OBJECTIVES To assess the overall efficacy of voice therapy for dysphonia. DESIGN Single blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Outpatient clinic in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 204 outpatients aged 17-87 with a primary symptom of persistent hoarseness for at least two months. INTERVENTIONS After baseline assessments, patients were randomised to six weeks of either voice therapy...

Thirty-eight children with chronic active hepatitis are reported. Their mode of presentation was usually indistinguishable from acute viral hepatitis (63%). Extra hepatic manifestations were more common in those patients with an insidious onset. The twentyeight patients tested for hepatitis B antigen (HB Ag) were all negative and SGOT values were higher (mean 1000 i.u./l) than those reported in...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present pilot study is to investigate whether the beneficial short-term effects of voice therapy in patients with voice problems after treatment of early glottic cancer as reported in our earlier study remain present on the long term. STUDY DESIGN In this prospective study, 12 patients, selected based on a screening questionnaire about voice problems and randomly ...

We describe further improvements of the ηT pairing algorithm in characteristic three. Our approach combines the loop unrolling technique introduced by Granger et. al for the Duursma-Lee algorithm, and a novel algorithm for multiplication over F36m proposed by Gorla et al. at SAC 2007. For m = 97, the refined algorithm reduces the number of multiplications over F3m from 815 to 692.

Speech Pathologists use behavioural voice therapy to treat a wide variety of patients who suffer from dysphonia. In all cases these voice disorders can result in severe disability, distress and handicap as well as economic hardship and psychological trauma for the individual) [1-3] reported on the evidence base for primary speech/voice therapy intervention in five types of voice disorders. : Fu...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of auditory-verbal rehabilitation on voice parameters after implantation with cochlear implants 2 and 5 months after rehabilitation and compare them with normal voice children (under 12 years of age). A perceptive and electroacoustic evaluation of voice was carried out through a digital analysis after implantation and rehabilitation. The study was pe...