OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of prescription on predicted speech intelligibility and loudness for children. DESIGN A between-group comparison of speech intelligibility index (SII) and loudness, based on hearing aids fitted according to NAL-NL1, DSL v4.1, or DSL m[i/o] prescriptions. A within-group comparison of gains prescribed by DSL m[i/o] and NAL-NL2 for children in terms of SII and lou...

This article investigated the relationship between age at onset of canonical babbling and audibility of amplified speech in children with hearing impairment. Thirteen children with severe-profound hearing impairment and two children with normal hearing participated in a longitudinal investigation of vocalization development. A nonconcurrent multiple baseline design was used to analyze vocalizat...

The primary goal of the acoustical design of conventional open-plan offices (cubicle style) is to achieve an acceptable level of acoustical or speech privacy. That is, we would like to make it more difficult for occupants to hear and understand speech sounds from adjacent workstations. We can therefore measure speech privacy by measuring the intelligibility of speech sounds from adjacent workst...

Aims: We aimed to examine the prognostic value of inflammatory markers such as neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet‐to‐lymphocyte (PLR), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), and anemia on oncological outcomes in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas (LSCC) treated radiotherapy.
 Methods: 213 LSCC analyzed retrospectively. Inflammatory were established by examining...

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) in diagnosis acute appendicitis (AA) children 
 Material and Method: This done retrospectively, two groups were formed as AA control group. group divided into subgroups nonperforated perforated appendicitis. compared for age, sex, WBC, neutrophil, lymphocyte platelet count, neutrophil-to-lym...

Aim: To evaluate the role of biomarkers from blood samples COVID-19 patients admitted in Index Medical College Hospital & R.C.
 Material Methods: Hematological parameters such as Neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR), Platelet (PLR) Systemic Inflammatory (SII) were studied RT-PCR positive to utility these for early diagnosis COVID-19.
 Results: The study showed that there was statisti...

When using a mobile phone in acoustical background noise, the near-end listener perceives not only the (clean) far-end speech but also the ambient noise and thus experiences an increased listening effort and a possibly reduced speech intelligibility. Near-end listening enhancement processes the received far-end speech signal depending on the near-end background noise to improve intelligibility....

Introduction: The Systemic Immune-inflammation Index (SII) is a simple, non-invasive, and low-cost parameter that has been studied to predict ulcerative colitis (UC). However, the result remains inconclusive. Therefore, this study aimed confirm utilization of SII in UC. Methods: A systematic search was conducted. inclusion criteria were articles investigated relationship between UC reported spe...

Tubular channel angular pressing (TCAP) is a recently invented novel severe plastic deformation technique for producing UFG tubes. Plastic deformation analysis using the finite element method (FEM) was carried out to investigate the effects of trapezoidal channel geometry on strain inhomogeneity index (SII), strain level and required load compared to previously used channel geometries. The resu...