conclusions the findings of the study indicated a high satisfaction of the elderly with their hearing aids, considering the type of hearing loss. despite all the efforts to improve the audiologic services during verification process, the elderly should be consulted specifically in order to fit their hearing aid as well as their expectations from aid. results the mean satisfaction scores of the ...

background: a lot of investigations exist on the biological effects of radiofrequency and microwave radiation however only a few studies have considered non-carcinogenic exposure to radiations specifically from mobile phones. objectives: to introduce some subjective neurological symptoms in mobile phone users. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from march...

In this paper we present comparative results of our constructive algorithm versus the HSS. Specifically, we tested the HSS algorithm using both the original version based on the two-sided tangent distance, and a new version based on the one-sided tangent distance. Empirical results over the NIST-3 database show that the TD-Neuron is superior to SVD based algorithms since it reaches a better tra...

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Objective: Foot disorders, especially pain and deformities, are common patients’ complaints. Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ) was developed with the aim of assessing general and foot health specifically in chronic foot disorders. The purpose of the current study is cross cultural adaptation of FHSQ to Persian language and evaluating psychometric properties of the translated version. Met...

WoNeF, an improved, extended and evaluated automatic French translation of WordNet Identifying the various possible meanings of each word of the vocabulary is a difficult problem that requires a lot of manual work. It has been tackled by the WordNet lexical semantics database in English, but there are still few resources available for other languages. Automatic translations of WordNet have been...