Development and Evaluation of a New CI Pitch Perception Test - the Glide Tone Test

Current speech-encoding strategies in cochlear implants (CI’s) do not provide their users with sufficient spectral resolution for complex listening tasks and pitch perception. This paper presents a new test that has been developed to assess pitch perception: the glide tone test (GTT). A total of 25 normal hearing (NH) participants were tested to...

Design of a Fully Electric (Battery/Fuel Cell) Submarine

To improve the submerged time of diesel-electric submarines (SSK), air independent power (AIP) systems have been developed in the past. So far only submarines with AIP systemsin combination with one or more diesel generator (DG) sets are designed and built. The increased technological readiness level of modern fuel cells (FC) and the energy...

social housing on the move

Both the public and the European Commission have criticized the past actions of Dutch housing associations. A new housing act has become applicable, which would force housing associations to change their conduct on the rental housing market. Important developments include the allocation of households with a low income to social dwellings, a...

Laboratory Space in Berlin

Research and Design for a mixed used building in Berlin on the Tacheles site. The research focusses on the phenomenon of laboratory spaces: bottom up used superfluous (previously unused) space with a creative function. The design of the building mimics the characteristics of the urban conditions of these laboratory spaces. A generous amount os...

Inhibit Sense Multiple Access in Systems with propagation delays

It is well known that on a (wireless) data link there is a certain propagation delay. For the performance of certain random access protocols, such as non-persistent Inhibit Sense Multiple Access (ISMA), this is of great influence. The effect of different signalling delays for different terminals introduces non-stationary Poisson statistics of...