PURPOSE The supracricoid laryngectomies (SCLs) are conservative surgical techniques for the treatment of selected laryngeal carcinomas. The advantage of SCL is that a permanent tracheostoma is not required, thus, maintaining the principal laryngeal functions. The aim of the study is to report objective, subjective, and self-assessment long-term results of voice and swallowing in a large group o...

force behind the well-known nasalization and lateralization phenomena in Korean. Previous analyses of Korean nasalization and lateralization have accounted for the patterns of alternation by reference to rules of various types and rule ordering, with more recent analyses incorporating feature geometry with underspecification. While some of the previous research has indeed noted the importance o...

AIMS A case-control study was performed to evaluate soft contact lens (SCL) wear modality as a risk factor for microbial keratitis. METHODS Contact lens wearers presenting as new patients to Moorfields Eye Hospital accident and emergency department during a 12 month period completed a self administered questionnaire detailing demographic data and contact lens use habits. Cases were patients w...

In this paper we examine the phonotactics of consonant clusters in Moenat Ladin terms their markedness and temporal coordination. word-initial include sibilant-stop (SC), stop-/r/ (Cr), stop-/l/ (Cl), sibilant-stop-/r/ (SCr). However, despite SC Cl sequences being well-formed Moenat, sibilant-stop-/l/ (SCl) are almost entirely unattested. We hypothesize that rarity SCl owes to a cumulative effe...

In this paper, stability analysis of walking gaits and robustness analysis are developed for a five-link and four-actuator biped robot. Stability conditions are derived by studying unactuated dynamics and using the Poincaré map associated with periodic walking gaits. A stable gait is designed by an optimization process satisfying physical constraints and stability conditions. Also, considering...