A5004024573- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language Development and Disorders
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Employee Welfare and Language Studies
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Topic Modeling
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2015-2024
Prince of Wales Hospital
2020-2023
Google (United States)
2022
The University of Sydney
2017-2018
University of Hong Kong
2018
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
2017
Glasgow Life
2005
University of Michigan
1958
This study reports selective effects on the mating pattern of female rat partial destruction hypothalamus. Independent neural control ovarian cycle and response are demonstrated. Both depressed augmented sexual activity reported.
This paper describes the application of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to objective assessment voice and disorders. Acoustical analysis has long been considered a promising approach non-invasive people. In past types amount materials used for acoustical were very limited. With ASR technology, we are able perform linguistic analyses with large natural from impaired speakers. The present study is focused on Cantonese, which major Chinese dialect. Two representative...
The speech of some children does not follow a typical normalization trajectory, and they develop sound disorders (SSD). This study investigated predictive correlates in who were at risk SSD.A prospective population cohort 845 Cantonese-speaking preschoolers was conducted over 2.5 years to examine (a) resolved nonadult realizations consonants (normalized) (b) those had persisting difficulties (did normalize). From these 845, sample 82 participants characterized as having SSD (1.25 SDs below...
There is currently an urgent need for effective solutions against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at many well-known Web sites. Because of increased sophistication and severity these attacks, the system administrator a victim site needs to quickly accurately identify probable attackers eliminate attack traffic. Our work based on probabilistic marking algorithm in which graph can be constructed by site. We extend basic concept such that one efficiently deduce intensity...
To examine if angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor reduces the risk of pneumonia in older patients on tube-feeding because dysphagia from cerebrovascular diseases.Randomized placebo-controlled trial.Acute and subacute geriatrics units, speech therapists' clinic, nursing home.Older for >2 weeks secondary to diseases.Participants were randomized lisinopril 2.5 mg or placebo once daily 26 weeks.Participants followed up at 12 26. The primary outcome was incidence rate as determined by...
Traditionally acoustical assessment of voice disorder relies on simple and homogeneous speech samples like sustained vowels. Continuous is believed to be more representative the daily function preferable in clinical practice. This paper describes an attempt automating with continuous utterances. The proposed system makes use a novel type features that are derived from phone posterior probabilities outputted by deep neural network based automatic recognition (ASR) system. These ASR-based...
Objective: This study was conducted to determine whether carrying a singleton male fetus increases the risk of preterm birth (PTB) in Chinese women. Methods: A retrospective cohort on women with pregnancies and delivered our hospital. Maternal characteristics, pregnancy outcome, incidence PTB, were compared between versus female fetus. The independent effect PTB examined multiple logistic regression analysis adjusting for other confounding factors identified. Results: There significant...
English-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are less capable of using prosodic cues such as intonation for irony comprehension. Prosodic cues, in particular intonation, Cantonese relatively restricted while sentence-final particles (SFPs) may be used this pragmatic function. This study investigated the use and SFPs comprehension Cantonese-speaking without ASD. Thirteen ASD (8;3–12;9) were language-matched 13 typically developing (TD) peers. By manipulating SFPs, 16 stories...
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture treatment for dysphagia as a complication stroke. Methods Design. This is multicenter, pragmatic, nonrandomized, self-controlled clinical trial. A total 39 patients were recruited from several Chinese medicine outpatient clinics hospital-affiliated speech therapy in Hong Kong. 26 completed all 24 sessions within two months, only 12 them used self-control. For self-control group, retrospective data was taken electronic patient records...
Abstract Background To investigate a novel velopharyngeal squeeze maneuver (VPSM) and endoscopic pharyngeal contraction grade (EPCG) scale for the evaluation of motor function. Methods During examination 77 post‐irradiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients control subjects, VPSM was rated lateral wall movement graded with EPCG during swallowing. Pharyngeal constriction ratio (PCR) measured by videofluoroscopy used correlation. Results showed almost perfect intra‐rater inter‐rater reliability...
Exercise-based swallowing training (EBST) and transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (TNMES) are common modalities used to treat late dysphagia after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). We aimed investigate compare the efficacies of EBST TNMES as proactive treatments administered early radiotherapy.
Speaking rhythmically, also known as syllable-timed speech (STS), has been for centuries to be a fluency-inducing condition people who stutter. Cantonese is tonal language and it shown that, of all languages, the most rhythmic (Mok, 2009). However, not if STS reduces stuttering in does English. This first study investigate effects on language. Nineteen native Cantonese-speaking adults stutter were engaged conversational tasks under two conditions: one their usual speaking style using STS....
Abstract Background: Multilingualism can bring about various positive outcomes to typically developing children. Its effect on children with language difficulties is not yet clear. Aim: The aim of this study was examine the effects multilingual learning as a medium instruction (MOI) first (L1) acquisition disorders (LD). Methods & Procedures: Nineteen Cantonese‐speaking students aged 5;8–6;8 who were diagnosed LD recruited from school that used Putonghua (an alternative Chinese dialect)...
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on vocal functions in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma following radiation therapy.Prospective, randomized controlled trial.One hundred forty newly treated NPC were recruited and into NMES or traditional swallowing exercise (TE) group. Participants received intensive therapy followed up until 12 months postrandomization. Fifty-seven participants completed treatment all follow-up assessments. The...
Objective To compare functional and cost‐effectiveness of awake transnasal laser assisted‐surgery versus microlaryngeal surgery for benign laryngeal lesions. Methods This was a prospective non‐inferiority randomized controlled trial conducted from May 2021 to December 2022 at two tertiary referral hospitals in Hong Kong. Patients were block‐randomized receive either laser‐assisted or surgery, with post‐operative follow‐up multidisciplinary voice clinic 1‐year. Primary outcome Voice Handicap...
Cantonese is a tone language, in which the variation of fundamental frequency contour syllable can change meaning. There are six different lexical tones Cantonese. While research with Western languages has shown an association between stuttering and syllabic stress, nothing known about whether speakers associated one or more tones. Such been reported conversational speech Mandarin, also but varies markedly from Twenty-four native Cantonese-speaking adults who stutter participated this study,...
This is the first study to investigate behavioral nature (topography) of stuttering in Cantonese. Cantonese, a Sino-Tibetan language, both tonal and syllable-timed. Previous studies topography have mainly been Western languages, which are stress-timed.Conversational speech samples were collected from 24 native Cantonese-speaking adults who stuttered. Six consecutive moments each participant analyzed using Lidcombe data language (LBDL). A complexity analysis based on LBDL was developed...