Potential link between playing wind instruments and vocal tract disorders. A literature review

Introduction and purpose: Currently, we can distinguish three basic groups of instruments. These are wind instruments, percussion instruments, and plucked instruments. In the case of wind instruments, the source of sound is a vibrating column of air, which is created by blowing by the player. It is suspected that such vibration may cause specific vocal and laryngeal symptoms. The aim of the study was to present the current state of knowledge regarding the potential relation between playing wind instruments and vocal tract disorders. Material and methods: The article reviews 19 publications available on the PubMed and Google Scholar, Web of Science databases meeting assumed criteria: published as a full text, without time limit and conducted on humans. The studies were found using initially established searching strategies as well as subsequent manual searching in order not to miss adequate articles. State of knowledge: Laryngeal symptoms may be combined with vocal symptoms. The main raised vocal manifestations among instrumentalists are dysphonia, hoarseness, and altered voice quality. Comparing a group that used wind instruments with control, VHI-10 (Voice Handicap Index) and F0 (fundamental frequency) and HNR (harmonics-to-noise ratio) were higher while jitter % and shimmer %, which are perturbation parameters, were lower in the study group. The majority of studies has a limitation because they were performed in a limited number of volunteers. Conclusions: The symptoms of the vocal tract related to playing wind instruments are characterized by a low frequency of occurrence and intensity. However, further research is needed to assess this relation.

Comparative analysis of high-speed videolaryngoscopy images and sound data simultaneously acquired from rigid and flexible laryngoscope: a pilot study

High-Speed Videoendoscopy (HSV) is becoming a robust tool for the assessment of vocal fold vibration in laboratory investigation and clinical practice. We describe the first successful application of flexible High Speed Videoendoscopy with innovative laser light source conducted in clinical settings. The acquired image and simultaneously recorded audio data are compared to the results obtained by means of a rigid endoscope. We demonstrated that the HSV recordings with fiber-optic laryngoscope have enabled obtaining consistently bright, color images suitable for parametrization of vocal fold oscillation similarly as in the case of the HSV data obtained from a rigid laryngoscope. The comparison of period and amplitude perturbation parameters calculated on the basis of image and audio data acquired from flexible and rigid HSV recording objectively confirm that flexible High-Speed Videoendoscopy is a more suitable method for examination of natural phonation. The HSV-based measures generated from this kymographic analysis are arguably a superior representation of the vocal fold vibrations than the acoustic analysis because their quantification is independent of the vocal tract influences. This experimental study has several implications for further research in the field of HSV application in clinical assessment of glottal pathologies nature and its effect on vocal folds vibrations.

Oscillatory Flow of LDL-C and Blood Fluid through a Slanted Channel with Heat within the Sight of Magnetic Field

In this research, we investigated LDL-C and blood movement through a slanted channel with heat within the sight of magnetic field. In the evaluation, mathematical models for the LDL-C and blood stream and energy transfer were developed as partially coupled arrangement of partial differential equation (PDEs), the PDEs were scaled utilizing the dimensionless variables to dimensionless ordinary differential equation, they are further reduced to perturbed differential equations (ODEs) utilizing the perturbation parameters including the oscillatory term, where the non-homogenous equation and conditions are solved straightforwardly utilizing the technique for undetermined coefficient. The velocity and temperature profiles are gotten for certain overseeing boundaries included, and Mathematica codes were created utilizing simulate the impact of entering parameters on the profile. It is seen that the overseeing boundaries impacted that the entering pertinent parameters influences blood flow and it helps it controlling the LDL-C concentration, aiding treatment of atherosclerosis.

A novel sensitivity-based method for feature selection

Sensitivity analysis is a popular feature selection approach employed to identify the important features in a dataset. In sensitivity analysis, each input feature is perturbed one-at-a-time and the response of the machine learning model is examined to determine the feature's rank. Note that the existing perturbation techniques may lead to inaccurate feature ranking due to their sensitivity to perturbation parameters. This study proposes a novel approach that involves the perturbation of input features using a complex-step. The implementation of complex-step perturbation in the framework of deep neural networks as a feature selection method is provided in this paper, and its efficacy in determining important features for real-world datasets is demonstrated. Furthermore, the filter-based feature selection methods are employed, and the results obtained from the proposed method are compared. While the results obtained for the classification task indicated that the proposed method outperformed other feature ranking methods, in the case of the regression task, it was found to perform more or less similar to that of other feature ranking methods.

Viable intermediate inflation in the mimetic DBI model

We study the intermediate inflation in the mimetic Dirac–Born–Infeld model. By considering the scale factor as $$a=a_{0}\exp (bt^{\beta })$$ a = a 0 exp ( b t β ) , we show that in some ranges of the intermediate parameters b and $$\beta $$ β , the model is free of the ghost and gradient instabilities. We study the scalar spectral index, tensor spectral index, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio in this model and compare the results with Planck2018 TT, TE, EE + lowE + lensing + BAO + BK14 data at 68% and 95% CL. In this regard, we find some constraints on the intermediate parameters that lead to the observationally viable values of the perturbation parameters. We also seek the non-Gaussian features of the primordial perturbations in the equilateral configuration. By performing the numerical analysis on the nonlinearity parameter in this configuration, we show that the amplitude of the non-Gaussianity in the intermediate mimetic DBI model is predicted to be in the range $$-16.7<f^{equil}<-12.5$$ - 16.7 < f equil < - 12.5 . We show that, with $$0<b\le 10$$ 0 < b ≤ 10 and $$0.345<\beta <0.387$$ 0.345 < β < 0.387 , we have an instabilities-free intermediate mimetic DBI model that gives the observationally viable perturbation and non-Gaussianity parameters.

RECOGNITION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE SPATIAL IRREGULARITIES IONOSPHERE FOR FEBRUARY – MARCH 2010 OVER THE SEISMIC ZONES OF SOUTH AMERICA BY RADIOPHYSICAL METHODS

The ionospheric disturbances detected during large-scale earthquakes occurred of early 2010 in South America on the base the analysis of data GPS-observations are considered. The complex analysis of the ground-based stations data integrated into the international IGS and UNAVCO networks was carried out the selected region. Extensive spatial-time measurements statistics of more than 10 million phase data were processed. Stable estimates of distributions are obtained for ionospheric plasma perturbation parameters. The relative contribution of acoustic-gravity waves to the ionospheric disturbances formation during the large earthquakes preparation is investigated.

Numerical Solution of Singularly Perturbed Two Parameter Problems using Exponential Splines

In this paper, we have studied a method based on exponential splines for numerical solution of singularly perturbed two parameter boundary value problems. The boundary value problem is solved on a Shishkin mesh by using exponential splines. Numerical results are tabulated for different values of the perturbation parameters. From the numerical results, it is found that the method approximates the exact solution very well.

On some applications of vibrational resonance on noisy image perception: the role of the perturbation parameters

In this paper, we first propose a brief overview of nonlinear resonance applications in the context of image processing. Next, we introduce a threshold detector based on these resonance properties to investigate the perception of subthreshold noisy images. By considering a random perturbation, we revisit the well-known stochastic resonance (SR) detector whose best performances are achieved when the noise intensity is tuned to an optimal value. We then introduce a vibrational resonance detector by replacing the noisy perturbation with a spatial high-frequency signal. To enhance the image perception through this detector, it is shown that the noise level of the input images must be lower than the optimal noise value of the SR-based detector. Under these conditions, considering the same noise level for both detectors, we establish that the vibrational resonance (VR)-based detector significantly outperforms the SR-based detector in terms of image perception. Moreover, we show that whatever the perturbation amplitude, the best perception through the VR detector is ensured when the perturbation frequency exceeds the image size. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Vibrational and stochastic resonance in driven nonlinear systems (part 2)’.

Breather degeneration and lump superposition for the (3 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation

This paper is devoted to the study of a (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized nonlinear evolution equation for the shallow-water waves. The breather solutions with different structures are obtained based on the bilinear form with perturbation parameters. Some new lump solitons are found in the process of studying the degradation behavior of breather solutions, and we also study general lump soliton, lumpoff solution and superposition phenomenon between lump soliton and breather solution. Besides, some theorems about the superposition between lump soliton and [Formula: see text]-soliton ([Formula: see text] is a nonnegative integer) are given. Some examples, including lump-[Formula: see text]-exponential type, lump-[Formula: see text]-logarithmic type, higher-order lump-type [Formula: see text]-soliton, are given to illustrate the correctness of the theorems and corollaries described. Finally, some novel nonlinear phenomena, such as emergence of lump soliton, degeneration of breathers, fission and fusion of lumpoff, superposition of lump-[Formula: see text]-solitons, etc., are analyzed and simulated.