Indicators of cognitive decline in persons with presbycusis
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Abstract
Introduction. Presbycusis or age-related hearing loss is a physiological elevation of hearing threshold and is one of the leading chronic health problems. A growing number of studies show a correlation between hearing loss in old age and decline in cognitive function. Material and Methods. The Serbian version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test was used, and the study included 56 subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of presbycusis of which 29 (51.8%) were hearing aid users. Results. The score of cognitive function in the respondents was lower compared to the results of previous research (mean = 19.07; standard deviation = 5.03). Also, there were significant differences between the scores of cognitive function in persons who used amplification and persons who did not. There was no significant correlation between gender, employment status, and the degree of hearing impairment, while the correlation was significant between the level of education, age, the length of hearing aid use, and the number of hours per day a person used a hearing aid. Regression analysis showed that about 88% of the variance of the dependent variable could be explained by four variables: age, level of education, length of hearing aid use, and daily level of hearing aid use. Conclusion. Persons with presbycusis from the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina showed poor performance scores on the cognitive ability test compared to the results of other researchers. The results showed that the length of hearing aid use and the daily level of hearing aid use significantly affect the cognitive functions in persons with presbycusis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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