BACKGROUND Hemangiomas of infancy vary widely in appearance, size, and depth of cutaneous involvement. There is currently no standard classification system for these lesions. While they occur in any race, an increased incidence occurs in girls, light-skinned whites, and premature infants, especially those weighing less than 1500 g. Other epidemiologic and demographic factors have not been well ...

Investigation was conducted on how prosodic features of emotional speech changed depending on emotion levels. The analysis results on fundamental frequency (F0) contours and speech rates implied that humans have several ways to express emotions and use them rather randomly. Investigation was also conducted on what acoustic features were important to express emotions. Perceptual experiments usin...

background: excessive lumbar vertebrae translation and rotation in sagittal plane has been attributed as an associated factor of lumbar segmental instability (lsi) and low back pain (lbp). reduction of these abnormalities improves back pain. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of core stability exercise on the translation and rotation of lumbar vertebrae in sagittal plane in pat...

CASE SERIES SUMMARY This case series documents ultrasonographic and clinicopathologic features of four cats with marked segmental dilatations of the common bile duct (CBD). All cats had additional ultrasonographic changes to the hepatobiliary system, including hepatomegaly, tubular to saccular intra/extrahepatic biliary duct dilatation and biliary debris accumulation. Based on all available dat...

This report examines the major characteristics of Sinhala language related to Phonetics and Phonology. The main topics under study are Segmental and Supra-segmental sounds in Spoken Sinhala. The first part presents Sinhala Phonemic Inventory, which describes phonemes with their associated features and phonotactics of Sinhala. Supra-segmental features like Syllabification, Stress, Pitch and Into...