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Biomarkers of Peripheral and Central Auditory System Integrity and Function
In hearing impaired patients, neurophysiological measurements are becoming increasingly relevant for diagnostic work-up, therapy indication and treatment monitoring. Objective measures, so-called biomarkers, can help to assess the integrity and function of the peripheral and central auditory system. There are a range of different measurement methods and techniques used in this context. These range from electrophysiological recordings (either with conventional measuring electrodes or, in case of cochlear implant recipients, directly with the implant electrode) to advanced imaging techniques (including magnetic resonance imaging changes to alterations in light absorption when using functional near-infrared spectroscopy). We expect these biomarkers to facilitate therapeutic indication and counselling of patients as well as to provide monitoring tools during (e.g. during cochlear implant insertion) and after therapy (i.e. in the rehabilitation phase).
The Stars My Destination
One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.
The Computer Connection
Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event—a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortal—as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across—recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with group's help, gain control of Extro, the supercomputer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches—which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth.
Alfred Bester
A chronology, study, annotated bibliography of Bester's works, both within and outside of the science fiction genre.
Beacham's Popular Fiction in America
Updates V.1 & V.2 ; Fiction-20th Century Literature.
Dragon Weather
The dragons only emerged from their deep caverns when the weather was right, with thick clouds and sweltering heat. It was on such a day that Arlian's home village was destroyed, his family and friends slaughtered. He survived, though, and swore vengeance on the dragons, and on the looters and slavers who had captured him in the ruins. But no one had ever slain a dragon; how could a mere slave hope to do so?
American Science Fiction
Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.
Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become.
