The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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The sweep frequency impedance (SFI) meter is an apparatus that delivers a frequency-sweeping sound into the ear canal and evaluates dynamic characteristics of the middle ear based on changes in sound pressure in the ear canal. We have renewed the SFI...
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic skin disease, causing itching and recurrent eczematous lesions. In Danish national register data, adults with atopic dermatitis can only be identified if they have a hospital-diagnosed atopic dermatitis. The purpose of ...
BACKGROUND: Shame and stigma often prevent individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) from seeking and attending costly and time-intensive psychotherapies, highlighting the importance of brief, low-cost, and scalable treatments. Creating prescrip...
Approximately one-fifth of Canadians report high levels of psychological stress. This is alarming, as chronic stress is associated with non-communicable diseases and premature mortality. In order to create effective interventions and public policy fo...
Traditional models of reading lack a realistic simulation of the early visual processing stages, taking input in the form of letter banks and predefined line segments, making them unsuitable for modeling early brain responses. We used variations of t...
Health literacy is essential for promoting well-being and the ability to make informed decisions. We investigated the level of health literacy in Brazil and identified the predictive factors that influence it. Our data contribute to the international...
BACKGROUND: The increasing prevalence of mental health issues among adolescents and young adults, coupled with barriers to accessing traditional therapy, has led to growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven conversational agents (CAs) a...
Meningococcal meningitis poses a significant public health burden in the meningitis belt region of sub-Saharan Africa. The introduction of the meningococcal PsA-TT vaccine (MenAfriVac®) has successfully eliminated Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (...
The likelihood of pedestrians encountering autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in smart cities is steadily increasing. While previous studies have explored human-to-human collision avoidance, the behavior of humans avoiding AMRs in direct, head-on scenar...