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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
Int J Audiol. 2017 Mar 10;:1-8
Authors: Kaplan-Neeman R, Muchnik C, Amir N
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data.
DESIGN: Two stages: self-report listening habits questionnaire, and real-time monitoring of listening habits through a smartphone application.
STUDY SAMPLE: Overall 117 participants aged 18-34 years (mean 25.5 years) completed the questionnaire, and of them, 40 participants (mean age: 25.2 years) were monitored for listening habits during two weeks.
RESULTS: Questionnaire main findings indicated that most of the participants reported listening for 4-7 days a week, for at least 30 min at high listening levels with volume control settings at 75-100%. Monitored data showed that actual listening days per week were 1.5-6.5 d, with mean continuous time of 1.56 h, and mean volume control setting of 7.39 (on a scale of 1-15). Eight participants (22%) were found to exceed the 100% noise dose at least once during the monitoring period. One participant (2.7%) exceeded the weekly 100% daily noise dose. Correlations between actual measurements and self-report data were low to moderate.
CONCLUSIONS: Results confirmed the feasibility of monitoring listening habits by a smartphone application, and underscore the need for such a tool to enable safe listening behaviour.
PMID: 28281836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
Int J Audiol. 2017 Mar 10;:1-8
Authors: Kaplan-Neeman R, Muchnik C, Amir N
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data.
DESIGN: Two stages: self-report listening habits questionnaire, and real-time monitoring of listening habits through a smartphone application.
STUDY SAMPLE: Overall 117 participants aged 18-34 years (mean 25.5 years) completed the questionnaire, and of them, 40 participants (mean age: 25.2 years) were monitored for listening habits during two weeks.
RESULTS: Questionnaire main findings indicated that most of the participants reported listening for 4-7 days a week, for at least 30 min at high listening levels with volume control settings at 75-100%. Monitored data showed that actual listening days per week were 1.5-6.5 d, with mean continuous time of 1.56 h, and mean volume control setting of 7.39 (on a scale of 1-15). Eight participants (22%) were found to exceed the 100% noise dose at least once during the monitoring period. One participant (2.7%) exceeded the weekly 100% daily noise dose. Correlations between actual measurements and self-report data were low to moderate.
CONCLUSIONS: Results confirmed the feasibility of monitoring listening habits by a smartphone application, and underscore the need for such a tool to enable safe listening behaviour.
PMID: 28281836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
Int J Audiol. 2017 Mar 10;:1-8
Authors: Kaplan-Neeman R, Muchnik C, Amir N
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data.
DESIGN: Two stages: self-report listening habits questionnaire, and real-time monitoring of listening habits through a smartphone application.
STUDY SAMPLE: Overall 117 participants aged 18-34 years (mean 25.5 years) completed the questionnaire, and of them, 40 participants (mean age: 25.2 years) were monitored for listening habits during two weeks.
RESULTS: Questionnaire main findings indicated that most of the participants reported listening for 4-7 days a week, for at least 30 min at high listening levels with volume control settings at 75-100%. Monitored data showed that actual listening days per week were 1.5-6.5 d, with mean continuous time of 1.56 h, and mean volume control setting of 7.39 (on a scale of 1-15). Eight participants (22%) were found to exceed the 100% noise dose at least once during the monitoring period. One participant (2.7%) exceeded the weekly 100% daily noise dose. Correlations between actual measurements and self-report data were low to moderate.
CONCLUSIONS: Results confirmed the feasibility of monitoring listening habits by a smartphone application, and underscore the need for such a tool to enable safe listening behaviour.
PMID: 28281836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
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Listening to music with personal listening devices: monitoring the noise dose using a smartphone application.
Int J Audiol. 2017 Mar 10;:1-8
Authors: Kaplan-Neeman R, Muchnik C, Amir N
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data.
DESIGN: Two stages: self-report listening habits questionnaire, and real-time monitoring of listening habits through a smartphone application.
STUDY SAMPLE: Overall 117 participants aged 18-34 years (mean 25.5 years) completed the questionnaire, and of them, 40 participants (mean age: 25.2 years) were monitored for listening habits during two weeks.
RESULTS: Questionnaire main findings indicated that most of the participants reported listening for 4-7 days a week, for at least 30 min at high listening levels with volume control settings at 75-100%. Monitored data showed that actual listening days per week were 1.5-6.5 d, with mean continuous time of 1.56 h, and mean volume control setting of 7.39 (on a scale of 1-15). Eight participants (22%) were found to exceed the 100% noise dose at least once during the monitoring period. One participant (2.7%) exceeded the weekly 100% daily noise dose. Correlations between actual measurements and self-report data were low to moderate.
CONCLUSIONS: Results confirmed the feasibility of monitoring listening habits by a smartphone application, and underscore the need for such a tool to enable safe listening behaviour.
PMID: 28281836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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A treatable cause of myelopathy and vision loss mimicking neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: late-onset biotinidase deficiency.
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A treatable cause of myelopathy and vision loss mimicking neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: late-onset biotinidase deficiency.
Metab Brain Dis. 2017 Mar 09;:
Authors: Yilmaz S, Serin M, Canda E, Eraslan C, Tekin H, Ucar SK, Gokben S, Tekgul H, Serdaroglu G
Abstract
Biotinidase deficiency is characterized by severe neurological manifestations as hypotonia, lethargy, ataxia, hearing loss, seizures and developmental retardation in its classical form. Late-onset biotinidase deficiency presents distinctly from the classical form such as limb weakness and vision problems. A 14-year-old boy presented with progressive vision loss and upper limb weakness. The patient was initiated steroid therapy with a preliminary diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder due to the craniospinal imaging findings demonstrating optic nerve, brainstem and longitudinally extensive spinal cord involvement. Although the patient exhibited partial clinical improvement after pulse steroid therapy, craniocervical imaging performed one month after the initiation of steroid therapy did not show any regression. The CSF IgG index was <0.8 (normal: <0.8), oligoclonal band and aquaporin-4 antibodies were negative. Metabolic investigations revealed a low biotinidase enzyme activity 8% (0.58 nmoL/min/mL; normal range: 4.4 to 12). Genetic testing showed c.98-104delinsTCC and p.V457 M mutations in biotinidase (BTD) gene. At the third month of biotin replacement therapy, control craniospinal MRI demonstrated a complete regression of the lesions. The muscle strength of the case returned to normal. His visual acuity was 7/10 in the left eye and 9/10 in the right. The late-onset form of the biotinidase deficiency should be kept in mind in all patients with myelopathy with or without vision loss, particularly in those with inadequate response to steroid therapy. The family screening is important to identify asymptomatic individuals and timely treatment.
PMID: 28281033 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Discourses of prejudice in the professions: the case of sign languages.
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Discourses of prejudice in the professions: the case of sign languages.
J Med Ethics. 2017 Mar 09;:
Authors: Humphries T, Kushalnagar P, Mathur G, Napoli DJ, Padden C, Rathmann C, Smith S
Abstract
There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all. Nevertheless, many professionals advise the parents of deaf children that their children should not learn a sign language during their early years, despite strong evidence across many research disciplines that sign languages are natural human languages. Their recommendations are based on a combination of misperceptions about (1) the difficulty of learning a sign language, (2) the effects of bilingualism, and particularly bimodalism, (3) the bona fide status of languages that lack a written form, (4) the effects of a sign language on acquiring literacy, (5) the ability of technologies to address the needs of deaf children and (6) the effects that use of a sign language will have on family cohesion. We expose these misperceptions as based in prejudice and urge institutions involved in educating professionals concerned with the healthcare, raising and educating of deaf children to include appropriate information about first language acquisition and the importance of a sign language for deaf children. We further urge such professionals to advise the parents of deaf children properly, which means to strongly advise the introduction of a sign language as soon as hearing loss is detected.
PMID: 28280057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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