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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
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A Formant Modification Method for Improved ASR of Children’s Speech

, 2022
Differences in acoustic characteristics between children’s and adults’ speech degrade performance of automatic speech recognition systems when systems trained using adults’ speech are used to recognize children’s speech.
Alku, Paavo, Kurimo, Mikko, Kadiri, Sudarsana, Kathania, Hemant, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Paavo Alku, Mikko Kurimo, Hemant Kumar Kathania   +7 more
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A prosodic analysis of emotional expressions in Langkat Malay speech

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Emotional prosody is the paralinguistic elements of language that interact with verbal content to express emotion. It also demonstrates the complex relationship between voice expression and emotional experience, highlighting the depth to which humans can
Emmy Erwina
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Lower limb joints’ contributions to ballet turnout during unipodal and bipodal jumps in fifth position in pre-professional dancers [PDF]

PeerJ
Turnout, a large external rotation of the lower limb joints, is a key element of jumps and of other postures in classical ballet technique. Correct transverse-plane alignment of body segments in turnout is critical to reduce technical errors and injury ...
Luciana C. Manfrim, Maria Isabel V. Orselli, Bianca M. Portela, Matheus O. Moutinho, Paolo Caravaggi, Isabel C.N. Sacco   +5 more
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Retrospective Analysis of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions in Pediatric Patients With Mixed Chimerism After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk, Sebastian Michaelis, Michaela Döring, Thomas Eichholz, Ursula Holzer, Martin Ebinger, Tim Flaadt, Rupert Handgretinger, Peter Lang, Jan Frederic Weller, Markus Mezger   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wavelets for intonation modeling in HMM speech synthesis [PDF]

, 2013
The pitch contour in speech contains information about different linguistic units at several distinct temporal scales. At the finest level, the microprosodic cues are purely segmental in nature, whereas in the coarser time scales, lexical tones, word ...
Suni, Antti Santeri, Alku, Paavo, Vainio, Martti, Suni, Antti, Aalto, Daniel, Raitio, Tuomo   +5 more
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The relationship between acoustic indices of speech motor control variability and other measures of speech performance in dysarthria [PDF]

, 2012
Previous studies suggested that variability indices based on information extracted from the acoustic signal are potentially useful in assessing dysarthric speech.
Van Brenk, Frits, Lowit, Anja
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Pediatric Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Is Often Severe But Responsive to Siltuximab

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) is a potentially fatal immunologic disorder marked by widespread lymphadenopathy and inflammation. Siltuximab, an interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) inhibitor, is the only FDA‐approved treatment for adult patients with iMCD.
Bridget Austin, Sheila K. Pierson, Kelley C. Dacus, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Larissa Borys, Kayla McHugh, Abiola Irvine, Yoojin Jo, Adam Bagg, Mary Jo Lechowicz, Daisy Alapat, Amy Chadburn, Megan S. Lim, Gordan Srkalovic, Frits van Rhee, David C. Fajgenbaum, Joshua D. Brandstadter   +17 more
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Dysarthric speech classification from coded telephone speech using glottal features

, 2019
This paper proposes a new dysarthric speech classification method from coded telephone speech using glottal features. The proposed method utilizes glottal features, which are efficiently estimated from coded telephone speech using a recently proposed ...
Alku, Paavo, Nonavinakere Prabhakera, Narendra, Paavo Alku, N.P. Narendra   +3 more
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Language, Culture, and Cancer: Qualitative Insights Into Communication Disparities Among Spanish‐Speaking Caregivers of Children With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Latino children are projected to make up nearly one‐third of United States (US) children by 2060, and many of their caregivers speak Spanish. Prior survey research has documented communication difficulties for Spanish‐speaking caregivers of children with cancer, but contemporary qualitative data are limited.
Jenny Ruiz, Alejandra Curbelo‐Paz, Sonia Morales, Elizabeth Contreras, Amy Houtrow, Scott H. Maurer, Judy C. Chang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source