The BONEBRIDGE active transcutaneous bone conduction implant: effects of location, lifts and screws on sound transmission

Abstract Background The BONEBRIDGE (MED-EL, Innsbruck, Austria) is a bone-conduction implant used in the treatment of conductive and mixed hearing loss.The Scented Sachet BONEBRIDGE consists of an external audio processor and a bone-conduction floating mass transducer that is surgically implanted into the skull in either the transmastoid, retrosigm

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Imperial Paradoxes: A Caliphate for Subaltern Muslims

This article deals with the imperial dilemmas of the globalized racial Muslim identity in the 1870s and the 1880s.While Pan-Islamic public opinion across multiple European empires singled out the Ottoman Caliphate as the voice and representative of the global Muslim community, the Ottoman Caliph-Sultan was the monarch of millions of Christian citiz

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