As behavioral ecologist Mirjam Knörnschild of the University of Ulm in Germany listened to sac-winged bats (Saccopteryx bilineata), she thought she heard complicated vocal imitation.
My husband and I, both hearing, faced complicated decisions from the very start.
We encountered a patient with sensorineural hearing loss complicating scrub typhus, and three patients with scrub typhus who complained of otalgia, which was sudden onset, severe, paroxysmal, intermittent yet persistent pain lasting for several seconds, appeared within 1 week after the onset of fever and rash.
Second, the few cases of children with hearing impairment also complicated the drawing of conclusions; the low prevalence (a small percentage) of hearing loss applied to small samples (usually <500 newborns) led to the identification of only a few hearing-impaired newborns.
Hearing is more complicated to model than talking, because it involves signal processing: converting sound from waves of air into electrical impulses.
Conductive hearing loss is due to the impaired movement of ossicles, and further damage to the cochlea can cause irreparable sensorineural hearing loss, occasionally complicated by tinnitus.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business, complicated business," the billionaire businessman and former Apprentice host told supporters gathered to hear his victory speech at a New York hotel.
The hearing promises to be complicated and threatens to pit several of the government's political appointees against one another.
"I'm even wondering if we'll do an actual sidewalk because I'm hearing it's so complicated to put a star down," he added.
She repeats lines that are aware of their own inherent music but still push to get their ideas heard; the words grow complicated on matters of money, labor, gender, bodies and family, and they want instant parsing.
