introduction adenotonsillar hypertrophy is a common disorder among children which, without proper treatment, may lead to considerable problems. although the consequences of this disorder have been studied in other articles, we decided to evaluate the changes in pulmonary function tests in these children after adenotonsillectomy, and the correlation between clinical and spirometric parameters.  ...

Transcribed speech is a critical resource for building statistical speech recognition systems. Recent work has looked towards soliciting transcriptions for large speech corpora from native speakers of the language using crowdsourcing techniques. However, native speakers of the target language may not be readily available for crowdsourcing. We examine the following question: can humans unfamilia...

Los resultados del Proyecto de Investigación 3.8 fueron evaluados por Rita Aparecida da Conceição Ribeiro, miembro Comité Externo Evaluación Instituto en Diseño y su dictamen se transcribe a continuación.

introduction: mucous retention cysts are a subtype of intracordal vocal cysts that may occur spontaneously or may be associated with poor vocal hygiene, and which require optimal treatment. the objective of this study was to present a new laser-assisted microsurgery technique for treating intracordal mucous retention cysts and to describe the final outcomes.   materials and methods: in this pro...

background: occupational asthma (oa) is the most common occupational lung disease in developed countries. one of the causative agents is metal fume that may be encountered in steel industries. screening for the oa is mainly performed by questionnaire but in our country spirometry is used more commonly. objective: to compare the diagnostic value of the venables standardized respiratory questionn...

from the different laboratories may, in part, be due to the use of the different techniques in the experiments. It is evident from these studies that the precise mechanism by which 5-FUra inhibits cellular prolif eration and exerts its cytotoxic effects has not been fully elucidated. Early electron microscopic studies showed alterations in the nucleo lar size after 5-FUra treatment (9). Using a...

Although tremendous progress has been made in speech recognition technology, with the capability of todays state-of-the-art systems to transcribe unrestricted continuous speech from broadcast data, these systems rely on the availability of large amounts of manually transcribed acoustic training data. Obtaining such data is both time-consuming and expensive, requiring trained human annotators wi...