The present investigation on Effect of organic and inorganic sources nutrients flowering hybrid gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii B.) cv. Shimmer in open field condition was conducted at Biotechnology cum Tissue Culture Centre, OUAT Bhubaneswar during 2015-16 2016-17. aim the study to find out suitable for cut flower production condition. There were eight treatment combinations consisting 100% recomme...

Abstract Background Vocal-fold augmentation is a continuously developing treatment modality for glottic insufficiency. Patients with insufficiency attend the phoniatrics clinics increasing frequency. Glottic may be due to vocal-fold paralysis, paresis, atrophy, sulcus vocalis, scarring, and deficiency after laryngeal surgery. A variety of materials exist injection augmentation. This follow-up s...

BACKGROUND Supracricoid partial laryngectomy (SCPL) results in laryngeal preservation in more than 95% of patients with T2 glottic carcinoma. Postsurgical glottic function is characterized by an absence of vocal cords, and phonation quality is a key post-SCPL quality-of-life factor. OBJECTIVE This investigation was designed to enhance post-SCPL vocal function, study anatomic function of the p...

INTRODUCTION A large number of people around the world struggle daily to become free of their addiction to illegal psychoactive substances. In order to create an atmosphere of improved supervision, established communication and improved quality of life for drug addicts, centers have been set up to provide methadone as a substitute. OBJECTIVE The aim of the research was to assess the vocal fea...

OBJECTIVES Endoscopic laryngopharyngeal surgery (ELPS) is a minimally invasive transoral surgery that was developed to treat superficial larygo-pharyngeal cancer, in which a mucosal lesion is resected transorally while preserving deeper structures by subepithelial injection. The purpose of this retrospective study is to evaluate voice outcome in patients who underwent ELPS for superficial hypop...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the validity of cepstral analyses against other conventional acoustic measures of voice quality in determining the perceptual impression in different motor speech disorders-hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria, and speech tasks-prolonged vowels and connected speech. METHODS Prolonged vowel productions and connected speech samples (reading passages and monologues) from 4...

Objective Parkinson's disease (PD), caused by basal ganglia dysfunction, is associated with motor disturbances including dysarthria. Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, a preferred treatment targeting basal ganglia function, improves features of the motor disorder, but has uncertain effects on speech.We studied speech during contrasting stimulation states to reveal subcortical effects on vo...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of two speech therapy interventions, vocal warm-up and breathing training, focusing on teachers' voice quality.METHODS A single-blind, randomized, parallel clinical trial was conducted. The research included 31 20 to 60-year old teachers from a public school in Salvador, BA, Northeasatern Brazil, with minimum workloads of 20 hours a week, who have or have ...

BACKGROUND Radiological scoring methods such as colon transit time (CTT) have been widely used for the assessment of bowel motility. However, these radiograph-based methods need cumbersome radiological instruments and their frequent exposure to radiation. Therefore, a non-invasive estimation algorithm of bowel motility, based on a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) model of bowel sounds (BS...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The increasing number of endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approaches (EETSA) has resulted in several sinonasal complications, including voice changes. Here, we compared preoperative and postoperative voice changes according to age. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records. Patients were divided into the following three groups according to age: ≤ 30 yea...