Owing to technological progress and a growing body of clinical experience, indication criteria for cochlear implants (CI) are being extended to less severe hearing impairments. It is, therefore, worth reconsidering these indication criteria by introducing novel testing procedures. The diagnostic evidence collected will be evaluated. The investigation includes postlingually deafened adults seeki...

background and aim: auditory processing disorder and dyslexia have been reported by many studies as having high comorbidity. the purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of central auditory processing rehabilitation program on speech reception in noise and dichotic listening in dyslexic students. the research was quasi-experimental, including a pretest, posttest and a control g...

INTRODUCTION Even though modern technology progresses so rapidly, annals of otology are replete with so many challenging article, which often compare various types of prosthesis. Since there has not been a prospective randomized clinical trial study which compares the hearing result of total ossicular replacement prosthesis made of Titanium with omega connector and Polycel in the literature, we...

Hearing-impaired listeners often have great difficulty understanding speech in situations with background noise (e.g., meetings, parties). Conventional hearing aids offer insufficient directivity to significantly reduce background noise relative to the desired speech signal. Based on array techniques, microphone prototypes have been developed with strongly directional characteristics to be inco...

Intelligibility in a telecommunication-based conference application can largely be improved, when the speech signals of the different interlocutors are presented spatially, and when the sources are spatially distributed. For the controlled exploitation of the underlying Cocktail Party Effect in speech chat applications, a prediction of the intelligibility related to a given spatial configuratio...

Twenty three normal-hearing candidates for the Submarine Force were examined for Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) by speech audiometry using phonetically-balanced (PB) lists of monosyllables instead of the usual spondee words. Such PB words are felt to be considerably better in assessing the important frequency regions for daily speech communication, namely, 500-2000 cycles per second. The Navy...

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) have been recognized as an alternative to surgery for small to medium sized vestibular schwannoma (VS). This study analysed and compared the outcomes of VS treated with the first Thailand installation of a dedicated Linac-based stereotactic radiation machine using single-fraction radiosurgery (SRS), hypofraction st...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of actual rotational setup errors on dose distributions in intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) with different alternatives for treatment position selection. A total of 38 SRT fractions from 18patients were retrospectively evaluated with rotational setup errors obtained from actual treatments. The planning computed tomography (CT) images ...

A random access protocol for wireless networks was recently proposed in [16], that achieves high throughput by exploiting cooperative diversity of network nodes. According to that scheme, when a collision occurs, the network nodes bounce off the signal that they heard during the collision slot. The base station, by processing the collided packets and the relay transmissions can recover the coll...