background and aim: as the most perceived and articulated errors of hearing aid users occur in high frequency speech phonemes, this study aimed to find a way to amplify and reconstruct the errors. thus, the study first prepared a recorded form of two persian fricative consonants as stimulus; then, the rate of the prescribed gain of the two methods of national acoustic laboratories-nonlinear 2 (...

The gain and the speech-recognition performance obtained for behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids selected by different prescriptive methods was compared. The three prescriptive methods examined were the NAL-revised method, the Memphis State or COX method, and the POGO-II procedure. Twelve subjects had hearing aids and earmolds selected to match the prescription made by each method. Once selected,...

This paper describes Levels of conceptual interoperability model as the method and model towards enhancing interoperability among mobile apps. The LCIM is used in both descriptive and prescriptive form. In descriptive form LCIM is used to reduce the discrepancies in rating mobile apps based on content by suggesting a rating system that is completely based on interoperability. In the prescriptiv...

Since its inception, Audiology has been concerned with hearing aid selection and the interaction of the hearing impaired person and amplification . The classic work of Watson and Knudsen (1) and Lybarger (2) suggests a long clinical interest in prescribing parameters for hearing aids according to audiometric measurements . In the early days, prescriptive procedures were neglected due to technol...

In this paper, we present property-driven design, a novel top-down design method for robot swarms based on prescriptive modeling and model checking. Traditionally, robot swarms have been developed using a codeand-fix approach: in a bottom-up iterative process, the developer tests and improves the individual behaviors of the robots until the desired collective behavior is obtained. The code-and-...