HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN INDIA: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION, AND SUGGESTED APPROACHES

Hearing screening program for school going children in India: necessity, justification, and suggested approaches

Abstract Background It is estimated that about 15% of students have transient hearing loss worldwide sufficient enough to interfere with communication, psychosocial relationship, and learning resulting in poor educational achievement and poverty.However, these conditions are reversible through timely detection and effective interventions.India is h

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Measuring Mentalizing Ability: A Within-Subject Comparison between an Explicit and Implicit Version of a Ball Detection Task.

The concept of mentalizing has been widely studied, but almost exclusively through tasks with explicit instructions.Recent studies suggest that people also mentalize on a more implicit level.However, to our knowledge, no study to date has directly contrasted the effects of implicit and explicit mentalizing processes on an implicit dependent measure

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EquiFACS: The Equine Facial Action Coding System.

Although previous studies of horses have investigated their facial expressions in specific contexts, e.g.pain, until now there has been no methodology available that documents all the possible facial movements of the horse and provides a way to record all potential facial configurations.This is essential for an objective description of horse facial

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