Improving detection of Parkinson’s disease with acoustic feature optimization using particle swarm optimization and machine learning by Elmoundher Hadjaidji, Mohamed Cherif Amara Korba, Khaled Khelil

“…Parkinson’s disease (PD), characterized by motor impairments and tremors, also presents early-stage vocal abnormalities that hold diagnostic potential. …”
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Gestural communication in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) by Felipe Villa-Larenas, Miquel Llorente, Katja Liebal, Federica Amici

“…Repertoire size did not vary with age, but the probability of accounting for recipients’ attentional state was higher for older monkeys than for younger ones, especially for gestures in the visual modality. Using vocalizations right before the gesture increased the probability of gesturing towards attentive recipients and of receiving a response, although age had no effect on the probability of gestures being responded. …”
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Le Falstaff de Manfredo Maggioni et Michael Balfe : façonner un opéra italien pour le public anglais by Céline Frigau

“…Not only is it sung in Italian but it also respects the structural codes, vocal and scenic practices which make it recognizable as an opera buffa on the aesthetic stage of the time, and above all on the English stage. …”
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Música para el templo del convento de San Agustín de Lima. El maestro de capilla fray Cipriano Aguilar by César Humberto Vega Zavala

“…Estas obras presentan evidencias de que fray Cipriano Aguilar asimiló el estilo musical de Joseph Haydn, pero sujeto a la forma en que dicha estética se implantó en España durante los últimos veinte años del siglo XVIII, en la cual se empleó la orquesta como acompañamiento para la música vocal litúrgica. En este contexto, el espacio conventual se convirtió en un centro para la formación de músicos, cantantes e instrumentistas limeños. …”
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“Enfoncer une porte ouverte”. Madame Bovary sounds as music by Roberto Doati

“…Working within this framework I animate the text with sound-objects whose source is not necessarily heard, as I replace the vocal spectrum - i.e. the timbre – with that of the sounds mentioned in the book, while the voice amplitude envelope will still determine the rhythm. …”
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SPEECH PRODUCTION IN ENGLISH BY STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT: AN ACOUSTIC PHONETIC APPROACH by Diana Anggraeni, Donal Fernado Lubis

“…As conclusion, students with hearing impairment both partial and total deafness produced their speech based on other vocal tracts due to their disability, and certain treatment in speech production should be suggested especially the phonemes involving internal articulators, including alveolar, velar, post-alveolar and nasal sounds. …”
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Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds by Jakub Szymkowiak

“…Abstract Prey species commonly assess predation risk based on acoustic signals, such as predator vocalizations or heterospecific alarm calls. The resulting risk-sensitive decision-making affects not only the behavior and life-history of individual prey, but also has far-reaching ecological consequences for population, community, and ecosystem dynamics. …”
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Setting the tone: crossmodal emotional face-voice combinations in continuous flash suppression by Ulrich W. D. Müller, Antje B. M. Gerdes, Georg W. Alpers

“…Faces were presented either unimodally or paired with non-linguistic vocalizations (fearful, happy, neutral). Thirty-six healthy participants were asked to respond as soon as the faces reached conscious awareness. …”
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m_AutNet–A Framework for Personalized Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Autistic Children by Asha Kurian, Shikha Tripathi

“…This paper looks at developing a personalized multimodal neural framework, m_AutNet, that can effectively identify the emotions of autistic children by combining data from their facial and vocal expression modalities. The proposed network includes a personalized facial feature extraction module (that incorporates a distance metric to cluster embeddings with similar labels together and marginalizes dissimilar embeddings), and an audio modality CNN feature extractor that works on speech expression samples of autistic children. …”
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Paving the Way for Speech: Voice-Training-Induced Plasticity in Chronic Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech—Three Single Cases by Monika Jungblut, Walter Huber, Christiane Mais, Ralph Schnitker

“…Likewise, pre- and posttreatment assessments of patients’ vocal rhythm production, language, and speech motor performance yielded significant improvements for all patients. …”
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Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Presenting with Oculomotor Ophthalmoplegia and Distal Myopathy by Jessica Mani Penny Tevaraj, Evelyn Tai Li Min, Raja Azmi Mohd Noor, Azhany Yaakub, Wan Hazabbah Wan Hitam

“…She also had palsy of the right vocal cord, as well as the third and eighth nerve. …”
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Detection of pharyngeal perforation during fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in a person with cervical spinal cord injury in the intensive care unit: a case report by Min Soo Choi, Sang Hun Han, Yong Beom Shin, Myung Hun Jang

“…In addition, FEES allows the identification of anatomical abnormalities of the oropharynx and abnormalities of vocal cord. Thus, it is recommended to do FEES to check anatomical abnormalities as well as dysphagia in patients in the intensive care unit.…”
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Case report: Dysphonia associated with high-dose cytarabine therapy by Ling Ma, Niya Huang, Haixi Zhang, Jia Liu, Zhiqing Zhang

“…To rule out other potential causes, a thorough examination and detailed medical history review were conducted, excluding factors such as vocal abuse, infection, effects of other medications, and underlying diseases as contributors to the dysphonia. …”
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Embracing and Rejecting the Ruskinian Heritage in Wilde’s Aesthetic Theories by Carole Delhorme

“…On the other hand, the link between art and morals in his scheme of thought makes him one of the strongest and most vocal opponents to the doctrine of art for art’s sake. …”
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PHONOTACTIC AND PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN KEMPO AND S>H KOLANG SUBDIALECTS by Salahuddin Salahuddin, Daru Winarti

“…The two subdialects also have a relatively similar inventory of vocal phonemes: 6 vowel phonemes. Diphthongs are almost identical between the two subdialects, 7 diphthongs which only appear in mono-syllable words and are located at the end of words. …”
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Traduzindo tolo: “eu canto o que ela cantou que ele disse que...” ou “quando cantamos somos todas hipermulheres” by Bruna Franchetto

“…Ejemplos extraídos de un vasto repertorio, internamente complejo, de casi 400 canto recogidos entre los Kuikuro, ilustran el trabajo de transcripción y de traducción posible, aunque arduo, de esta arte vocal y verbal amerindia.…”
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Explizite und implizite Regeln der modalen Solo-Improvisation in iranischer Musik. Eine vergleichende Analyse by Davoud Tavousi

“…The study is based on a comparative analysis of nine performances (five vocal and four instrumental) of a gūše called Gharache covering a broad spectrum of possibilities within a certain modal area. …”
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TROIS POÈMES DE STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ: A DEBUSSY-RAVEL COMPARISON by Attila FODOR

“…Thus, the quasi-independent vocal line, with a pronounced recitative character is carried by an almost autonomous musical accompaniment, which oscillates between figurative and expressive states. …”
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Cultivating Well-being, Community Cohesion, and Sense of Purpose through African Contemplative Practices by Lucy Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green

“…Participants identified how the synchronized movements, vocalization, and multisensory listening enabled experiences of self-transcendence, connection, and social cohesion, eliciting emotions of peacefulness, harmony, and joy. …”
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Comparing the productive vocabularies of grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and young children by Tereza Roubalová, Lucie Jarůšková, Kateřina Chládková, Jitka Lindová

“…Abstract Due to their outstanding ability of vocal imitation, parrots are often kept as pets. …”
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