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Section I: External Ear and Middle Ear.- The human external and middle ear: Models and concepts..- Modeling reverse middle ear transmission of acoustic distortion signals..- Recent developments in modelling the eardrum and related structures using the finite-element method..- Section II: Cochlear Fluid Mechanics.- Basilar membrane properties and cochlear response..- On vibration of membranes in the mammalian cochlea..- Pseudo-resonance in the mammalian cochlea..- Simultaneous amplitude and phase match of cochlear model calculations and basilar membrane vibration data..- Advantages from describing cochlear mechanics in terms of energy flow..- Section III: Cochlear Emissions.- An integrated view of cochlear mechanical nonlinearities observable from the ear canal..- Modelling cochlear echoes: The influence of irregularities in frequency mapping on summed cochlear activity..- Critical behaviour of auditory oscillators near feedback phase transitions..- Two aspects of cochlear acoustic emissions: Response latency and minimum stimulus energy..- Section IV: Active Systems.- The cochlear amplifier..- Electromechanical processes in the cochlea..- A non-linear feedback model for outer-haircell stereocilia and its implications for the response of the auditory periphery..- Wave reflection in passive and active cochlea models..- Modelling an active, nonlinear cochlea..- Nonlinear and active modelling of cochlear mechanics: A precarious affair..- Section V: Nonlinear Micromechanics.- Experimental and topographic morphology in cochlear mechanics..- Results from a cochlear model utilizing longitudinal coupling..- An interpretation of the sharp tuning of the basilar membrane mechanical response..- Section VI: Special Topics.- Thermal and quantum noise in the inner ear..- A hair cell model of neural response..- Static point-load measurements of basilar membrane compliance..- Problems in aural sound conduction..