Factors for Determining Preferred Levels of Portable Listening Device

Comparing two methods to measure preferred listening levels of personal listening devices.

The potential risk to hearing that mass-storage personal listening devices (PLDs) pose remains unclear. Previous research in this area has either focused on maximum outputs of these devices or on ear-canal measurements of listening levels that could not be compared to standards of occupational noise exposure. The purpose of this study was to compare two standard measurement protocols [ISO 11904...

Design and Fabrication of a Portable 1-DOF Robotic Device for Indentation Tests

There are many tactile devices for indentation examinations to measure mechanical properties of tissue. The purpose of this paper is to develop a portable indentation robotic device to show its usability for measuring the mechanical properties of a healthy abdominal tissue. These measurements will help to develop suitable mathematical models representing abdominal tissue. A 1-DOF portable robot...

Prediction of aided preferred listening levels for hearing aid gain prescription.

Relative accuracy was assessed for two methods for predicting preferred listening levels as estimated by measurements of the upper limit of the comfortable loudness range (ULCL). Sixteen hearing-impaired subjects provided ULCL data for eight test stimuli on each of five occasions. The stimuli were four narrow bands of noise centered at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz and four narrow bands of speec...

Determining Factors in Device-Related Infections

assessment of the park- ang damage index for performance levels of rc moment resisting frames

چکیده هدف اصلی از طراحی لرزه ای تامین ایمنی جانی در هنگام وقوع زلزله و تعمیر پذیر بودن سازه خسارت دیده، پس از وقوع زلزله است. تجربه زلزله های اخیر نشان داده است که ساختمان های طراحی شده با آیین نامه های مبتنی بر نیرو از نظر محدود نمودن خسارت وارده بر سازه دقت لازم را ندارند. این امر سبب پیدایش نسل جدید آیین نامه های مبتنی بر عملکرد شده است. در این آیین نامه ها بر اساس تغییرشکل های غیرارتجاعی ...