During speech production, the vocal folds may not close completely. The resulting glottal gap (GG) or incomplete glottal closure has not been systematically studied in terms of GG acoustic and/or perceptual consequences. This paper uses high-speed imaging to investigate the relationship between GG area, source parameters, acoustic measures, and voice quality for 6 subjects. Results showed that ...

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Aim: Despite grate progress in treatments, breast cancer is still the most common invasive cancer and the most cause of cancer related death in women. Treatment could be improved and perhaps standardized if more reliable markers for tumour progression and poor prognosis could be developed. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether patient-based machine learning (ML) driven ...

Background: In this study, we explored the relationship between                  neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and grade 3 or higher treatment related small bowel toxicity and treatment outcome of patients with rectal cancer undergoing capecitabine and concurrent intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Materials and Methods: From the year of 2012 to 2013, 117 rectal cancer patients who ...

The end game is an oft forgotten phase in a software project, despite the fact it can make or break a project. Successful project managers and technical leads seek to ensure their project follows a controlled glide path to a successful conclusion. However, things can and will go wrong and then success is characterized by an ability to adapt and change to meet and manage new challenges. Patterns...

In this short position paper, we present the idea concerning the utility and makeup of an application to collect cultural heritage experiences. We take a short look at what has been done in this area both from a lifelong cultural heritage perspective and that of timelines and memory logging visualization. The features for such an application and possible visualizations are discussed. In additio...

Introduction: Multiple myeloma (MM) is typically presented with abundant monoclonal secretion of one type of immunoglobulin. The other classes of immunoglobulins, which are uninvolved and not secreted by malignant plasma cells, could be decreased. A number of previous studies reported the effect of suppression of uninvolved immunoglobulins on the outcome of patients with myeloma. However, its e...

In this paper, we introduce an extension of the GSOS rule format with predicates such as termination, convergence and divergence. For this format we generalize the technique proposed by Aceto, Bloom and Vaandrager for the automatic generation of ground-complete axiomatizations of bisimilarity over GSOS systems. Our procedure is implemented in a tool that receives SOS specifications as input and...