auditory training for cochlear implant patients

... AN EXPERIMENTAL BEAMFORMER A portable beamforming device implementing the algorithm in Figure was built in order to be able to perform experiments in real-time, with cochlear implant users and ... adaptive beamformer BEAMTM in the nucleus FreedomTM cochlear implant system,” Ear and Hearing, vol 28, no 1, pp 62–72, 2007 M Kompis and N Dillier, “Performance of an adaptive beamforming noise ... Hoesel and G M Clark, “Evaluation of a portable two-microphone adaptive beamforming speech processor with cochlear implant patients, ” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 97, no 4, pp...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... processors for cochlear implant systems of several manufacturers are still using single omnidirectional microphones [17, 18] Compared to the more complex beamforming algorithm of one cochlear implant ... noise with cochlear implant users Omnidirectional mic Fixed directional mic S1 S2 S3 S4 10 SRT (dB) S5 S6 Mean Figure 9: Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) of six cochlear implant users for noise ... thresholds (SRTs) of six cochlear implant users for target and noise signals arriving from the front Beamformer Omnidirectional mic Fixed directional mic S1 S2 S3 S4 Beamformer S5 S6 Mean Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... program and tasks performed Patients commented that they felt comfortable during the home sessions and that they could foresee a need for such training in the future This training program demonstrated ... postural training for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients Prosthet Orthot Int 2001, 25:60-70 18 Wu G: Real-time feedback of body center of gravity for postural training of elderly patients ... this training method is feasible for patients with PD As such, the findings are encouraging Future studies should include a larger sample of patients and compare them to an active control group Training...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... not been performed for cognitive remediation in a rehabilitation setting All patients received training parallel to a three-week inpatient work therapy, which was similar for all patients We ... motivation Patients who received ten sessions of problem-solving training showed greater improvement on problem-solving skills required for independent living In contrast, patients receiving memory training ... the training session Planning and problem-solving training The training intervention with Plan-a-Day is based on a training concept originally developed by Kohler et al [50] It focuses on training...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... clinical trials The ones we know of (for instance Brown et al [52]) have been developed for patients coming into care after a suicide attempt Our training aims to help patients early on in the suicidal ... problems It also provides means to discuss the training and exchange information The website hosts a message board Further information about the training can be found in the summary of the workbook ... Netherlands, but they all are developed for specialized settings and specific patient groups A reason for us to develop an intervention for a broad group of patients with suicidal thoughts This...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... empathy scales for nurses and satisfaction surveys for patients before and after the program In addition, sociodemographic data forms were filled out by patients and the nurses who participated in the ... elements for delivery of communication skills training; the content and process was specifically designed for this study and was based on best available evidence The curriculum of the training ... The same training program was modified and used for emergency nurses (1) There were some reasons of the modification of the previous training program First of all, the second part of the training...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... assigned beforehand, about things they did not fully understand in the other groups video segments and which they find interesting What are the advantages of this technique? First, materials for imprompu ... than picking out topics from text materials, etc Not only that, this activity combines training students for public speaking and testing comprehension of materials presented through visuals Furthermore, ... engaged in impromptu speaking, the rest of the class are watching their assigned video segment for the second time The length of each video segment should be controlled so that when the first...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... an Action Plan for remedial action  If no system is in place should advise on the design and come up with timetable for implementation that proposed system IV- When we should perform Financial ... Reports  Linkage of financial information with Output indicators or contract status for key activities  Outcome indicators generally not reported in FMRs  Narrative information may be complement, ... effectiveness  First FMR produced after first full period  NO standardized formats for FMRs Borrowers to agree with the Bank on format and content that is consistent with the FMR Guidelines 23 VII-...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 11:15

... processor FORCE I/O or FORCE LED and remove forces Use the force function to force output off If this forces the output off, then there is a logic/ programming problem If this does not force the ... does force on then check again for logic/programming problem Check processor FORCE I/O or FORCE LED and remove forces Use the force function to force output on If this forces the output on, then ... does User programmed forces not operate per forces are not programmed enabled Enable appropriate forces and test system conditions forces again Once forces are enabled, the FORCE LED goes on steady...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 08:32

... DCI specification is the requirement for the JPEG2000 image format This is a new format for storing the digital images which has been optimised specifically for digital cinema This requires new ... in a horseshoe formation & includes a smaller pull-down screen for powerpoint presentations The course lasts for days - each attendee is given a copy of the very comprehensive training manual ... the diverse formats available for handling these elements in digital form However, the DCDM is strictly defined, and this definition acts to distil the DSM down to a single delivery for the DCDM...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... Members Please contact the BKSTS for subscription payment details or further information page  Training for Digital Projection - June 2006 welcome TDP Training for Digital Projection Welcome! ... their carefully thought out training programme • Projectionist Training Projectionists must attend a two-day training course at AADC premises - this training is free for up to two projectionists ... check for audio failure You may also attend our training courses if you are not part of the DSN If you are interested, please contact us for details www.artsalliancemedia.com/ Training for Digital...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, California, June Tom O’Hara and Janyce Wiebe ... over the model for the preposition against For both models, we set the concentration parameter αtrans to 0.001, and αemit to 0.1 This encourages sparsity in the model and allows for a more nuanced ... increases the gain considerably, illustrating how important these techniques are for unsupervised training We note that EM performs better with the less complex HMM CRP is somewhat surprisingly roughly...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20

... as to the utility of selftraining for adaptation The first is the parsing results are quite poor by modern standards.1 Steedman et al (2003) generally found that selftraining does not work, but ... we show the f -score for four versions of the parser as a function of number of self -training sentences The dashed line on the bottom is the raw C/J parser with no self -training At 80.4, it is ... sentences at which point performance is nearly flat However, as 270,000 sentences is fractionally better than 150,000 sentences that is the number of self -training sentences we used for our results on...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... the case for PP attachment Due to the good performance of Collins’ parser for even small training sets, the combination is only superior for the two smallest training sets (significant for the ... system performs better than either component by itself However, for PP attachment this only holds for small training set sizes For large training sets, we could only show an improvement for RC attachment ... (mechanism) and for low attachment (System) The algorithm therefore selects high attachment The value for low attachment is the default value for the empty context This value reflects the bias for low...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... validation performance end end average_performance and keep average_performance end B = best average_performance bestFeatures B ∪ bestFeatures end Figure Implemented algorithm for forward wrapper ... features) and 140 for the test set (used to measure the performance) The training set is randomly divided into two sets in each iteration of the algorithm: One for training and the other for development ... and best features for PPV using Naïve Bayes (used for Feature Selection) and AdaBoost-j48 Decision Trees (used for Co -training) The selected features that gave the best PPV for Emotional Class...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... advice for all four approaches, but you will detect an admitted bias for one form of training over the others LSD Training is aimed at building an athlete who can deliver a steady performance ... Exercises for the abdominal girdle 51 Power group Exercises for the legs 69 Pushing group Exercises for the upper body 79 Pulling group Exercises for the upper body 91 10 Fifth limb Exercises for the ... Threshold Training is the middle ground between allout interval training and LSD.We perform above a comfortable pace, but not redline the system.Think middle-distance runners Peaking Threshold Training...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... that the steepest increase in F1 is achieved by 1/10th of CoNLL training data Therefore, for training a base classifier as highperformance as possible, while simulating the labeled data scarcity ... 5.1 In addition to performance, efficiency of the classifier (C) is important for self -training, which is computationally expensive Our classifier is a compromise between performance and efficiency ... training set We use one unlabeled training set (U) for indomain and another for out-of-domain experiments The former is the remaining portion of CoNLL training data and contains 35,832 sentences (698,567...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... co -training is useful for enlarging the training data and that the performance gain by bilingual co -training cannot be achieved by simply translating the existing training data the best performance ... Effect of Training Data Size We performed two tests to investigate the effect of the training data size on bilingual co -training The first test posed the following question: “If we build 2n training ... that bilingual co -training enables us to build classifiers for two languages in tandem, outperforming classifiers trained individually for each language while requiring no more training data in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... problem in HMM especially when training data size is small 3.2 Bilingual Information Metric Trying to find phrase translations for any possible ngram is not a good idea for two reasons First, due ... well to a foreign phrase, the posterior distribution of the English phrase generating all foreign phrases on the other side is significantly biased For instance, the posterior of one foreign phrase ... English phrases is set to and 25 respectively for all conditions2 We perform online style phrase training, i.e., phrase extraction is not particular for any evaluation set Two different word alignment...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20