Background: Early and accurate detection of respiratory viruses (RV) is important for patient management. We have previously shown that self-collected nasal swabs (NS) are feasible as sensitive clinician-collected washes RV, but the additive benefit throat unknown.Objectives: To test rise in auto sufficient yields to patients with upper (URTI) symptoms PCR identification RV.Study Design: Patien...

The Lygodactylus genus is one of the most species-rich genera gekkonid lizards in Africa. It relatively few exclusively diurnal geckos’ lineages and its members include some smallest gekkonids. Osteological features within have never been addressed detail. We here provide a detailed bone-by-bone skull description picturatus to expand knowledgebase on gecko cranial structure. High-Resolution X-r...

Chinese languages have a set of segments known as apical vowels, which been analysed in previous studies either genuine fricative consonants, or approximants. This study is concerned with the vowel attested Jixi-Hui Chinese. We examine this segment from acoustic and articulatory perspectives argue that it best defined /z/. Phonologically, /z/ distinct phoneme exclusively syllable nucleus positi...

Rendaku is a morphophonological process in Japanese, which the first consonant of second element compounds becomes voiced (e.g. /ao-sora/ → [ao-zora] ‘blue sky’). In recent paper, Kim (2022) argues that presence two nasals—but not one nasal— reduces probability application /umi-kamome/ [umi-kamome], *[umi-gamome] ‘seagull’). This claim has an important consequence for grammatical theories, as i...

Post-nasal voicing is a typologically and historically common process. This process, by which voiceless obstruents become voiced after nasals, has a well-known aerodynamic and perceptual basis: (i) prolonged voicing into the stop closure, vis-à-vis postvocalic stops, due to nasal leakage before full velic closure is achieved and oral cavity expansion due to the velum continuing to raise after v...

The Early Carboniferous stem tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae is among the earliest-branching limbed tetrapods represented by multiple near-complete specimens, making it an important taxon in understanding vertebrate water-to-land transition. However, all preserved skulls of suffer from post-mortem crushing and lateral compression, which has made cranial reconstruction problematic. In this study, co...

Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language is the national of India and state various North Indian states such as Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh etc. Statistics on phonemes a provides useful information in field speech pathology, audiology, linguistics communication engineering. The data can be effectively used for assessment selection target treatment disorders, develop phonetically balanced word lis...

Abstract Background Speech perception in cochlear implants (CI) is affected by frequency resolution, exposure time, and working memory. Frequency discrimination especially difficult CI. Working memory important for speech language development expected to contribute the vast variability CI reception expression outcome. The aim of this study evaluate patients’ consonants that varies voicing, mann...

South Asian river dolphins (Platanista gangetica) are among the most endangered of world's cetaceans. The two subspecies in family Platanistidae, Indus, and Ganges (P. g. minor P. gangetica), both threatened by dams barrages, declining flows, fisheries bycatch, pollution. We examine differences external skull morphology between each system to clarify their taxonomic status. Skulls from could ea...