(1) They provide reassuring information about voices, suggest coping strategies, organize peer-support groups for young voice hearers, and emphasize hopeful messages, including the fact that a lot of people hear voices and lead happy, fulfilling lives.
(2) The normal hearers were tested in 4-, 8-, and 16-directions, and the hearing-impaired patients were tested in only 8-directions.
(3) Two views of bilingualism are presented--the monolingual or fractional view which holds that the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person, and the bilingual or wholistic view which states that the coexistence of two languages in the bilingual has produced a unique and specific speaker-hearer.
(4) Noise levels ranging from 35 to 110 dB SPL were presented to 8 normal hearers.
(5) This suggests that HFA either send random intonation signals to hearers or else demonstrate systematic misuse of the linguistic system.
(6) Ohala (1974, 1981a) has proposed that sound changes can originate in hearers' misinterpretations of synchronic phonetic patterns.
(7) The present investigation examined psychophysically the frequency-specific and nonlinear attenuation of sound energy provided by middle ear muscle contraction in normal hearers.
(8) They then indicated exactly what they would say in each situation and what their perceptions of the request size, the hearer's power, and the closeness of their relationship with the hearer were.
(9) All passages are of equal intelligibility for the average normal hearer.
(10) Initially, performance-intensity functions were obtained for both normal hearers, and those with high frequency sensorineural hearing loss.
(11) In the present study, speech-recognition performance was measured in four hearing-impaired subjects and twelve normal hearers.
(12) The question addressed in this study is whether normal hearers with a hearing loss simulated through a shaped masking noise demonstrate speech-recognition difficulties similar to those of listeners with actual hearing impairment.
(13) The conservation is segmented into single utterances (units of analysis) within which so called speaker-relevant control signs (tags, questions, speech pauses) as well as listener-relevant control signs (hearer signals) are defined and localized.
(14) Brain-stem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) were recorded both to rarefaction and condensation click stimuli in 92 normal hearers and 78 patients with varying degrees of cochlear hearing loss (N = 340 ears).
(15) Thresholds were measured under earphones and in two sound fields for 6-11 normal hearers at six test frequencies.
(16) Normal Hearers The rate of correct answers decreased with increasing directions of sound.
(17) Difference tone levels were estimated in four normal hearers using a 2AFC adaptive temporal gap-masking paradigm.
(18) The over-hearer was a private citizen – Tom Matzzie, an entrepreneur who previously worked for MoveOn.org and John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
(19) Audio versions of the test have been developed for use with normal hearers (CST version 1), and for hearing-impaired listeners (CST version 2).
(20) For experiment II, normal hearers listened to consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllables filtered to match the mean audiometric configuration of the noise-exposed subjects in experiment I.
Wearer
Definition:
(n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
(n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither did the degree of dysfunction in complete denture wearers vary with the condition of their prostheses.
(2) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(3) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
(4) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.
(5) It renders images on a split screen to simulate a stereoscopic view for the wearer, much like 3D TVs and 3D spectacles in cinemas.
(6) No differences in taste thresholds were found between denture wearers and subjects with natural dentition.
(7) Bacterial contamination of lens care systems is well known as a potential cause of keratitis in contact lens wearers.
(8) A young female contact lens wearer presented with a long history of painful central corneal ulcer.
(9) 380 patients, aged 19-41, 60% of whom were wearers of Gravigard, and 40% wearers of Copper T, were observed for a total of 5000 woman cycles.
(10) 244 denture wearers claimed they were satisfied although only 11 dentures could be rated 'good' and 67% of complete dentures were 'poor'.
(11) The PHAP has been evaluated using groups consisting mainly of elderly hearing aid wearers having mild to moderate hearing impairments.
(12) Controversy exists as to whether patients who are asymptomatic, long term PMMA contact lens wearers demonstrating an acceptable clinical ocular response should be routinely refit into hard gas permeable lenses.
(13) One-half of a population of wearers with similar protection would be expected to experience long-term average workplace protection factors in excess of 44 and one-half below that value.
(14) Studies of extended-wear and daily-wear contact lens patients strongly suggest that extended-wear patients face a greater risk of ulcerative keratitis than other cosmetic contact lens wearers.
(15) The black and Latino communities have been gelling down baby hairs – the shorter, softer hairs on the hairline – for decades, but the styling technique was filed by the fashion world under “ghetto” until its wearers were white.
(16) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
(17) Endometrial biopsies were performed in asymptomatic IUD wearers on specific days of the menstrual cycle, and the histologic features were compared to those expected for the day of the cycle.
(18) Twelve of 16 dissatisified bifocal contact lens wearers (75%) were successfully fit with the Tangent Streak trifocal.
(19) It was hypothesized that nonseat-belt wearers were more likely to be externally oriented than seat-belt wearers but this was not confirmed.
(20) The study has revealed that candida infection and poor denture cleanliness are very common in elderly denture wearers.