Variability of Preference-Based Adjustments on Hearing Aid Frequency-Gain Response.

Purpose: Although users can customize the frequency-gain response of hearing aids, the variability in their individual adjustments remains a concern. This study investigated the within-subject variability in the gain adjustments made within a single self-adjustment procedure.

Method: Two experiments were conducted with 20 older adults with mild-to-severe hearing loss.

Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator.

Coloniality is strongly shaped by aspects of social foraging behaviour. For example, colonies may be important sources of information, while food competition may increase foraging efforts and limit colony size. Understanding foraging ecology considering these apparent trade-offs is required to develop a better understanding of colonial living.

ExMove: An open-source toolkit for processing and exploring animal-tracking data in R.

Ongoing technological advances have led to a rapid increase in the number, type and scope of animal-tracking studies. In response, many software tools have been developed to analyse animal movement data. These tools generally focus on movement modelling, but the steps required to clean raw data files from different tracking devices have been largely ignored.

A Critical Review of Icosapent Ethyl in Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.

Icosapent ethyl (IPE) was the first fish oil product the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved to reduce the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in adults. IPE is an esterified version of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and acts as a prodrug in the body to exert its effects. IPE affects the body primarily through triglyceride (TG) reduction and was initially indicated for hypertriglyceridemia in addition to statin therapy or for patients with statin intolerances.

Spectral weighting for sentence recognition in steady-state and amplitude-modulated noise.

Spectral weights in octave-frequency bands from 0.25 to 4 kHz were estimated for speech-in-noise recognition using two sentence materials (i.e.