background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

Tarello (1980) identified fifteen kinds of arguments used for statutory interpretation, and later, MacCormick and Summers (1991) recognized eleven types of interpretive arguments. Building on this work, the aim of this paper, part of a wider research project, is to formulate argumentation schemes for statutory interpretation. To indicate the direction of this work, an example of one of the sche...

The need for appropriate interpretative and evaluative frameworks for understanding groupware and related technologies is discussed. Structuration is employed to examine some aspects of an implementation of groupware within one organization and various interpretative outcomes

introduction: hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. this research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   materials and methods: this descriptive-analytic cross-s...

background and aim: social networking sites (snss), known in terms of cyberspace, are a very popular and accepted aspect of technology. internet is more useful for hearing-impaired children and adolescents than the other users because of the type of communication and its possibility of hiding their disabilities. this study aimed to determine the relationship between using cyberspace and the mot...

regardless of severity, earlier intervention to correct hearing loss in children improves speech development and conversational abilities. a cross-sectional study was performed on 230 neonates who were at risk of hearing loss in tehran university of medical sciences hospitals between september 2000 and february 2002. hearing was examined before the 3rd month by auditory brainstem responses (abr...

background and objective : obstructive sleep apnea (osa) through hypoxia and reoxygenation periods leads to oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, and activation of inflammatory cycles, which eventually may cause disorder in vasa nervorum, and peripheral neuropathy in hearing pathway. in this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of severe sleep apnea on hearing function. materials and met...

Background: Congenital hearing loss delays many aspects of a child's development, including speech and socio-cognitive development. The aim of this study was determine the results of infant hearing screening with transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) in Moradi Hospital, Rafsanjan, Iran: 2014. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study from 6017 infants born in Nik...

Introduction: Hearing impairment and hearing loss are kinds of latent handicap in children. Any abnormality in hearing can affect different aspects of life. Otoacoustic emissions have been accepted as an appropriate method for screening of hearing loss in neonates. In this study we assessed the hearing status of infants admitted in ICU wards in Yazd.Materials and methods: This was a cross-secti...