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Effect of Surgical Mask on Setup Error in Head and Neck Radiotherapy

open access: yesTechnology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 2020
Purpose: With the widespread prevalence of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), cancer patients are suggested to wear a surgical mask during radiation treatment.
Yi Ding PhD   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voice Differences When Wearing and Not Wearing a Surgical Mask [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Objective: The purpose of our study was to investigate the impact of surgical mask on some vocal parameters such as F0, vocal intensity, jitter, shimmer and harmonics-to-noise ratio in order to understand how surgical mask can affect voice and verbal ...
Fiorella, Maria Luisa   +3 more
core   +1 more source

An empirical and theoretical investigation into the psychological effects of wearing a mask [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
A review of the literature shows that the wearing of a mask has been hypothesised to bring about four main psychological effects: disinhibition, transformation, facilitation of the expression of aspects of the wearer’s Self, and various psycho-somatic ...
Cooper, Mick
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A Modified Surgical Face Mask to Improve Protection and Wearing Comfort

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Wearing face masks is essential for reducing infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, ordinary surgical face masks can provide only moderate protection.
Tengfei (Tim) Zhang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative Fit Test of a 3D Printed Frame Fitted Over a Surgical Mask: An Alternative Option to N95 Respirator

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dentistry, 2022
Background. COVID-19 has spread worldwide and caused severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to numerous dead cases. However, with the new COVID-19 outbreaks, there is a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) especially ...
Suchada Kongkiatkamon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness of surgical mask, N-95 respirator, hand-hygiene and surgical mask with hand hygiene in the prevention of COVID-19: Cost effectiveness analysis from Indian context

open access: yesClinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021
Introduction: In the absence of specific treatment, preventive strategies are of paramount importance in management of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic. We estimated cost-effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions such as hand-hygiene,
Bhavani Shankara Bagepally   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of face mask on speech production and its implication for forensic speaker identification-A cross-linguistic study

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
This study aims to understand the effects of face mask on speech production between Mandarin Chinese and English, and on the automatic classification of mask/no mask speech and individual speakers. A cross-linguistic study on mask speech between Mandarin
Puyang Geng   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Investigation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) residues and retention rates in two different face masks used during the COVID-19 lockdown period

open access: yesHygiene and Environmental Health Advances, 2022
This study aimed to determine the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations in the ambient air and in face masks of different configurations and to reveal how much masks protect from cancer risk. The total concentrations of 43 PCB congeners (∑43PCBs)
Mehmet Ferhat Sari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concrete Repair Using Fiber from Surgical Mask [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In this new Norma, surgical mask was a thing that important to wear in public. Because of the frequent use of surgical mask, the huge of waste of surgical mask were disposed per day.
Mazlan, Muhamad Arif Shafiq   +1 more
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The application of a surgical face mask over different oxygen delivery devices; a crossover study of measured end-tidal oxygen concentrations

open access: yesBMC Anesthesiology, 2022
Background The application of a surgical face mask over oxygen delivery devices is now a widespread recommendation in the setting of the Coronavirus disease pandemic. This addition is designed to reduce droplet spread, but this also changes the nature of
Kate Brown-Beresford   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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