Power calculations are based on expected progress in use of communication strategies (the Communication Strategies Scale of the Hearing Handicap and Disability Inventory), which has been the primary outcome of previous studies in persons with hearing loss [ 41].
The hearing research community has proposed that this scale be applied to facilitate comparison of hearing aid outcomes across diverse research studies.
Improvements were shown for hearing handicap, measured by the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly and the Communication Scale for Older Adults (Sweetow & Henderson Sabes 2010), but not by the Speech Spatial and Qualities of Hearing questionnaire (Ingvalson et al. 2013) or a health status questionnaire, the Glasgow Benefit Inventory (Stacey et al. 2010).
6 The test has been used in large-scale trials of approximately 15 000 people 7 and is continually recommended clinically as a simple test of hearing ability.
Thus, hearing technologies should provide a remarkable compensation of hearing deficits for people with hearing loss.
Therefore, our results reflect the anisotropic mechanical properties of the TM in the spatial scale relevant to hearing.
Patients with revision surgery evaluated the items of the scale "Hearing Function" at all 3 time points of measurement worse compared with patients with primary surgery (TM1: p = 0.03; TM2: p = 0.006; TM3: p = 0.006).
This phenomenon was triggered by the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda when mass killings and displacement created a kind of disaster for children on a scale not heard of since the Holocaust.
The structural topology optimization of a vibro-acoustic finite element model is shown for an industrial full scale model hearing instrument.
Today's distributed computer systems have reached scales never heard of before, be it in terms of the number of machines they host, the number of cores these machines contain, the amount of data they store and process, or the number of users they serve.
At the other end of the credibility scale, we hear that Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer walked out on a TV interview with Piers Morgan.
