This article describes the development of a test for measuring the intelligibility of speech in noise for the Spanish language, similar to the test developed by Kalikow, Stevens, and Elliot (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 5, 1337-1360, 1977) for the English language. The test consists of six forms, each comprising 25 high-predictability (HP) sentences and 25 low-predictability (L...

Oncology has come a long way in addressing patients' quality of life, together with developing surgical, radio-oncological and medical anticancer therapies. However, the multiple and varying needs of patients are still not being met adequately as part of routine cancer care. Supportive and palliative care interventions should be integrated, dynamic, personalised and based on best evidence. They...

Abstract Inference on common parameters in panel data models with individual-specific fixed effects is a classic example of Neyman and Scott’s (Econometrica 36:1–32, 1948) incidental parameter problem (IPP). One solution to this IPP functional differencing (Bonhomme Econometrica 80(4):1337–1385, 2012), which works when the number time periods T (and may be small), but not applicable all interes...

A qualified education depends on both the realization of objectives expected from it and level satisfaction those who benefit this service. Determination student has an important place in determining quality service offered terms higher institutions. In context, aim study is to develop a measurement tool that can be used measure levels university students. For purpose, “University Students Sati...