This paper reports the results of a series of investigations of comfortable loudness levels with particular reference to their application to hearing aid gain prescriptions. Experiment 1 studied the effects of several stimulus waveforms, bandwidths, and durations on comfortable loudness levels for normal and hearing impaired listeners. Speech band comfort levels were found to be significantly h...

There are many indexes (measures or metrics) in Social Network Analysis (SNA), like density, cohesion, etc. In this paper, we define a new SNA index called “comfortability ”. One among the lack of many factors, which affect the effectiveness of a group, is “comfortability ”. So, comfortability is one of the important attributes (characteristics) for a successful team work. It is important to fi...

The perceived differences between comfortable and uncomfortable shoes and the fit preferences in the different regions of ladies’ shoes were explored. Twenty Hong Kong Chinese females participated in the study. Each participant wore and rated the different aspects of their own comfortable and uncomfortable shoes. The Wilcoxon signed rank tests showed significant differences in ten perceived cha...

Under the premise of ensuring their own food, clothing, housing and transportation, We aim for sustainable development to make building nature coordinate with each other create a healthier more comfortable living space. This article analyzes water resources in construction process, discusses why they are wasted how reduce waste In addition, water-saving combination method will be proposed optim...

PURPOSE To identify ethical dilemmas commonly encountered during pediatrics training as a step toward improving medical ethics curricula for residents. METHOD The authors identified seven recurring topics by reviewing the required case reports on ethical dilemmas experienced by students in the third-year pediatrics clerkship from June 1992 to June 1994 at the State University of New York at B...