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Journal of Aging and Health, 2019 Background: This study recruited older adults to explore physical and psychosocial conditions and other health outcomes associated with hearing loss (HL) and hearing aid use.
T. Wells +6 more
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Hearing Aids and the Brain [PDF]
International Journal of Otolaryngology, 2014 At the heart of most rehabilitation programs for people with hearing loss is the use of amplification. The purpose of hearing aid amplification is to improve a person's access to sound. Depending on the degree and configuration of the individual's hearing loss, the hearing aid is tasked with increasing sound levels at different frequency regions to ...
J. R. Sullivan +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Single‐cell RNA sequencing reveals an opposite role of SLPI in basal tumors based on metastatic spread, along with shared activation of specific regulons in cancer cells and mature luminal lactocytes, as well as downregulation of MALAT1 and NEAT1 in the latter.
Pietro Ancona +4 more
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Decision support system to help choose between an ITE or a BTE hearing aid [PDF]
, 2011 A decision support system (DSS) is used for analysing a situation and making decisions. The goal of this research is to mine a large set of heterogeneous audiology data and create a DSS to help audiology technicians to choose between an ITE or BTE ...
Babi, Douglas, Gani, Kalakul
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Spatial Hearing and Hearing Aids [PDF]
, 2016 The questions of whether hearing-impaired listeners are also impaired for the localization of sounds and what benefits hearing aids can provide are important for understanding the wider effects of hearing impairment. We review here 29 studies published since 1983 that have measured acuity for changes in the horizontal-plane direction of sound sources ...
Michael A. Akeroyd, William M. Whitmer
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Card games are effective tools to enhance foundation year health and safety inductions
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.A series of three card games was developed to actively deliver health and safety education to foundation year students. Most students reported positive responses regarding their enjoyment (89.9 %) and learning (74.7 %) from all games evaluated. Data revealed significant improvements in health and safety knowledge (P < 0.0001).
Rumana Rafiq +4 more
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Hearing aid malfunction detection system [PDF]
, 1977 A malfunction detection system for detecting malfunctions in electrical signal processing circuits is disclosed. Malfunctions of a hearing aid in the form of frequency distortion and/or inadequate amplification by the hearing aid amplifier, as well as ...
Kessinger, R. L.
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JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2019 Importance Hearing loss is highly prevalent in the rapidly growing and aging Hispanic/Latino population in the United States. However, little is known or understood about hearing aid use among US adults from Hispanic/Latino backgrounds.
Michelle L. Arnold +8 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Stroke is a leading cause of long‐term disability in adults, with upper limb hemiparesis being a common impairment. Traditional training is mostly aimed at paralyzed limbs, but the effect of bilateral training is still unclear.
Fangfang Qian +7 more
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Predictors of entering a hearing aid evaluation period: a prospective study in older hearing-help seekers [PDF]
, 2017 This study aimed to determine the predictors of entering a hearing aid evaluation period (HAEP) using a prospective design drawing on the health belief model and the transtheoretical model.
Deeg, Dorly J.H. +5 more
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