Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is an acute neurologic emergency. We report the case of a 48-year-old male with massive SAH caused by ruptured aneurysm vertebrobasilar transition. During urgent craniotomy, due to re-rupture, adenosine was given for flow arrest but no sinus pause observed. Esmolol administered and strategies cerebral protection were implemented. The surgeon able clip pa...

aim and background: deficit of theory of mind is a fundamental impairment of social skill in autistic children. the purpose of present study was evaluation of cognitive rehabilitation on social cognition abilities of children with high function autism. methods and materials: in present single subject study, 4 children with high function autism participated in study with no probably sampling. si...

Pausing in speech allows a speaker to plan for the upcoming utterance, as well as to indicate to the listener finality of utterance. In this paper I examine pause patterning and IPU length in two typologically distinct Australian languages; Dalabon and Kayardild. Results show that Dalabon prefers considerably longer stretches of continuous speech than Kayardild. Preliminary findings reveal that...

Detection extrasystoles in heart rate sequences is investigated. Decision making is based on short-term specific random elements in random sequences recognition theory. Three types of extrasystoles are detected: extrasystoles with a noncompensatory post-extrasystolic pause, extrasystoles with a compensatory post-extrasystolic pause, and interpolated extrasystoles. The decision opens the possibi...

Our study set out to determine the acoustic markedness and potential communicative function of two types of silent pauses that differ in terms of speakers‘ breathing behaviour: (1) pauses with sustained breathing (breathing pauses), and (2) pauses with breath-holds (non-breathing pauses). Our first hypothesis postulates the existence of an articulatory reset in case of a breathing pause and an ...

To study the behavior of the pause within the temporal structure of the speech, the combination of perceptual and acousticphonetic analysis is used for the delineation and measurement of the interruption of the audible flow of a theatrical interpretation performed by a single actor. Pauses were classified according to structural, functional, distributional and temporal criteria. The relevance o...

The present paper provides an acoustic description of macrointensity patterns of stress units (prosodic words) in read Czech, as reflected by the intensity of syllable nuclei. Normalized intensity values show that there is a gradual macrodynamic decrease over the inter-pause group, followed typically by a significant intensity reset. Local intensity drops occur between the last two syllables of...

In this study we investigated how pause length and pause ratio influence listeners in ascribing emotional states to the speaker, if nothing but the length of the pauses changes. We did this by taking emotionally neutral speech samples and manipulating the length of pauses. Our results show that the same speech samples were perceived to be happier, more positive, more heated, and concurrently le...