Glossary
AIFRS |
Australian equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards. |
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AGM |
Annual General Meeting. |
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ASIC |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission. |
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ASX |
Australian Securities Exchange. |
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Binaural hearing |
Hearing with both ears. |
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BTE |
Behind-the-ear speech processor. |
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Channel/Multi-channel |
Pairs of electrodes that stimulate the cochlea. A multi-channel implant that has multiple pairs of electrodes that give implant recipients more options for choosing the most responsive hearing nerve fibres, providing richer pitch information and improving hearing in noisy environments. |
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DACS |
Direct acoustic cochlear stimulator. |
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EAS |
Electro-acoustic stimulation. |
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ERP |
Enterprise resource planning. |
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F05 |
Financial Year 2005: 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. |
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F06 |
Financial Year 2006: 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. |
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F07 |
Financial Year 2007: 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. |
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F08 |
Financial Year 2008: 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008. |
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MAP |
The term used to describe an individual’s “listening program”. It is stored in the memory of the speech processor and tells the implant how to activate electrodes in the array depending on the incoming signal. |
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Previous GAAP |
Previous Australian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. |
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Processor/speech processor |
The externally worn part of the cochlear implant system. |
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R&D |
Research and development. |
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SmartSound |
Set of sound processing algorithms which enhance hearing performance. |
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TSR |
Total shareholder return. |