OBJECTIVE To investigate the predicted threshold shift associated with the use of nonlinear hearing aids fitted to the NAL-NL2 or the DSL m[i/o] prescription for children with the same audiograms. For medium and high input levels, we asked: (1) How does predicted asymptotic threshold shifts (ATS) differ according to the choice of prescription? (2) How does predicted ATS vary with hearing level ...

Local dC/dV spectroscopy performed in a scanning capacitance microscope ~SCM! was used to map, quantitatively and with high spatial resolution (;50 nm), lateral variations in the threshold voltage of an AlxGa12xN/GaN heterostructure field-effect transistor epitaxial layer structure. Scanning capacitance and the associated threshold voltage images show small round features less than 150 nm in di...

The objectives of this study are to determine the prevalence of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) and the characteristics of the vibrotactile perception threshold (VPT) among users of hand-held vibrating tools working in a tropical environment. A cross sectional study was done among 47 shipyard workers using instruments and a questionnaire to determine HAVS related symptoms. The vibration acce...

In normal-hearing listeners, rippled-spectrum discrimination was psychophysically investigated in both silence and with a simultaneous masker background using the following two paradigms: measuring the ripple density resolution with the phase-reversal test and measuring the ripple-shift threshold with the ripple-shift test. The 0.5-oct wide signal was centered on 2 kHz, the signal levels were 5...

introduction: conductive hearing loss due to chronic otitis media (com) can be treated by surgery. com, however, may be associated with functional damage to the inner ear. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) due to com has been found to be significant by some authors, whereas it has been considered negligible by others. the present study aimed to answer the question does com cause snhl ? methods:...

Gate bias-induced stress has been investigated on sexithiophene-based ransistors. It was found that both a negative and a positive threshold voltage shift can be induced. Temperature-dependent measurements show that there are two processes involved in the negative threshold voltage shift, one occurring at T ˜ 220 K and the other at T˜ 300 K. These two transition temperatures were interpreted in...

Objective: To study the effect of age on auditory threshold shift among children in two schools for the deaf. Result: Pure tone audiogram showed 6-8 dB threshold shift in the metropolitan group of 234 children and 4 dB in the non-metropolitan group of 151 children. In metropolitan school one hundred and forty-seven (62.8%) were found to be hearing aid users and 42 (28%) were in non-metropolitan...

A theoretical model to interpret appearances of the threshold voltage shift in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin film transistors (TFT’s) is developed to better understand the instability of a-Si:H TFT’s for the driving transistors in active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. This model assumes that the defect creation is proportional to the carrier density in a-S...

This paper proposes a new algorithm for blocking the operation of Indirect Symmetrical Phase Shift Transformer (ISPST) differential relay when subjected to different operating conditions except internal fault condition. The proposed algorithm is amalgamation of Phase angle shift (PAS) threshold and Optimal Radial Basis Function Neural Network (ORBFNN). PAS between source and load side currents ...

The strong-interaction shift πD 1s and broadening Γ πD 1s in pionic deuterium have been determined in a high statistics study of the πD(3p-1s) X-ray transition using a high-resolution crystal spectrometer. The pionic deuterium shift will provide constraints for the pion-nucleon isospin scattering lengths extracted from measurements of shift and broadening in pionic hydrogen. The hadronic broade...