United Kingdom national paediatric bilateral project: Results of professional rating scales and parent questionnaires.

Objectives: This fourteen-centre project used professional rating scales and parent questionnaires to assess longitudinal outcomes in a large non-selected population of children receiving simultaneous and sequential bilateral cochlear implants.

Methods: This was an observational non-randomized service evaluation. Data were collected at four time points: before bilateral cochlear implants or before the sequential implant, one year, two years, and three years after.

United Kingdom national paediatric bilateral project: Demographics and results of localization and speech perception testing.

Objectives: To assess longitudinal outcomes in a large and varied population of children receiving bilateral cochlear implants both simultaneously and sequentially.

Methods: This observational non-randomized service evaluation collected localization and speech recognition in noise data from simultaneously and sequentially implanted children at four time points: before bilateral cochlear implants or before the sequential implant, 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years after bilateral implants. No inclusion criteria were applied, so children with additional difficulties, cochleovestibular anomalies, varying educational placements, 23 different home languages, a full range of outcomes and varying device use were included.

Shoot δ(15)N and δ (13)C values of non-host Brassica rapa change when exposed to ±Glomus etunicatum inoculum and three levels of phosphorus and nitrogen.

Glasshouse experiments were conducted to study the response of non-host Brassica rapa and host Sorghum bicolor to inoculation with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) Glomus etunicatum when given different levels of N (0.9 mmol kg(-1) sand, 2.7 mmol kg(-1) sand, 8.

Measurement of cyclosporine concentrations in whole blood: HPLC and radioimmunoassay with a specific monoclonal antibody and 3H- or 125I-labeled ligand compared.

We compared cyclosporine concentrations in whole blood as measured by HPLC and by RIA with a monoclonal antibody specific for cyclosporine with 3H- or 125I-labeled cyclosporine ligand. The 3H-RIA kit slightly underestimated cyclosporine concentrations (greater than 600 micrograms/L) in comparison with HPLC. Over a wide range of concentrations, cyclosporine measured with the 125I-RIA kit correlated well with HPLC (slope = 0.