OBJECTIVE: The goal was to develop a quantifiable, self-assessment health-related quality
of life (QoL) instrument for use in cochlear implant (CI) users. DESIGN: Three principal …

The role of lower-order urban centres in regional development constitutes an important
subject of debate. The existing controversies in the literature and the lack of empirical data to …

Objective: To assess the effect of the use of cochlear implants (CI) on the health status of
postlingually deaf adults.Methods: Participants comprised 45 postlingually deaf adult …

Sixty patients were selected for cochlear implantation and 50 of them received an intracochlear
implant (Nucleus). Vestibular function was evaluated before and after surgery using a …

First published in 1987. The object of this book is to show the nature and the constraints of
the commercialization of agriculture in one of the world's major problem areas, Sub-Saharan …

Agriculture has undergone rapid changes in Turkey, the most important of which has been
mechanization. Other 'important changes have been diversification, wage labour and …

The auditory and aided lipreading performance of 8 prelingually and 11 postlingually deaf
patients who had received a single‐channel or multichannel cochlear implant was evaluated …

The general pattern of agricultural performance in Africa south of the Sahara is rather bleak.
Various publications sketch a picture of decreasing output, food shortages, rising imports, …

Individual results are presented of 4 patients with Usher's syndrome type 1 who received a
cochlear implant. Both single-channel and multichannel implants were used. Because of …

A series of case studies and comparative analyses are presented on the structure and role
of small and intermediate urban centres in different regional settings in developing countries. …