Background: Repeated efforts by researchers to impose voice changes by laryngeal surface electrical stimulation (SES) have come to no avail. This present pre-experimental study employed a novel method for SES application so as to evoke the motor potential of the internal superior laryngeal nerve (ISLN) and create voice changes.Methods: Thirty-two normal individuals (22 females and 10 males) par...

with the aim of identifying failure mechanism in oriented strand boards, failure behavior of wood strands under tensile load was investigated using acoustic emission technique. resinated and unresinated strands were arranged at top, middle and bottom section of the board before pressing. tensile and acoustic emission tests were performed simultaneously on treated and control samples. using tens...

acoustic neuromas (an) are schwann cell-derived tumors that commonly arise from the vestibular portion of the eighth cranial nerve also known as vestibular schwannoma(vs) causes unilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo and unsteadiness. in many cases, the tumor size may remain unchanged for many years following diagnosis, which is typically made by mri. in the majority of cases the tumor is s...

diesel exhaust particles are a complex mixture of thousands of gases and fine substances that contain more than 40 different environmental contaminants. being exposed to these exhaust particles (called soot) can cause lung damage and respiratory problems. diesel particulate filters are used in many countries for mobile sources as a legal obligation to decrease harmful effect of these fine parti...

Acoustic emission and transient IR thermography have been used to study and compare the performance of carbon/epoxy laminates, subjected to two different indentation procedures in a three-point flexural rig, one with a supporting steel plate and the other in a free bending mode. The study of 2-D localisation plots and cumulative counts vs. time curves allowed clarifying, with the essential supp...

Speech recognition technology has been widely used. Considering a training cost of an acoustic model, it is beneficial to reuse pre-existing acoustic models for making a suitable one for various apparatus and application. However, a complex acoustic model for high CPU power does not work for low CPU power. And a simple model for fast-processing-demanded application does not work well for high-p...