Vocal Fold Pathologies Among Undergraduate Singing Students In Three Different Genres.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the prevalence and incidence of vocal fold pathologies among undergraduate classical, musical theatre, and contemporary commercial music (CCM) students over two-time points.

Methods: This study is part of a longitudinal investigation. Videostroboscopic examinations were rated, with consensus among three of four expert blinded raters confirming the presence of pathology.

Mutual Information between Order Book Layers.

The order book is a list of all current buy or sell orders for a given financial security. The rise of electronic stock exchanges introduced a debate about the relevance of the information it encapsulates of the activity of traders. Here, we approach this topic from a theoretical perspective, estimating the amount of mutual information between order book layers, i.

Forecasting Quoted Depth With the Limit Order Book.

Liquidity plays a vital role in the financial markets, affecting a myriad of factors including stock prices, returns, and risk. In the stock market, liquidity is usually measured through the order book, which captures the orders placed by traders to buy and sell stocks at different price points. The introduction of electronic trading systems in recent years made the deeper layers of the order book more accessible to traders and thus of greater interest to researchers.

Volume Prediction With Neural Networks.

Changes in intraday trading volume are integral to any algorithmic trading strategy. Accordingly, forecasting the change in trading volume is paramount to better understanding the financial markets. This paper introduces a new method to forecast the log change in trading volume, leveraging the power of Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks in conjunction with Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Autoregressive (AR) models.

Global functioning of inpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and major depression.

A chart review was conducted to compare the social, occupational, and daily functioning of 17 inpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 17 with major depression, and 17 with schizophrenia. Current Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scores of patients with schizophrenia were significantly lower than those of patients with depression and with obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, on work performance, daily living skills, and past-year GAF scores, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and those with schizophrenia did not differ significantly, and both groups were significantly more impaired than patients with depression.