Comparing stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions measured by compression, suppression, and spectral smoothing

Stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) have been measured in several different ways, including (1) nonlinear compression, (2) two-tone suppression, and (3) spectral smoothing. Each of the three methods exploits a different cochlear phenomenon or signal-processing technique to extract the emission. The compression method makes use of the compressive growth of emission amplitude relative to the linear growth of the stimulus. The emission is defined as the complex difference between ear-canal pressure measured at one intensity and the rescaled pressure measured at a higher intensity for which the emission is presumed negligible. The suppression method defines the SFOAE as the complex difference between the ear-canal pressure measured with and without a suppressor tone at a nearby frequency. The suppressor tone is presumed to substantially reduce or eliminate the emission. The spectral smoothing method involves convolving the complex ear-canal pressure spectrum with a smoothing function. The analysis exploits the differing latencies of stimulus and emission and is equivalent to windowing in the corresponding latency domain. Although the three methods are generally assumed to yield identical emissions, no equivalence has ever been established. This paper compares human SFOAEs measured with the three methods using procedures that control for temporal drifts, contamination of the calibration by evoked emissions, and other potential confounds. At low stimulus intensities, SFOAEs measured using all three methods are nearly identical. At higher intensities, limitations of the procedures contribute to small differences, although the general spectral shape and phase of the three SFOAEs remain similar. The near equivalence of SFOAEs measured by compression, suppression, and spectral smoothing indicates that SFOAE characteristics are not mere artifacts of measurement methodology.     

烟草(Nicotiana tabacum)原生质体再生成植株及影响植株分化的某些因素

从烟草(品种革新一号)单倍体花粉植株的叶和茎产生的愈伤组织,结合悬浮培养,获得的细胞分离出原生质体。在液体培养基中静置培养,12小时后原生质体开始变为卵圆形,细胞壁明显可见,24小时后完成第一次细胞分裂。以后继续分裂形成浅黄色的愈伤组织,在培养四星期后可达1毫米大小,再放到转床上进行旋转培养18天左右,愈伤组织可达3—4毫米大小。当转移到分化培养基后,分别分化出苗及根,长成完整的植株。 原生质体再生细胞的分裂与分化,不仅受不同器官来源的愈伤组织及其年龄的影响;还受分化培养基的基本成份及所用细胞分裂素的类型等的影响。     

叶轮机械设计自变数在内外环壁面上的限制条件及轴流式叶轮机械S1流面的翘曲

本文利用中心流面法的概念,指出叶轮机械的设计白变数在内、外环壁面上应有附加的限制条件,并导得其具体简明方程。同时,还定性地分析了S₁流面的翘曲情况。     

超导临界温度理论(Ⅰ)

本文求出了Eliashberg方程在T=T_c时的解,得到了下面的临界温度级数表示式: 其中α₀(μ^*),α₁(μ^*)等系数是μ^*的函数.此式表明,T_c不仅依赖于λ,〈ω²〉和μ^*,而且依赖于有效声子谱α²F(ω)的各级矩〈ω²n〉.这是区别于前人的T_c公式最重要的一点。这说明像McMillan以及Allen和Dynes的T_c公式不仅是近似的,而主要是他们没有能正确地概括出α²F(ω)对T_c的影响.     

Experimental investigation of low lying excited states in201Hg

Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and nuclei - The decay of201Tl to201Hg has been investigated withγ- and conversion electron spectroscopic methods. The 26 keV level in201Hg, proposed...     

Testing coherent reflection in chinchilla: Auditory-nerve responses predict stimulus-frequency emissions

Coherent-reflection theory explains the generation of stimulus-frequency and transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions by showing how they emerge from the coherent "backscattering" of forward-traveling waves by mechanical irregularities in the cochlear partition. Recent published measurements of stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) and estimates of near-threshold basilar-membrane (BM) responses derived from Wiener-kernel analysis of auditory-nerve responses allow for comprehensive tests of the theory in chinchilla. Model predictions are based on (1) an approximate analytic expression for the SFOAE signal in terms of the BM traveling wave and its complex wave number, (2) an inversion procedure that derives the wave number from BM traveling waves, and (3) estimates of BM traveling waves obtained from the Wiener-kernel data and local scaling assumptions. At frequencies above 4 kHz, predicted median SFOAE phase-gradient delays and the general shapes of SFOAE magnitude-versus-frequency curves are in excellent agreement with the measurements. At frequencies below 4 kHz, both the magnitude and the phase of chinchilla SFOAEs show strong evidence of interference between short- and long-latency components. Approximate unmixing of these components, and association of the long-latency component with the predicted SFOAE, yields close agreement throughout the cochlea. Possible candidates for the short-latency SFOAE component, including wave-fixed distortion, are considered. Both empirical and predicted delay ratios (long-latency SFOAE delay/BM delay) are significantly less than 2 but greater than 1. Although these delay ratios contradict models in which SFOAE generators couple primarily into cochlear compression waves, they are consistent with the notion that forward and reverse energy propagation in the cochlea occurs predominantly by means of traveling pressure-difference waves. The compelling overall agreement between measured and predicted delays suggests that the coherent-reflection model captures the dominant mechanisms responsible for the generation of reflection-source otoacoustic emissions.     

Auditory sensitivity may require dynamically unstable spike generators: evidence from a model of electrical stimulation

The response of the auditory nerve to electrical stimulation is highly sensitive to small modulations (<0.5%). This report demonstrates that dynamical instability (i.e., a positive Lyapunov exponent) can account for this sensitivity in a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo model of spike generation, so long as the input noise is not too large. This finding suggests both that spike generator instability is necessary to account for auditory nerve sensitivity and that the amplitude of physiological noise, such as that produced by the random behavior of voltage-gated sodium channels, is small. Based on these results with direct electrical stimulation, it is hypothesized that spike generator instability may be the mechanism that reconciles high sensitivity with the cross-fiber independence observed under acoustic stimulation.     

三维光存储中折射率失配引起的球差补偿

为实现三维光存储中折射率失配引起的球差补偿,建立了光学存储系统模型,获得了折射率失配引起的波前偏差函数与存储深度的表达式.采用泽尔尼克循环多项式对波前偏差函数进行补偿展开.在双光子荧光和单光子共焦荧光读出方式下,均可获得读出荧光强度与存储深度的关系:在折射率失配引起的球差未得到补偿矫正的情况下,存储深度在200 μm左右读出荧光强度基本上下降为零;当折射率失配引起的初级球差被补偿矫正后,读出荧光强度随存储深度的下降得到较好改善;当折射率失配引起的二级球差被补偿矫正后,存储深度在1 mm内存储点强度随深度基本上没有明显地变化.并且对像差补偿方法进行了具体地分析.     

高温高密度氦的压缩特性及其结构的分子动力学模拟

用分子动力学方法和不同参数的指数 6势函数计算了T =30 4K的高密度氦的等温压缩线和能量分布 .给出了能精确描述高密度氦原子间相互作用的指数 6势函数优化参数 .并用优化的势函数计算了高密度氦T =30 0K和T =2 98K的等温压缩线 ,计算结果和实验值非常吻合 .进一步用优化的势函数模拟了高温高密度氦的状态方程及其结构 ,发现当把 ρ限定为 1 .6 0g /cm³ 时 ,其径向分布函数的第 2个峰将在 2 0 0 0～ 30 40K区间消失 ,表明此时发生了固 液相变过程 .     

使用色散可调啁啾光纤光栅在常规单模光纤中实现超过100km,10Gb/s的转输 *

报道了用简单的应力方法使均匀光栅成为线性啁啾光纤光栅的技术 ,并推导出了相应理论 ,发现最大色散补偿带宽与色散的乘积近似为常数 .在常规单模光纤G652,10Gb/s系统中实现超过100km的色散补偿 .