PURPOSE To investigate the existence of correlations between the performance of children in auditory temporal tests (Frequency Pattern and Gaps in Noise--GIN) and IQ, attention, memory and age measurements. METHOD Fifteen typically developing individuals between the ages of 7 to 12 years and normal hearing participated in the study. Auditory temporal processing tests (GIN and Frequency Patter...

Purpose: To analyze the effects of an auditory rehabilitation program for the temporal ordering ability, of duration and pitch patterns of sounds, in elderly hearing aids users. Methods: Participants were 17 elderly people, with ages between 60 and 84 years, divided into Control Group (CG), which only used hearing aids, and Study Group (SG), which were submitted to an auditory rehabilitation pr...

The utilization of the chemical laboratory resources at the Hospital Sains Malaysia was evaluated. More than 100,000 test requests received and performed over a 12-month period, were analyzed retrospectively. The analysis conducted included the abnormal results obtained, the degree of duplication of tests, and the extent of test-panel ordering. It was found that a relatively moderate degree of ...

In most termination tools two ingredients, namely recursive path orderings (RPO) and polynomial interpretation orderings (POLO), are used in a consecutive disjoint way to solve the final constraints generated from the termination problem. In this paper we present a simple ordering that combines both RPO and POLO and defines a family of orderings that includes both, and extend them with the poss...

This article presents the essential features of a protocol engineering environment, the Eucalyptus toolbox, which has been developed or improved in the framework of two successive European-Canadian projects Eucalyptus-1 and Eucalyptus-2. This toolbox is based on the formal description technique Lotos standardized by Iso. It offers a wide range of functionalities, including simulation, compilati...

Binary and grayscale mathematical morphology have many applications in different area. On the other hand, colour morphology is not widespread. The reason is the lack of a unique ordering of colour that makes the extension of grayscale morphology to colour images not straightforward. We will introduce a new majority sorting scheme that can be applied on binary, grayscale and colour images. It is...