The rope-less elevator driven by Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor (PMLSM) is a new technology for high-rise buildings. In the practical operation, PMLSM inevitably encounters various kinds of turbulences which directly affect the rope-less elevator’s operation. The braking system is important for rope-less elevator safe and steady operation. Usually, the ordinary inspections are not ab...

background and aim: there is a controversy about cochlear implant usefulness for users since they do not develop speech and language with equal quality. many researchers by controlling demographic and medical variables in this population suggested the contribution of neuro­cognitive factors such as working memory to this variation. the aim of this study was to com­pare working memory capacity b...

conclusions our results showed that only 17% of the measured points in the oil drilling rig floor were in safe area; 39% were in caution area and 44% were in danger area. in the camp facilities area, 51% of the points were in safe area, 38% were in caution area and 11% in danger area. the main sources of noise exposure in the rig floor area were power generators. materials and methods this was ...

Perceptual abnormalities such as hyperacusis and tinnitus often occur after acoustic overexposure. Although such exposure can also result in permanent threshold elevation, some individuals with noise-induced hyperacusis or tinnitus show clinically normal thresholds. Recent work in animals has shown that a "neuropathic" noise exposure can cause immediate, permanent degeneration of the cochlear n...

The Zwicker tone is an auditory aftereffect. For instance, after switching off a broadband noise with a spectral gap, one perceives it as a lingering pure tone with the pitch in the gap. It is a unique illusion in that it cannot be explained by known properties of the auditory periphery alone. Here we introduce a neuronal model explaining the Zwicker tone. We show that a neuronal noise-reductio...

background: ototoxic chemicals can impair the sense of hearing and balance. in the past decades, the ototoxicity of solvents and their interaction with noise have become evident. this study has been carried out in the shoe manufacturing factory in tehran (iran) with the aim of evaluating the combined effects of noise and toluene on the workers' hearing. materials and methods: this cross-se...

abstract   introduction: conductive hearing loss attenuates and delays sound transmission in the middle ear. it can make variety of central auditory processing disorders; that persists even after resolve of peripheral auditory system problems. one of the aspects of central auditory processing is the temporal processing, which is important for understanding speech, including temporal resolution,...

  Background : Noise pollution and workers' noise exposure are common in industrial factories in Iran. In order to reduce this noise pollution, evaluation and investigation of noise emission are both necessary. In this study, different noise mapping methodsare used for determining the distribution of noise.   Materials and Methods : In the present study, for preparing a noise map i...