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Bed bugs. Natural cleaning. Bicycling and erectile dysfunction. Women's health. Sleep. Hearing Loop Systems for Residential and Commercial Use - Assist2Hear.com. GET IN THE LOOP! Don't be left behind...... Assist 2 Hear, LLC is proud to be at the forefront of the initiative to professionally install induction hearing loops in Colorado and across the nation. Our mission is to help spread the word of this simple and effective technology which helps so many hear and understand! You will find a listing of known public and private installations of loops in Colorado on our Loop Colorado Directory page.

Loop initiatives are gearing up nationwide. Read on to find out more about induction hearing loops and how they can help those with hearing aids hear clearly in venues that typically have been difficult or impossible to understand what the speaker is saying. This testimonial is from a parent in Wisconsin who had a loop installed in their TV room for their two hard of hearing daughters: Vicki Denzin - mother of 2 girls who use hearing aids Neenah, WI September 2011 "The girls are loving it. What is an induction loop? DOWNLOAD A PDF about Looping America. Loops_and_Telecoils : Message: Re: [Loops_and_Telecoils] Now: A Loop Design That Overcomes T-Coil Orientation Problems.

We normally differentiate between phased arrays used to compensate for the metal in the structure of the building and ones used to achieve "low spill". If you want a regular coverage in an area more than say about 5m wide (15ft) we would normally recommend a phased array. This is relatively easy to design. One would normally do measurements in the building before planing the system as the loss say on a concrete floor can vary by a factor of at least 3 depending on how the steel reinforcements in the building have been fitted. Normally the higher the building the higher the loss as more metal is required to hold the building together. But I have come across one story buildings with a huge metal loss - the problem is just looking at the building or even discussing with the architect or engineer will not give you the information you require.

Any such system has less spill than a standard perimeter loop system but if you want really low spill then you need a special design. David Norman. Hearing Loop. LoopFAQs.doc. Frequent Questions.

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Decoding the Body Watcher. What's the difference between noticing the rapid beat of a popular song on the radio and noticing the rapid rate of your heart when you see your crush? Between noticing the smell of fresh baked bread and noticing that you're out of breath? Both require attention. However, the direction of that attention differs: it is either turned outward, as in the case of noticing a stop sign or a tap on your shoulder, or turned inward, as in the case of feeling full or feeling love. Scientists have long held that attention – regardless to what – involves mostly the prefrontal cortex, that frontal region of the brain responsible for complex thought and unique to humans and advanced mammals. A recent study by Norman Farb from the University of Toronto published in Cerebral Cortex, however, suggests a radically new view: there are different ways of paying attention.

Most of us prioritize externally oriented attention. These findings have important implications for emotional well-being.

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Health. World's first super predator had remarkable vision. South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of Earth's first food chain. This story will be accompanied by an artist's impression of the super predator on the front cover of the 8 December 2011 issue of Nature. Palaeontologists have discovered exceptionally preserved fossil eyes of the top predator in the Cambrian ocean from over 500 million years ago: the fearsome metre-long Anomalocaris.

The scientists show that the world's first apex predator had highly acute vision, rivalling or exceeding that of most living insects and crustaceans. The international team behind this discovery includes two Adelaide researchers, Dr Michael Lee (SA Museum and University of Adelaide -- Environment Institute and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences) and Dr Jim Jago (SA Museum and UniSA), and was led by Dr John Paterson (University of New England). This video could save your life.. What To Do If You Have A Heart Attack when you are all ALONE!!! Can Mold Cause Pneumonia? Brittany Murphy's Mom Says Mold Caused Daughter's Death. Study shows lab rats would rather free a friend than eat chocolate.

By Muriel KaneFriday, December 9, 2011 22:42 EDT A new study has, demonstrated the existence of empathy-driven behavior in laboratory rats. In an experiment carried out by University of Chicago neuroscientists, pairs of rats that normally shared a cage were placed in a special area, where one was confined to a closed tube with a door that could be opened from the outside while the other remained able to roam around freely. The researchers observed that “the free rat acted more agitated when its cagemate was restrained, compared to its activity when the rat was placed in a cage with an empty restrainer.” This kind of “emotional contagion” had been observed previously in tats — but what happened next was more unexpected. As described by Science Daily, “After several daily restraint sessions, the free rat learned how to open the restrainer door and free its cagemate. “We are not training these rats in any way,” one of the designers of the experiment explained.

Muriel Kane.

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