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Recent guidelines encourage the use of Webet test (WT) as a part of the physical examination of a newly suspected sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) patient. However, the most sensitive tuning-fork frequency has never been identified.To identify the most sensitive frequency for initial WT of patients with suspected SSNHL.Medical records of patients with confirmed SSNHL, who underwent formal audiometry in which the WT was carried out with different frequencies were analyzed.319 medical records were identified. The most sensitive WT frequency was 500 Hz, with a sensitivity of 94.49% (223/236. confidence interval 90.76-97.03). There was a non-significant difference between 1000 Hz EBO and 500 Hz EBO (The most sensitive WT frequency for SSNHL diagnosis is 500 Hz. However, the sensitivity of this frequency is 94.49%.512 or 1024 Hz should be used to better identified SSNHL. Even WT lateralization to the affected ear, does not preclude the diagnosis of SSNHL. Formal audiometry should be used in any case of medical history suspected for sudden hearing loss with normal otoscopy.

The Kraus-Weber test of minimum muscular fitness was administered to 38 trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children. The results revealed that: The TMR group was seriously deficient in muscular fitness when compared with four groups of normal children; the TMR group was not necessarily retarded in flexibility when compared with four groups of normal children; the TMR girls tended to be more muscularly fit and more flexible than the boys; the lower back test item caused the greatest percentage of failure for the TMR group; 63.3 percent of the 30 failures were multiple; there was no difference between the TMR boys' and girls' multiple failures.

In this study, 1,195 elementary school children were tested with the Kraus-Weber test of Minimum Muscular Fitness and compared with other geographical surveys. The Eugene group yielded a 38.1 per cent test failure. They were, by sex and age, superior to those in other published American studies. At no time, however, did any American sample score lower than the European youth. Of the 455 Eugene children who failed the Test, 78.7 per cent failed only one item. The flexibility item not only accounted for the greatest number of these failures, but at every age level caused the girls to appear more “muscularly fit” than the boys.

This paper presents results of the Kraus-Weber Test for Minimum Muscular Fitness which was conducted in East Pakistan. A total of 2325 Pakistani male and female school children were subjects. The results were compared with reports of the original tests in the United States and Europe. The testing program revealed that Pakistani children were less able than European children in passing the six test items. They were, however, more successful than American children included in the original report of the Kraus-Weber Test.

The Kraus-Weber Test of muscular fitness was administered to a population of 1456 elementary school children. Results indicate: 1. The Test and Test items are highly reliable. 2. There is no relationship between grip strength and success on the Test. 3. Girls are substantially superior to boys at all levels in passing the Test, and in flexibility. 4. For both sexes, there is a decided decrease in strength item failure as age increases. By the time the children are 11 years of age the percentage of failure on any item is less than 8 per cent, and agrees very closely with the results found for European children.

This study extended the Kraus-Weber Tests of Minimum Muscular Fitness in order to provide more differentiating scores at all levels of ability. A pass or fail score, which could be determined from the continuous scoring system, was also obtained. Results indicate that strength and flexibility differ with age and sex and that the standards, even though considered minimal, should also vary with the different ages and sex groups.

The lateralisation of bone-conducted sound from the forehead (Weber test) is discussed. Perception of tones from the handle of a tuning fork in the ear affected with conduction deafness only is due not to better bone-conduction of this ear, but to an effect of veritable perception of sound direction by phase differences. The paper contains notes on the theory of bone-conducted sounds and Mr. Fournier's Faux-Bing test.