Challenges for Children with Cochlear Implants in Everyday Listening Scenarios: The Competitive Effect of Noise and Face Masks on Speech Intelligibility

Speech intelligibility (SI) tests under realistic acoustic scenarios are complex tasks to perform.Optimal acoustics, in terms of reverberation and noise, are thus needed.This is particularly true in the presence of young hard-of-hearing (HoH) children equipped with cochlear implants who need speech to be highly intelligible to learn.During the COVI

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Safety evaluation of the food enzyme triacylglycerol lipase from the pregastric tissues of calves, young goats and lambs

Abstract The food enzyme containing triacylglycerol lipase (triacylglycerol acylhydrolase; EC 3.1.1.3) is prepared from the pregastric tissues of calves, young goats and lambs by Caglificio Clerici SpA.The food enzyme is intended to be used in the GIFT CARD production of cheese.As no concerns arose from the animal source of the food enzyme, from it

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The new genus of stick insect Lobofemora from Vietnam, with the description of three new species (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Clitumnini)

The new genus Lobofemora gen.nov.is described BRUSH from Vietnam to accommodate three new species: L.bachmaensis sp.nov.(Bach Ma National Park, central Vietnam), L.bidoupensis sp.nov.(Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, central Vietnam) and L.scheirei sp.nov., the type species (Cat Tien National Park and Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, south Vietnam).It is pr

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