- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Noise Effects and Management
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Advancements in Materials Engineering
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability
- Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Ear Surgery and Otitis Media
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Ear Science Institute Australia
2020-2025
The University of Western Australia
2020-2021
University of Twente
2014-2016
University of Groningen
2005-2012
Two decades after the launch of Local Agenda 21 in Rio de Janeiro, we have witnessed emergence and development local initiatives sustainable development. energy communities are a clear manifestation this The questions paper raises as follows: can be considered seedbeds innovation? If so, how such lead to innovations supply? We applied desk research reviewed secondary literature. answered empirically theoretically. Empirically, analyses causes manifestations community throughout Europe...
Increasing numbers of households install renewable energy production systems like photovoltaic panels thereby contributing to a more sustainable system. Other developments, in-home storage or peer-to-peer exchange within neighbourhood, also contribute the transition. This paper explores emerging rise these prosumers electricity and its implications, in particular for grid management supply Netherlands. With help an agent-based model, we illustrate evolution prosumption small Dutch-oriented...
Objective To identify the approaches taken by audiologists to address their adult clients' psychosocial needs related hearing loss.Design A participatory mixed methods design. Participants generated statements describing ways in which of clients with loss are addressed, and then grouped into themes. Data were obtained using face-to-face online structured questions. Concept mapping techniques used key concepts map each relative other.Study sample An international 65 audiologists.Results...
Objectives: We evaluate the relative effectiveness of a newly available tinnitus treatment approach for different categories patients in general private practice. Methods: This was cohort study, sponsored by Neuromonics, involving first 470 to undertake Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment 7 clinics. All were provided with dynamic acoustic neural stimulus, customized each patient's audiometric profile, daily use as part structured rehabilitation program. disturbance assessed before, during, and...
Objective To explore the perceived benefit and likely implementation of approaches used by audiologists to address their adult clients' psychosocial needs related hearing loss.Design Adults with loss completed separate, but related, surveys rate also use 66 clinical (divided over seven themes) that aim loss.Study sample A 52 Australian adults loss, an international 19 audiologists.Results Overall, participants rated all highly on both likelihood use; highest ranked theme was Providing...
A major objective of Dutch energy programmes and strategies is the reduction in emission greenhouse gases, especially CO2. The CO2 target currently being pursued by Netherlands 2% annually 2020 below 1990 levels. Climate change mitigation has been receiving political attention for a long time, resulting particularly close incorporation measures into comprehensive, long-term climate policy programme, which started 1998 after country signed Kyoto treaty.
The benefits of cochlear implantation in children with severe hearing impairments are widely known; however, there is no consensus regarding which minimal outcome measurements (MOMs) should be used to determine outcomes this population pediatric implant (CI).Therefore, the authors aim propose a MOM test battery for CI recipients that can facilitate international multi-center research and collaboration.A was developed agreed-upon by members HEARRING group across 30 expert clinics field...