Recommendations of Pope Francis on Rhetoric by Marian Šuráb

“…The Pope reiterated the importance of the preacher to speak properly, use appropriate language, speak simply and clearly, be mindful of the vocal aspect of their speech, to use appropriate gestures and not to speak for  too long. …”
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Do goats recognise humans cross-modally? by Marianne A. Mason, Stuart Semple, Harry H. Marshall, Alan G. McElligott

“…Given that goats can combine visual and vocal cues to recognise one another, we investigated whether this cross-modal recognition extends to discriminating among familiar humans. …”
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Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma of the Larynx by Omar Rizvi, Tyson Nielsen, Shethal Bearelly

“…A four-month follow-up in May 2018 with flexible nasolaryngoscopy revealed a normal exam with fully mobile vocal folds bilaterally and no evidence of left false vocal fold submucosal mass. …”
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Exploring awareness of hearing loss and ear health in Jordanian adults. by Yazan Gammoh, Rama Alasir, Laila Qanawati

“…The main misconception was that a deaf-mute cannot speak because of defects in the vocal tract, with only 39.3% of the sample providing a correct response. …”
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The AMBU® Aura-i™ Laryngeal Mask and LMA Supreme™: A Randomized Trial of Clinical Performance and Fibreoptic Positioning in Unparalysed, Anaesthetised Patients by Novices by Zanahriah Yahaya, Wendy H. Teoh, Nora A. Dintan, Ravi Agrawal

“…There was no difference in ease of insertion or adjustment manoeuvres to aid ventilation. 90% of patients had good positioning of Aura-i on fibreoptic check, yielding a view of the vocal cords and epiglottis. In 5 patients (10%), the vocal cords were not seen, but ventilatory function was unaffected. …”
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Do sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate human emotional odors? by Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Solène Mousqué, Bruno Patris, Léa Lansade, Benoist Schaal, Alexandra Destrez

“…Abstract While sheep can detect and discriminate human emotions through visual and vocal cues, their reaction to human body odors remains unknown. …”
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma Originating from Adult Laryngeal Papillomatosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Vivian Narana Ribeiro El-Achkar, Andressa Duarte, Fabiano Pinto Saggioro, Francisco Veríssimo De Mello Filho, Jorge Esquiche León, Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva, Estela Kaminagakura

“…A 47-year-old male patient exhibiting hoarseness for 4 months presented an exophytic lesion in the right palatine tonsil and a digitiform-like lesion in the right vocal fold. The biopsy revealed a well-differentiated SCC in the vocal cord, which showed a transition zone with a squamous papillomatous lesion. …”
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Injection laryngoplasty during transoral laser microsurgery for early glottic cancer: a randomized controlled trial by Ayham Al Afif, Matthew H. Rigby, Colin MacKay, Timothy F. Brown, Timothy J. Phillips, Usman Khan, Jonathan R. B. Trites, Martin Corsten, S. Mark Taylor

“…Hyaluronic acid (HA) is commonly used in vocal cord augmentation. We investigated the impact of intra-operative injection laryngoplasty on voice outcomes in early glottic cancer. …”
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Bouches béantes et voix blanches dans le théâtre de Howard Barker by Vanasay Khamphommala

“…This paper explores the ambiguous treatment of vocality in the work of Howard Barker, whose theatre appears as an attempt to conjure up the voice of the dead. …”
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DER MUSIKALISCHE SPRACHE DES KOMPONISTEN PIERRE VILLETTE IN DEN „A CAPPELLA MOTETTEN HYMNE A LA VIERGE (OP. 24) UND PANIS ANGELICUS (OP. 80)“ by Miklós FEKETE

“… This paper presents first of all the importance of the 20th century French composer Pierre Villette, who’s instrumental, vocal-instrumental and choral works are relatively unknown even between musicians. …”
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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY by Răzvan METEA

“…Berceuses du chat by Igor Stravinsky for voice and clarinet trio - picollo clarinet, clarinet in A, bass clarinet - is a cycle of four vocal-instrumental miniatures that are part of the Russian period of the composer’s work, being completed in 1915-1916. …”
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GIUSEPPE VERDI IN VICTORIAN LONDON by Massimo ZICARI

“…A review of such periodicals as The Times, The Musical Times, The Athenaeum has drawn attention to two particular aspects of relevance; Verdi’s first operas impinged upon the model represented by Rossini’s light-spirited melodiousness and provoked a sense of general bewilderment; even when opera-goers began to show clear signs of appreciation and to crowd the theatres where Verdi’s operas were performed, critics continued to object to their value and to ascribe their success to the singers’ new vocal and dramatic skills. …”
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Analyse de la production de voyelles anglaises par des apprenants francophones, l’acquisition du contraste /ɪ/–/iː/ à la lumière des k-NN by Adrien Méli, Nicolas Ballier

“…From a longitudinal corpus of 12 speakers recorded at the university of Paris Diderot over two years, it is shown that in spite of gaps in the numbers of occurrences of tokens for each category, and in spite of the impossibility to use cross-validation, the k-NN method is a reliable means to account for the quality of learners’ vocalic realizations.…”
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Ortner's syndrome resulting from aortic pseudoaneurysm owing to intimal sarcoma of the aorta by Akio Shimoji, MD, Naoto Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Tatsuto Wakami, MD, Otohime Mori, MD, Kosuke Yoshizawa, MD, Nobushige Tamura, MD, PhD

“…A fiberoptic laryngoscopy revealed paralytic left vocal cord, indicating the left recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. …”
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Un « opéra radiophonique » : Ariane de Georges Delerue et Michel Polac by Jérôme Rossi

“…Conceived expressly for the radio, the opera begs several questions linked to its being a broadcast: the notion of purely “vocal characters”, the role of silence, and the link with and use of technology. …”
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The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race by Benoît Depardieu

“…Apart from the singular choice of O’Neill’s play and Gruenberg’s special interest in African American music and vocal traditions, this paper analyses the influence of the Harlem Renaissance period and the fantasmatics of race, present in both the play and the opera, albeit exacerbated in the latter through the scopic enjoyment of the body of the black Other.…”
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Lymphoma Presenting as Acute-Onset Dysphagia by Daniel B. Simmons, Andrew W. Bursaw

“…A 61-year-old man with recent Bell’s palsy developed acute vocal cord paralysis causing severe dysphagia. CSF analysis showed elevated protein and a normal cell count; contrast-enhanced MRI of the brain was normal. …”
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Creencias en torno a la manifestación del género en las voces españolas by Nuria Polo Cano, Marina González Sanz

“…El análisis descubre la existencia de estereotipos vocales inconscientes asociados con el género de los hablantes. …”
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Recriar o espaço de voz do poeta: a memória entre dois mundos by Joseilda de Sousa Diniz

“…Poet, singer, reciter, engraver, who, after a tragic illness in the vocal cords became a researcher and a writer, José Alves Sobrinho was one of the main nomad poetsingers on Northeast Brazil. …”
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The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The action is organized in the form of separate numbers-scenes, often almost unrelated to each other: dialogues of characters referring to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to Samuel Beckett’s absurdist drama Waiting for Godot, vocal and dance scenes, musical fragments, acrobatic tricks, performative methods of playing with requisites. …”
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