conclusions although treatment of ec in the present study had considerable success in the short-term follow-up, it should be noted, due to the unknown of the exact cause, no specific treatment or protocol has still been identified. introduction exfoliative cheilitis (ec) is a rare chronic inflammatory condition affecting the vermillion border of the lips and characterized by excessive productio...

The purpose of the present thesis was threefold. First, to study perceptual and cognitive correlates to individual differences in speechreading performance. Second, to examine certain aspects of word-decoding/discrimination in the speechreading process. Third, to investigate whether hearing-impaired individuals compensate for their hearing loss by means of improved speechreading ability. The re...

F ew systemic diseases present with such a diversity of cardiopulmonary manifestations as hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), also known as Osler’s disease or Rendu–Osler–Weber syndrome. HHT is one of the most common inherited diseases, with a prevalence of one in 5,000–10,000, and has been linked to mutations in at least five different genes, including endoglin and activated-receptor...

LiPS 1 is a system for distributed computing using idle-cycles in heterogeneous networks of workstations. Especially data-and compute-intensive applications in the eld of cryptography and computer algebra have used the system. The system provides its user with the tuple space based generative communication paradigm of parallel computing as known from the coordination language Linda 2. In LiPS, ...

The aim of this chapter is to examine the possibility of extracting prosodic information from lip features. We used two measurement techniques enabling automatic lip feature extraction to evaluate the “lip pattern” of prosodic focus in French. Two corpora with Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) sentences were designed. Four focus conditions (S, V, O or neutral) were elicited in a natural dialogue situat...

For several years, we have been developing and studying computer-simulated models of brass instruments including the player's lips. We demonstrate here such a physical model. It is played in real-time with MIDI events. We present recent developments concerning both physical functioning and real-time controls. They result in great improvements of sound quality and musical expressivity. To better...

The case of a 27 year-old woman with typical manifestations of multiple endocrine neoplasia type II b is reported. Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid was detected on the occasion of an operation for goiter when she was 22 years of age. Constipation due to megacolon caused by intestinal neuroma had persisted since childhood. Neuroma of the tongue and lips, hypertrophic corneal nerve and Marfanoi...

Lip cancer is the most frequent malignant neoplasm of the oral cavity. The study reported herewith refers to the clinico-pathological features and surgical treatment of lip cancer. The most frequent tumour related to the lips is squamous cell carcinoma, with the lower lip more commonly involved than the upper lip. Typically, squamous cell carcinoma originates in the red lip, whereas basal cell ...