The human voice is dynamic and changes throughout the life span. The effects of age and gender on acoustical measures of voice quality have been well established. Assessment of voice quality using multiparametric measures has been recommended over singleton measures. Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI), which is a multiparametric measure of voice quality, has gained popularity in the recent past. Studies investigating the effect of age on AVQI are very limited especially across the life span. The...
To investigate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Vocal Tract Discomfort Scale, known as Escala de Desconforto do Trato Vocal (EDTV), based on factor analysis, in patients with dysphonia.
To demonstrate physiological changing of vocal tract's structures during overtone singing with commercial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Fast Imaging Employing Steady State Acquisition (FIESTA) dynamic sequence.
Injection laryngoplasty (IL) is performed to reduce the gap between vocal folds induced by unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP). Voice quality after IL may be different due to other factors that influence voice quality. Voice therapy has been reported to improve voice quality after IL in patients with UVFP. This study evaluated the efficacy of voice therapy combined with IL.
: The present study aimed to translate, validate the Reflux Symptom Index in Kannada language and to compare its outcomes between normal individuals and individuals with laryngopharyngeal reflux.
Vocal process granuloma (VPG) has a varied treatment success rate and may frustrate patients and physicians due to poor outcomes. There is still a lack of standard protocols to manage VPG. This study aimed to review the efficiency of a standardized low-dose laryngeal electromyographic (LEMG)-guided botulinum toxin A (BTA) injection in intractable vocal granulomas.
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Abstract Context Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most frequent form of endocrine hypertension. Besides its deleterious impact on cardiovascular target organ damage, PA is considered to cause osteoporosis. Patients and methods We assessed bone turnover in a subset of 36 postmenopausal women with PA. 18 patients had unilateral PA and were treated by...
Abstract Aim The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and relationship of islet antibodies and autoantibodies of the most common associated autoimmune diseases—autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) and celiac disease, in adult Bulgarian patients with type 1 diabetes of short duration. Material and methods 160 type 1 diabetes patients, of mean...
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Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Medical Image AnalysisAuthor(s): Yingda Xia, Dong Yang, Zhiding Yu, Fengze Liu, Jinzheng Cai, Lequan Yu, Zhuotun Zhu, Daguang Xu, Alan Yuille, Holger Roth
Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Medical Image AnalysisAuthor(s): Abib Alimi, Samuel Deslauriers-Gauthier, Felix Matuschke, Andreas Müller, Sascha E.A. Muenzing, Markus Axer, Rachid Deriche
Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Medical Image AnalysisAuthor(s): Islem Mhiri, Anouar Ben Khalifa, Mohamed Ali Mahjoub, Islem Rekik
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Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Journal of ProteomicsAuthor(s): Juan J. Calvete, Fabián Bonilla, Sofía Granados-Martínez, Libia Sanz, Bruno Lomonte, Mahmood Sasa
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Journal of ProteomicsAuthor(s): Corina Itze-Mayrhofer, Gottfried Brem
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Colistin is considered as a last resort treatment for infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Plasmid-mediated mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes contributed to the global spread of colis...
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Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyAuthor(s): Andrzej Nowicki, Barbara Gambin, Wojciech Secomski, Zbigniew Trawinski, Michal Szubielski, Robert Olszewski
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyAuthor(s): Verena J.M.M. Schrier, Stefanie Evers, Jennifer R. Geske, Walter K. Kremers, Hector R. Villarraga, Ruud W. Selles, Steven E.R. Hovius, Russell Gelfman, Peter C. Amadio
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyAuthor(s): Tin-Quoc Nguyen, Marie Sand Traberg, Jacob Bjerring Olesen, Søren Thorup Heerwagen, Andreas Hjelm Brandt, Thor Bechsgaard, Brian Lindegaard Pedersen, Ramin Moshavegh, Lars Lönn, Jørgen Arendt Jensen, Michael Bachmann Nielsen, Kristoffer Lindskov Hansen
Publication date: August 2020Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Volume 46, Issue 8Author(s):
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Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyAuthor(s): Michael Cimorelli, Michael A. Flynn, Brett Angel, Emily Reimold, Aaron Fafarman, Richard Huneke, Andrew Kohut, Steven Wrenn
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Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: CortexAuthor(s): Liuba Papeo
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: CortexAuthor(s): Maria Tsantani, Katie L.H. Gray, Richard Cook
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Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: CortexAuthor(s): Halima Rafi, François Bogacz, David Sander, Olga Klimecki
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Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): T. Jayakumar, Jesnu Jose Benoy, H. Mohamed Yasin
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Go-Eun Jeong, Dam Hee Lee, Yoon Se Lee, Dae Seong Ahn, Dong Kyu Lee, Seung-Ho Choi, Soon Yuhl Nam, Sang Yoon Kim
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Sauana Alves Leite de Alencar, Jozemar Pereira dos Santos, Larissa Nadjara Almeida, João Agnaldo do Nascimento, Leonardo Wanderley Lopes, Anna Alice Almeida
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Filippo Barbiera, Antonio Lo Casto, Bruno Murmura, Giovanni Bortoluzzi, Ilaria Orefice, Alfonso Gianluca Gucciardo
Publication date: July 2020Source: Journal of Voice, Volume 34, Issue 4Author(s):
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Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Che-Fang Ho, Yi-Chan Lee, Li-Jen Hsin, Li-Ang Lee, Hsueh-Yu Li, Tuan-Jen Fang
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Priyanka Suresh Nayak, Radish Kumar Balasubramanium, Dhanshree R Gunjawate
Publication date: Available online 24 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Tamás Hacki, Mieke Moerman, John S Rubin
Publication date: Available online 24 June 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Christopher C. Xiao, Luke S. Schloegel, Nancy Jiang
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Differentiation of high-grade and low-grade intra-axial brain tumors by time-dependent diffusion MRI
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Magnetic Resonance ImagingAuthor(s): Tomoko Maekawa, Masaaki Hori, Katsutoshi Murata, Thorsten Feiweier, Kouhei Kamiya, Christina Andica, Akifumi Hagiwara, Shohei Fujita, Saori Koshino, Toshiaki Akashi, Koji Kamagata, Akihiko Wada, Osamu Abe, Shigeki Aoki
Publication date: September 2020Source: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Volume 71Author(s):
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Magnetic Resonance ImagingAuthor(s): Ken E. Sakaie, Barry Kuban, Aaron Fleischman, Meghan DeBenedictis, Aleksandra Rachitskaya, Alex Yuan, Arup Roy, Mark J. Lowe
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Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Human PathologyAuthor(s): Anne Grabenstetter, Abhinita S. Mohanty, Satshil Rana, Ahmet Zehir, A. Rose Brannon, Timothy M. D’Alfonso, Deborah F. DeLair, Lee K. Tan, Dara S. Ross
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While drug reactions to rituximab have been commonly reported in the literature, a type I allergic reaction to rituximab after first lifetime exposure has never been reported.
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a severe hypersensitivity reaction to aspergillus species colonizing the airways of patients with asthma or cystic fibrosis. Biologics including anti-IgE and a...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common symptomatic primary immunodeficiency and has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Among non-infectious complications, an increased incidence o...
Considering its recent legalization in Canada, the health implications of Cannabis sativa exposure, including allergy, are coming to the forefront of medical study and interest. C. sativa allergy is an issue that...
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Tree squirrels (Sciuridae, Sciurini), in particular the highly diverse Neotropical lineages, are amongst the most rapidly diversifying branches of the mammal tree of life but also some of the least known. Negl...
Poecilogony, the presence of two developmental modes in the same animal species, is a rare phenomenon. Few cases of poecilogony have been suggested for marine invertebrates including molluscs and even less sto...
We hypothesize prebiotic evolution of self-replicating macro-molecules (Alberts, Molecular biology of the cell, 2015; Orgel, Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 39:99-123, 2004; Hud, Nat Commun 9:5171) favoured the cons...
The New World Tropics has experienced a dynamic landscape across evolutionary history and harbors a high diversity of flora and fauna. While there are some studies addressing diversification in Neotropical ver...
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Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Anna Maria Del Sol Driesen, Minerva A. Romero Arenas, Tania K. Arora, Andrew Tang, Valentine N. Nfonsam, Catherine L. O'Grady, Taylor S. Riall, Lilah F. Morris-Wiseman
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Aashish Rajesh, Malke Asaad, Monica Sridhar
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Jaclyn N. Portelli Tremont, Ian M. Kratzke, Michael L. Williford, Luigi Pascarella
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Adriana L. Meholick, Jonathan L. Jesneck, Ruchi M. Thanawala, Neal E. Seymour
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Tomas J. Saun, Teodor P. Grantcharov
Publication date: Available online 25 June 2020Source: Journal of Surgical EducationAuthor(s): Dr Hannah K. James, Mr Giles T.R. Pattison
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Publication date: Available online 26 June 2020Source: Medical Mycology Case ReportsAuthor(s): Aia Mohamed, Tidi Hassan, Marta Trzos-Grzybowska, Jubil Thomas, Aidan Quinn, Maire O'Sullivan, Auveen Griffin, Thomas R. Rogers, Alida Fe Talento
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Abstract Inflammatory bowel disease composed of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease is a disorder that may involve entire gastrointestinal tract. Its pathogenesis is mainly an immune-mediated inflammation. Recently, it has been indicated that bupropion possesses anti-inflammatory properties; hence, the objective of this experiment is the investigation of the anti-inflammatory influence of bupropion on colonic lesions that emerged...
Abstract Pneumonia is usually caused by a wide variety of pathogen infection. The underlying mechanism contributing to pneumonia remains elusive. Here, the role of microRNA-497-3p (miR-497-3p) was explored in bacterial pneumonia. The expression levels of miR-497-3p and procalcitonin (PCT) in patient serum were detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), respectively. The interaction...
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Publication date: Available online 27 June 2020Source: Annals of Diagnostic PathologyAuthor(s): Carrie M. Johnson, Richard A. Prayson
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ABSTRACT Background Somatosensory changes in Chinese temporomandibular disorders (TMD) arthralgia patients have not been fully studied by the latest technologies. Objective This study aims at assessing somatosensory changes in Chinese TMD arthralgia patients quantitatively. Methods Standardized quantitative sensory testing (QST) was performed on the pain sites and contralateral sites of 40 patients diagnosed with TMD arthralgia according to the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular...
Abstract Background Chewing exercises have been applied in clinical settings to improve the occlusal force and function of the masseter muscle in elderly individuals. However, the clinical relevance and effects of chewing exercises are unclear. Objectives This study aimed to investigate the effects of bilateral chewing exercises on the occlusal force and masseter muscle thickness in community‐dwelling Koreans aged 65 years. Methods Forty community‐dwelling healthy elderly individuals...
Abstract Background Dysphagia is a common problem in patients with a history of stroke. In Japan, a reclined position is commonly used as a compensatory technique to address this problem. Objective To evaluate the effect of reclined position on swallowing function in patients with stroke who had dysphagia Methods A retrospective analysis was carried out on the videofluoroscopic examination of swallowing (VF) of 4ml honey‐thick liquid swallows collected over nine years. Penetration‐aspiration...
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Abstract Objective The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the induction of peri-implantitis and of plaque accumulation on implants with different surface characteristics after the surgical treatment. Material and methods All mandibular premolars and first molars were extracted bilaterally in six dogs. After 3 months, two non-submerged...
Abstract Purpose The purpose of our study was to improve the minor asymmetries of fronto-orbital advancement (FOA) by introducing a simple model to guide the FOA in unicoronal synostosis which may help saving time and cost. Methods A retrospective analysis of 16 consecutive patients with unicoronal synostosis corrected by FOA guided by a guide model....
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Abstract Purpose of Review Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a musculoskeletal pain condition that stems from localized, taut regions of skeletal muscle and fascia, termed trigger points. The purpose of this comprehensive review is to provide updated information on prevalence, pathophysiology, and treatment modalities with a focus on interventional modalities in managing MPS. ...
Abstract Purpose of Review To discuss recent literature concerning the application of the biopsychosocial model in the management of concussion and post-concussion headache. Recent Findings Current research suggests that the biopsychosocial model is applicable to the concussion management process, particularly management of post-concussion...
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Will practice alone get you first chair in band? (Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash/)In 1993, Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson set out to find the secret to turning a typical teen into a violin virtuoso. His answer? Practice: 10,000 hours of it. The figure, a simple average of a few prodigies’ regimens, stuck; journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell even dubbed it “the magic number of greatness” in his 2008 book Outliers.The concept of ”practice makes perfect” has been drilled into the heads of ambitious...
Zoox has self-driving vehicles out on the streets in Arizona and Nevada. (Amazon /)You’ve probably seen many stories about how Amazon plans to deliver packages via drones at some point in the future. You may have even seen the outlandish plan for Amazon drone “hives” that could sit in city centers disbursing package-carrying crafts to every corner of a city. We haven’t heard as much about self-driving vehicles taking up Amazon delivery duties. Today, however, the company spent $1.2 billion to purchase...
Is the gender revolution finally hitting homes? (@canweallgo/Unsplash/)This story originally featured on Working Mother.Mari Di Chiara has loved having her husband around the past few months while the couple, like many parents, worked from home while taking care of their son. “He’s definitely taken on more than 50 percent of the childcare and household chores, so I can continue to bring in the same level of income I was when we had full-time childcare,” says the digital marketing consultant from...
Mangrove forests are excellent buffers against storms (Ravini/Pixabay/)Soon after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the coast of Texas in 2017, the tragically slow-moving, highly-destructive storm dumped a record-breaking amount of rain on Houston and southern Texas for days. Yet this could have been much worse for Clear Lake City, a community in southeastern Houston, which was protected by a swath of newly reclaimed wetland. Once an abandoned golf course, the area was in the process of being converted...
The price for that protest selfie might be your privacy. Unless you know how to take it. (Bhurnal / Unsplash/)Sometimes it feels like our phones know us better than we know ourselves. But when you’re protesting, it’s important that all the information your smartphone holds—about you and everyone you care about—doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.At a demonstration, your phone poses two significant risks just by being in your pocket. There’s the possibility of getting in a scuffle with the law, which...
The map can give you a broad view of your photo history. (Google Photos/)It’s easy to let a photo library get out of hand, especially if you shoot a lot. I’ve been recommending Google Photos to people for years in large part because of how useful the AI-powered search function is. If you’re looking for a picture of your dog from four years ago, your chances of finding it go up exponentially if you can simply search for it rather than scrolling through dozens or even hundreds of pages of old images...
Two super-Earth exoplanets orbit Gliese 887, 11 light years from Earth. (Mark Garlick/)Space telescopes like Kepler and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have made hunting for exoplanets an industrial pursuit. Their mechanical eyes watch thousands of stars simultaneously, and software efficiently sifts through the mountains of resulting data, highlighting only the most promising stellar flickers and wobbles for manual confirmation. The process has revolutionized planetary science like...
Love your plants. ( Markus Spiske via Unsplash/)There’s nothing more rewarding than eating a meal prepped with produce you’ve grown yourself, but it can seem daunting to start a garden when you live in an apartment, or in any place where outdoor space is limited. Luckily, ornamentals (flowers and blooms) and edibles (vegetables, herbs, and berries) can all be grown out of containers, which fit perfectly on patios, walkways, front yards, or by your garage.We’ve picked out some of our small space favorites.A...
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