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The Effect of the Use of Hearing Aids in Elders: Perspectives
Audiology Research, 2022 Older adults with hearing loss have difficulties during conversation with others because an elevated auditory threshold reduces speech intelligibility, especially in noisy environments.
Daniele Monzani +9 more
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Combining face detection and novelty to identify important events in a visual lifelog [PDF]
, 2008 The SenseCam is a passively capturing wearable camera, worn around the neck and takes an average of almost 2,000 images per day, which equates to over 650,000 images per year.
Doherty, Aiden R., Smeaton, Alan F.
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Trials, 2017 Background Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common ongoing health problem that places patients at risk of stroke. Whether and how a patient addresses this risk depends on each patient’s goals, context, and values.
Marleen Kunneman +14 more
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Gene Conversion may aid Adaptive Peak Shifts
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2000 Gene conversion is often viewed as a homogenizing force that opposes adaptive evolution. The objective of this study is to suggest a potential role for gene conversion in adaptive evolution of proteins through aiding the transfer of a population from one adaptive peak to another. Our hypothesis starts with the observation that a tandem gene duplication
T F, Hansen, A J, Carter, C H, Chiu
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Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2023 Through evolution, humans have adapted their interactions to face-to-face communication, supported by a network of neural systems which facilitate the transmission and interpretation of social signals for successful communication.
Raul Sacristan, Sam Royle, Adam Galpin
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2018 Objective: To assess the extent to which (1) clinicians, using or not using conversation aids, foster choice awareness during clinical encounters and (2) fostering choice awareness, with or without conversation aids, is associated with greater patient ...
Marleen Kunneman, PhD +4 more
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Towards the improvement of augmentative and alternative communication through the modelling of conversation [PDF]
, 2013 Non-speaking people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems typically have low rates of communication which reduces their ability to interact with others.
Alm, Norman, Arnott, John L.
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PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system [PDF]
, 2004 This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting
Whalley, Ian
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MJM MedTalks (S02E01): DIY Automated Insulin Delivery
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023 McGill Journal of Medicine (MJM) MedTalks is a Podcast series where members of the medical and health science communities from McGill are interviewed on topics related to career, research, advocacy and more.
Meryem K. Talbo +13 more
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Technologies, 2018 Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid (CIRCA)is an interactive conversation support for people living with dementia. CIRCA facilitates one-to-one conversations and caregiving relationships in formal care environments.
Sarah K. Smith, Arlene J. Astell
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