Water Park, together with shooting and fishing on local estates.
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America's Historical Imprints is a digital collection containing virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America over a 200-year period. It is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties, and more. Scanned pages available as JPEG, TIFF, and PDF.
American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress's digitized American historical materials, organized into more than 100 thematic collections. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each collection provides explanatory features to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or searched across multiple collections. 1400s-present.
American Journeys indexes the full text of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. Includes more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives. 1000s-1840s
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Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Feb 29, 2012
How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the international CERN team responsible for experiment NA63 - mainly staffed by physicists from Aarhus University - has now succeeded in dragging out the process, thereby making it measurable.
They achieved this by utilising the phenomena of objects moving slower and shortening in length from Einstein's theory of relativity, along with two pieces of gold foil and a micrometre screw.
In Niels Bohr's atom model, electrons orbit around the nucleus in 'shells' - the so-called stationary states. Light is emitted by a quantum leap between a high-lying shell and one nearer the nucleus.
However, it is impossible to find the electron between the two shells, so it could be thought that the light emission process itself was instantaneous: the electron is in the outer shell and immediately after sending out light, it is in the inner one.
However, Associate Professor Ulrik I. Uggerhoj, PhD student Kristoffer K. Andersen, Aarhus University, and the other NA63 members actually found that it takes the electron a measurable amount of time to emit light.
By letting the electron pass two very flat gold foils stretched out at a distance that can be measured with a precision of a few micrometres, they can 'force' the electron to emit shortwave light in a well-defined area. The distance between the foils corresponds to the length taken to form the light.
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An echo particle image velocimetry (EPIV) system capable of acquiring two-dimensional fields of velocity in optically opaque fluids or through optically opaque geometries is described, and validation measurements in pipe flow are reported.
Date Published: 12/27/2012, Issue 70; doi: 10.3791/4265
Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Issue 70, Physics, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Ultrasound, cross correlation, velocimetry, opaque fluids, particle, flow, fluid, EPIV
DeMarchi, N., White, C. Echo Particle Image Velocimetry. J. Vis. Exp. (70), e4265, doi:10.3791/4265 (2012).
The transport of mass, momentum, and energy in fluid flows is ultimately determined by spatiotemporal distributions of the fluid velocity field.1 Consequently, a prerequisite for understanding, predicting, and controlling fluid flows is the capability to measure the velocity field with adequate spatial and temporal resolution.2 For velocity measurements in optically opaque fluids or through optically opaque geometries, echo particle image velocimetry (EPIV) is an attractive diagnostic technique to generate "instantaneous" two-dimensional fields of velocity.3,4,5,6 In this paper, the operating protocol for an EPIV system built by integrating a commercial medical ultrasound machine7 with a PC running commercial particle image velocimetry (PIV) software8 is described, and validation measurements in Hagen-Poiseuille (i.e., laminar pipe) flow are reported.
For the EPIV measurements, a phased array probe connected to the medical ultrasound machine is used to generate a two-dimensional ultrasound image by pulsing the piezoelectric probe elements at different times. Each probe element transmits an ultrasound pulse into the fluid, and tracer particles in the fluid (either naturally occurring or seeded) reflect ultrasound echoes back to the probe where they are recorded. The amplitude of the reflected ultrasound waves and their time delay relative to transmission are used to create what is known as B-mode (brightness mode) two-dimensional ultrasound images. Specifically, the time delay is used to determine the position of the scatterer in the fluid and the amplitude is used to assign intensity to the scatterer. The time required to obtain a single B-mode image, t, is determined by the time it take to pulse all the elements of the phased array probe. For acquiring multiple B-mode images, the frame rate of the system in frames per second (fps) = 1/δt. (See 9 for a review of ultrasound imaging.)
For a typical EPIV experiment, the frame rate is between 20-60 fps, depending on flow conditions, and 100-1000 B-mode images of the spatial distribution of the tracer particles in the flow are acquired. Once acquired, the B-mode ultrasound images are transmitted via an ethernet connection to the PC running the PIV commercial software. Using the PIV software, tracer particle displacement fields, D(x,y)[pixels], (where x and y denote horizontal and vertical spatial position in the ultrasound image, respectively) are acquired by applying cross correlation algorithms to successive ultrasound B-mode images.10 The velocity fields, u(x,y)[m/s], are determined from the displacements fields, knowing the time step between image pairs, ΔT[s], and the image magnification, M[meter/pixel], i.e., u(x,y) = MD(x,y)/ΔT. The time step between images ΔT = 1/fps + D(x,y)/B, where B[pixels/s] is the time it takes for the ultrasound probe to sweep across the image width. In the present study, M = 77[μm/pixel], fps = 49.5[1/s], and B = 25,047[pixels/s]. Once acquired, the velocity fields can be analyzed to compute flow quantities of interest.
1. Create a Measurable Flow
2. Calibrate the Ultrasound
3. Data Collection
4. Converting Filetype
5. Computing Displacement Fields, D(x, y), Using DaVis
6. Analyzing Vector Fields
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An instantaneous echo particle image velocimetry (EPIV) vector field is shown in Figure 3. The vector plot shows velocity vectors every fourth column, and the background color contour map corresponds to velocity magnitude. An ensemble average vector plot averaged over 1000 instantaneous EPIV vector plots is shown in Figure 4. Consistent with pipe flow, the velocity vectors are primarily in the streamwise direction, the largest velocities occur at the pipe centerline, and the velocities decrease to zero at the pipe walls. The root-mean-square (rms) velocity magnitude fluctuation is shown in Figure 5. Since in Hagen-Poiseuille flow, the rms velocities should be identically zero, the non-zero rms velocities provide a measure of the noise in the EPIV measurements. The high rms values near the upper wall results from strong reflection and refraction of the ultrasound beam from the pipe wall that produce high image intensities in this region (see Figure 2). These high intensities near the walls obscure particle intensities leading to measurement errors. The wall-normal profile of mean streamwise velocity computed by averaging the ensemble-averaged vector plot along the rows (horizontal direction) is plotted in Figure 6. The solid black line is the expected mean streamwise velocity profile for Hagen-Poiseuille (laminar pipe) flow for the given experimental conditions. The agreement between the EPIV measurements and the expected Hagen-Poiseuille profile is best near the pipe centerline and worst near the pipe walls, with the largest deviations occurring near the top wall. We are presently working on methods to reduce the ultrasound reflection and refraction at the pipe wall and to improve the near-wall EPIV measurements.
Figure 1. Schematic of the experimental setup. An aquarium pump drives the fluid (seeded with 10 μm glass microspheres) in a closed loop piping system. The linear ultrasound probe is affixed to the exterior pipe wall and transmits ultrasound waves through the pipe and receives echoes reflected from the 10 μm glass microspheres and the pipe walls. The ultrasound machine processes the reflected ultrasound waves to form an ultrasound B-mode image. The ultrasound B-mode images are exported to a PC running commercial PIV software.
Figure 2. Raw ultrasound B-mode image of pipe flow. The high intensity band of lines at the top and bottom of the image correspond to the pipe wall and the ellipsoids interior to the wall correspond to the 10 m hollow glass microspheres.
Figure 3. An instantaneous vector plot showing vector arrows every fourth column. The background color contour map corresponds to velocity magnitude. D is the pipe diameter, x is the streamwise position measured from the pipe inlet, and d is the radial position measured from the upper wall.
Figure 4. Ensemble average vector plot averaged over 1000 instantaneous EPIV vector plots. The vector plot shows velocity vectors every fourth column, and the background color contour map corresponds to velocity magnitude. Consistent with pipe flow, the velocity vectors point in the streamwise direction, the largest velocities occur at the pipe centerline, and the velocities decrease to zero at the pipe walls.
Figure 5. Contour plot of the root-mean-square (rms) velocity fluctuation computed over 1000 instantaneous EPIV vector plots. In Hagen-Poiseuille flow, the rms velocity fluctuations provide a measure of noise in the EPIV measurements.
Figure 6. The experimental measured mean streamwise velocity profile computed from the ensemble-averaged EPIV vector field shown in Figure 4. The solid black line is the theoretically expected profile for a Hagen-Poiseuille flow with the same volumetric flow rate as measured experimentally. The radial position measured from the pipe centerline is denoted by r, where the upper wall corresponds to r/D = -0.5. Differences between the experimental profile and the expected profile illustrate the difficulty of near-wall EPIV measurements.
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The operating protocol for an echo particle image velocimetry (EPIV) system capable of acquiring two-dimensional fields of velocity in optically opaque fluids or through optically opaque geometries was described. Practical application of EPIV is well-suited for the study of industrial and biological flow systems, where the flow of opaque fluids occurs in a great many application. The particular system presented here was purposefully built to study the flow properties of liquefied biomass fluids used in the production of lignocellulosic ethanol. The capabilities of EPIV were demonstrated using representative measurements in pipe flow. In particular, mean and rms velocity profiles were computed from EPIV vector fields, Hagen-Poiseuille (laminar) pipe flow was shown to be measurable and quantifiable. The limitations of EPIV are the inherently low frame rates (limited by the imaging capabilities of the commercial ultrasound system) and low spatial resolution, which limits the range of velocities and transient flow behavior that can be measured. Lastly, although we have strived to make the article self-contained, the user manuals for the commercial ultrasound machine7 and the PIV software8 should be consulted for completeness. The reader is also referred to 9 and 10 for a comprehensive review of ultrasound imaging fundamentals and particle image velocimetry, respectively.
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Authors have nothing to disclose.
The authors gratefully acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation, CBET0846359, grant monitor Horst Henning Winter.
|Catalog Number
|Ultrasound Machine
|Vivid 7 Pro
|Linear Ultrasound Array
|DC Water Pump
|Vector Processing Software
|DaVis 7.2
|Post Processing Software
|Acrylic Tubing
|Ultrasound Gel
|Aquasonic 100
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