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Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

Our focus is on organizations that deploy and troubleshoot voice over IP (VoIP) networks. These groups may be professional services or pre-and post-sales engineering groups. A big problem with VoIP is the quality of calls, which is most affected by convergence with existing data network traffic. In most scenarios, the data network will require tuning in order to achieve acceptable quality for v...

Downscaling microwave remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) is an effective way to obtain spatial continuous SM with fine resolution for hydrological and agricultural applications on a regional scale. factors functions are two basic components of downscaling where the former particularly important in era big data. Based machine learning method, this study evaluated Land Surface Temperature (LST), ...

The success of Japanese manufacturing firms such as Honda and Toyota has renewed attention to the importance of cost reduction on existing products as a source of productivity growth. Using survey data and interviews, this paper explores the determinants of average-cost reduction for a sample of 207 automotive suppliers in the United States and Canada between 1988 and 1992. In particular, the p...

In this paper, a new model for adaptive e-learning based on learner's styles is presented. In the previous work, the dimensions of learner's styles given by Felder-Silverman did not consider some important issues of the learner himself. Here, new learner's parameters such as his social environment, health conditions, psychological and economical states are taken into account. Such parameters gr...

Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a voice disorder characterized by abnormal intermittent spasms of intralaryngeal muscles that result in voice breaks during speech. In the adductor variant of spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), spasms of the adductor muscles cause strangled voice breaks and a strained-strangled voice quality. In the abductor variant (ABSD), spasms of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle (PCA...

Background Voice problems caused by pathologies in vocal folds are well known. Some types of laryngeal pathologies have certain acoustic characteristics. Objective evaluation helps characterize the voice and voice problems providing supporting evidences, severity of disorders. It helps assess the response to the treatment and measures the outcomes. Objective The objective of the study is to det...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the efficacy of stretch-and-flow voice therapy as a primary physiological treatment for patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders. STUDY DESIGN Prospective case series. METHODS Participants with a diagnosis of primary muscle tension dysphonia or phonotraumatic lesions due to hyperfunctional vocal behaviors were included. Participants received stretch-and-flow v...