conclusions immediate repair of the facial nerve injury will improve the process of recovery and rehabilitation of the face and forehead muscles and may play a very important role in the patient’s mental satisfaction and improve their quality of life. introduction facial paralysis is common following accidents, trauma, viral infection or tumors. case presentation a 24-year-old male patient was ...

objectives: although for those spinal cord injury (sci) patients with paralysis of the legs but not at arms, the primary means of mobility post injury is the manual wheelchair, there are many physiological and psychological advantages to standing and walking, such as improvement in respiratory function, lower limb weight bearing and preventing osteoporosis, pressure sores prevention etc. high m...

On the basis of dissections of 32 temporal bones of the guinea pig, measurements were taken of selected size parameters of the temporal bone. The measurements performed included external and internal size parameters of the bone. Among these were the following: the length, width and height of the external and internal auditory meatus, the length of the incudomallear complex, the height of the at...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to describe spatial and temporal parameters during gait in pregnant women, and to compare it with women in post-partum and with a control group. METHODS To investigate alteration in natural locomotion, we used an electronic walkway (GAITRite system). Fifty-eight pregnant women (four last months of pregnancy), nine post-partum women and twenty-three heal...

In this study, we investigated how well acoustic events extracted from a cross-spectral temporal measure could be used to classify the manner and voicing of consonants. In particular, we developed seven measures that look at the strength and time difference between various onsets and offsets of acoustic energy. Consistent with findings by Shannon et al. (1995), our classification results show t...

[1] We present an approach to infer mass transfer parameters based on (1) an analytical model that relates the temporal moments of mobile and bulk concentration and (2) a bicontinuum modification to Archie’s law. Whereas conventional geochemical measurements preferentially sample from the mobile domain, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is sensitive to bulk electrical conductivity and, th...

In this paper, we investigate the application of temporal decomposition (TD) technique to describe the temporal patterns of speech excitation parameter contours, i.e. gain, pitch, and voicing. We use a common set of event functions to describe the temporal structure of both spectral and excitation parameters, and then quantize them. Experimental results show that each speech excitation paramete...

In this paper, we present a restricted temporal decomposition method for LSF parameters. The event vectors estimated by this method preserve the ordering property of LSF parameters so that they can be quantized efficiently. Experimental results show that interpolated LSF parameters can be quantized transparently at the rate of 753 bps. We also design a LPC vocoder at 996 bps as an application o...

Observations by the Ulysses SWOOPS plasma experiment are used to investigate spatial and temporal gradients during the mission, with emphasis on more recent high latitude observations including the recent South Pole to North Pole passage during solar minimum. Compared to lower latitudes, the high latitude solar wind had higher average speed, proton temperature, and momentum flux, and lower numb...

UNLABELLED Temporal resolution enables the identification of fine differences in speech segmental aspects. Random Gap Detection Test (RGDT) and Gaps-In-Noise Test (GIN) evaluate such skills, by using different acoustic parameters. OBJECTIVE To compare the performance of normal school aged children without learning disabilities and/or hearing complaints in the GIN and RGDT, and analyze potenti...