in clinical management of singers it’s important to identify risk components of vocal fatigue and glottic damage, predicting and assessing the vocal cost of the various vocal performances to avoid any risk. despite many difficulties, we made dosimetries on singers (9 opera and 9 musical) during live theatre performances. our aim was to evaluate phonatory behaviours before, during and after perf...

BACKGROUND Perioperative examination ofthe vocal folds with flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy is not always feasible. Prior studies suggest vocal fold ultrasound may provide a useful screening tool, however, correlation to laryngoscopic findings is necessary. The purpose of the case series was to validate vocal fold ultrasound in the adult population and to correlate the ultrasound findings to t...

we shall prove an existence inequality for two maps on banach algebra, withan example and in sequel we have some results on r and rn spaces. this waycan be applied for generalization of some subjects of mathematics in teachingwhich how we can extend a math problem to higher level.

background: breakfast cereal is a nutritious type of food that is widely consumed by various age groups in kuwait. this study investigates the presence of long-lived gamma emitters in breakfast cereal, and estimates annual effective doses to various age groups. materials and methods: breakfast cereal samples were collected from the kuwaiti local market. the samples originated from different cou...

Previously, we proposed a speaker recognition system using a combination of MFCC-based vocal tract feature and phase information which includes rich vocal source information. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of combination of various vocal tract features (MFCC and LPCC) and vocal source features (phase and LPC residual) for normal-duration and short-duration utterance. The Japanese ...

In laryngeal paralysis, the stiffness of the denervated vocal fold is decreased. This leads to deviant vibratory patterns involving 2 asymmetric vocal folds and results in abnormal vocal quality. Follow-up studies of medialization thyroplasty patients have noted that decrement in vocal quality after medialization is often because of continuing vocal fold atrophy. Vocal cord atrophy from denerva...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS This study intends to objectively quantify and compare the regression rates of vocal lesions in patients receiving either vocal fold steroid injection (VFSI) or vocal hygiene education (VHE). Potential influence of occupational vocal demands on the treatment outcome was also investigated. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS This study enrolled 176 patients ...

Songbirds are one of the few groups of animals that learn the sounds used for vocal communication during development. Like humans, songbirds memorize vocal sounds based on auditory experience with vocalizations of adult "tutors", and then use auditory feedback of self-produced vocalizations to gradually match their motor output to the memory of tutor sounds. In humans, investigations of early v...

In this   paper,  we   present  some  refinements  of the   famous Young  type  inequality.   As  application  of   our   result, we  obtain  some  matrix inequalities   for   the  Hilbert-Schmidt norm  and   the  trace   norm. The results    obtained   in  this  paper  can  be   viewed   as  refinement  of  the   derived  results   by  H.  Kai  [Young  type  inequalities  for matrices,  J.  Ea...