The present study investigated the effects of gain compensation and venting on front-to-back ratios (FBRs), speech understanding in noise, and acceptance of noise in 19 listeners with hearing impairment utilizing directional hearing instruments. The participants were separated into two groups based on degree of low-frequency hearing sensitivity. Subjects were fitted binaurally with Starkey Axen...

UK transport policy has shifted dramatically in recent years. The new policy direction seeks to promote walking as an alternative to the car for short trips. Midblock signalled pedestrian crossings are a common method of resolving the conflict between pedestrians and vehicles. This paper considers alternative operating strategies for midblock signalled pedestrian crossings that are more respons...

Most of the research on text categorization has focused on mapping text documents to a set of categories among which structural relationships hold, i.e., on hierarchical text categorization. For solutions of a hierarchical problem that make use of an ensemble of classifiers, the behavior of each classifier typically depends on an acceptance threshold, which turns a degree of membership into a d...

Due to major advances in the information technology, telemedicine applications are ready for a widespread use. Nonetheless, to allow their diffusion in National Health Care Systems (NHCSs) specific methodologies of health technology assessment (HTA) should be used to assess the standardization, the overall quality, the interoperability, the addressing to legal, economic and cost benefit aspects...

an equitable domination has interesting application in the contextof social networks. in a network, nodes with nearly equal capacitymay interact with each other in a better way. in the societypersons with nearly equal status, tend to be friendly. in thispaper, we introduce new variant of equitable domination of agraph. basic properties and some interesting results have beenobtained.

introduction: acceptance test is a necessary procedure after spect system installation. the goal of this test is to reveal system's present condition, to compare it with manufacturer's specifications and also as a base for later tests. methods: this study investigated four spect systems in tehran. all of the quality control tests are performed on the basis of nema and iaea recommendations and b...

to complete “the use theory of meaning”, paul horwich put forward a new thesis upon which some usages of a word have explanatory role and justify the overall use-regularities of that word. these specific usages have a basic acceptance property which makes them believable in user’s belief system and, like a semantic axiom, make other usages justified. but, there are still some usages that cannot...

Some narcissistically impaired patients present a particularly difficult therapeutic challenge. They often cannot tolerate interpretations because they view interpretations as humiliating evidence that they are shamefully defective. For these patients, “treatment by attitude” and without significant interpretation may be the only way they can feel safe enough to allow the therapeutic process to...

Technology acceptance is a widely acknowledged key player in explaining technology adoption. However, there is a notable knowledge gap concerning the impact of cultural factors on technology acceptance, especially in the medical sector. It is evident though that countries differ greatly regarding their technical proneness, development and usage habits what should have considerable impact on acc...