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Do not mask the mask: use it as a premedicant

Pediatric Anesthesia, 2007
SummaryBackground:  Preoperative anxiety frequently causes resistance to mask application and prolongs induction. Anesthesia masks resembling popular heroes or toys was used to deal with this problem. An anesthesia mask given on a preoperative visit to play with at home, may aid to establish a familiarity with the mask and alleviate mask fear, possibly
Tayfun, Aydin, Levent, Sahin, Cem, Algin, Sahin, Kabay, Mehmet, Yucel, Alper, Hacioglu, Faik, Yaylak, Alev, Kilicoglu   +7 more
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Energetic Masking and Masking Release

2017
Masking is of central interest in the cocktail party problem, because interfering voices may be sufficiently intense or numerous to mask the voice to which the listener is attending, rendering its discourse unintelligible. The definition of energetic masking is problematic, but it may be considered to consist of effects by which an interfering sound ...
Culling, John, Stone, Michael
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Masking of Tinnitus and Central Masking

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1987
In the first experiment reported here, for subjects with sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus, the masking of tinnitus is primarily dependent on the masker intensity; masking is nearly independent of masker frequency. In the second experiment reported here, for subjects with normal hearing, the central masking of a continuous tone (used to stimulate
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The Masked Mapper: Masked Metric Mapping

2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
In this paper, we propose a flexible mapping scheme that uses a masking function (mask) to focus the attention of a pose graph SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system. The masking function takes the robot’s observations and returns true if the robot is in an important location.
Acshi Haggenmiller, Cameron Kabacinski, Maximilian Krogius, Edwin Olson   +3 more
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What's in a Mask? Information Masking with Forward and Backward Visual Masks

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2011
Three experiments tested how the physical format and information content of forward and backward masks affected the extent of visual pattern masking. This involved using different types of forward and backward masks with target discrimination measured by percentage correct in the first experiment (with a fixed target duration) and by an adaptive ...
Davis, Chris, Kim, Jeesun
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Mask in the Mirror: The Living Mask Illusion

Perception, 2011
Self-perception in a mirror is a dynamic process involving self-motion and autonomous self-exploratory control of facial poses and expressions.In a previous work, apparitions of strange faces in the mirror were experienced, often as other beings appearing in place of one's own face.
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Seeing (through) masks: An exploration of masks and mask making

Visual Anthropology, 2000
In the form of a collage I juxtapose my experience of mask‐making with various interpretations of the nature and meaning of masks in order to explore the questions of whether masks can have meaning for those outside the culture of origin and whether encountering cultural artifacts like masks can enhance our own self‐understanding. I conclude, with some
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“To mask, or not to mask, that is the question”: COVID (Anti)Masking and Comics

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
ABSTRACT While masks have functioned as important cultural artifacts, religious symbols, costume pieces, and components of social identity throughout history, in the current biopsychosocial context (of the COVID-19 pandemic), they predominantly refer to medical masks. This article, after reviewing the comprehensive and complex history
Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Sathyaraj Venkatesan   +1 more
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An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
Gregory L Watson, Anne W Rimoin
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COVID-19: Performance study of microplastic inhalation risk posed by wearing masks

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021
Xiaoli Zhao, Lu Li
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