Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of hearing instruments set to Desired Sensation Level version 5 (DSL v5) hearing instrument prescription algorithm targets and equipped with directional microphones and digital noise reduction (DNR) on children’s sentence recognition in noise performance and loudness perception in a classroom environment. Method: Ten children (ages...

In the title compound, C(19)H(13)N(5)·C(4)H(8)O(2)·2H(2)O, the mol-ecular skeleton of the 2,6-bis-(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine (bbip) mol-ecule is essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.023 Å). An extensive three-dimensional network of inter-molecular N-H⋯O, O-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds consolidates the crystal packing, which also exhibits π-π inter-actions between the five- and six-membered...

(a) y′ = 1 + xy (b) y′ = −2xy (c) y′ = 1− 2xy Answer: If (b) were correct, then, when x = 0, we would have that y′ = 0. However, the slope of the tangent line is clearly positive when x = 0 in the picture, so (b) cannot be correct. If (a) were correct, then y′ would be positive for all positive values of x. However, the slope of the tangent line is clearly negative for most positive x, so (a) c...