introduction: phonophoresis is the use of ultrasound to enhancing cellular drug delivery through the skin. in this study the effect of clobethasole and hydrocortisone ointments phonophoresis on pain, knee osteoarthritis and some other symptoms was studied. methods: an experimental single blind randomized clinical trial (rct) was used. an available sampling technique was used for selection of pa...

background: noise prediction is considered to be the best method for evaluating cost-preventative noise controls in industrial workrooms. one of the most important issues is the development of accurate models for analysis of the complex relationships among acoustic features affecting noise level in workrooms. in this study, advanced fuzzy approaches were employed to develop relatively accurate ...

acoustic analysis of sounds produced during speech provides significant information about the physiology of larynx and vocal tract. the analysis of voice power spectrum is a fundamental sensitive method of acoustic assessment that provides valuable information about the voice source and characteristics of vocal tract resonance cavities. the changes in long-term average spectrum (ltas) spectral ...

language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...