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J Voice
January 2025
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Electronic address:
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze cepstral changes following intensive voice-focused treatment in Spanish speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD). A secondary aim of the study was to explore the relationship between cepstral values across time and perceptual data across speech subsystems.
Study Design/methods: This study followed a one-group pretest-post test design.
J Acoust Soc Am
January 2025
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1455, USA.
Voice quality serves as a rich source of information about speakers, providing listeners with impressions of identity, emotional state, age, sex, reproductive fitness, and other biologically and socially salient characteristics. Understanding how this information is transmitted, accessed, and exploited requires knowledge of the psychoacoustic dimensions along which voices vary, an area that remains largely unexplored. Recent studies of English speakers have shown that two factors related to speaker size and arousal consistently emerge as the most important determinants of quality, regardless of who is speaking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Geriatr Oncol
January 2025
Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612, United States of America; Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute, 1 Tampa General Circle Tampa, FL 33606-3571, United States of America.
Introduction: Older adults are often prescribed oral anticancer agents (OAAs). Technology-based interventions may offer medication and symptom support. We aimed to evaluate technology ownership, use, and preferred design features of a supportive web-based program using a multimethod design utilizing surveys and semi-structured interviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoc Sci Med
December 2024
Boston University, Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Global Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. Electronic address:
Social media can be a platform to spread misinformation and reinforce potentially harmful norms in the interest of commercial actors. There are norms related to obesity that commercial actors promote such as "obesity is an individual problem" and the "pharmaceuticalization of obesity". In this study, we assess the quality of information about semaglutide, and the descriptive norms related to its use as levers of commercial practices in social media.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol
February 2025
Research Chair of Voice, Swallowing, and Communication Disorders, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine King Saud University Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
Objectives: This study aimed to translate and validate the Cough Severity Index (CSI) into Arabic (A-CSI) and to evaluate its validity and reliability among patients with chronic cough.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive questionnaire-based validation study was conducted at two tertiary hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between December 2023 and August 2024. The CSI was translated from English into Arabic using the forward-backward method.
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