In studying speech intelligibility in traffic noise, I was able to reproduce a sound field with considerable reality by reproducing both speech and traffic noises by the speaker method using a CD. As a result, the following conclusions were reached. 1) The influence of noise on speech intelligibility is similar for the single syllable and adult disyllable in normal persons. 2) The influence of ...

While significant declines in cigarette smoking have occurred among U.S. adults during the past 5 decades, the use of emerging tobacco products* has increased in recent years (1-3). To estimate tobacco use among U.S. adults aged ≥18 years, CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analyzed data from the 2013-2014 National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS). During 2013-2014, 21.3% of U.S. adults ...

BACKGROUND Loss of parents in early childhood can have serious long-term psychological consequences. Abandoned by a close figure of attachment, many persons have developed the emotion of anger, even though the separation was caused by death. The traumatic experience of the loss of a parent is particularly hard in war, because most often it does not occur as an individual trauma. Our aim is to r...

Monitoring delayed entry to HIV medical care is needed because it signifies that opportunities to prevent HIV transmission and mitigate disease progression have been missed. A central question for population-level monitoring is whether to consider a person linked to care after receipt of one CD4 or VL test. Using HIV surveillance data, we explored two definitions for estimating the number of HI...

A HANDICAPPED child is a child who cannot play, work or do the things other children of his age can do, or who is hindered in achieving his full physical, mental and social potentiality . . This is the definition of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. President Kennedy, in his short, meteoric term of office, gave a tremendous boost to the parents of these children, and to the...

altering nationality is a right for persons. according to rule 588 of commercial law, legal persons can have the complete right and duties of persons, except rights and duets that only human can have due to his nature such as rights and duties of fatherhood, sonny etc. in persian law, unlike persons, there is not any rule about altering nationality for legal persons especially companies and the...