CPLP: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

CPLP: the first twenty-five years

The decision by Conjuntura Austral to dedicate a special issue to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is to be commended.The uniqueness of the organization justifies a timely review of a small sample of its activities Wheel Transport Kit to date.Created in 1996, the CPLP adopted three m

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Temporal variability of fundamental frequency contours

Intonation is one of the means of performing a speech style.Thus, observing pitch variation in an utterance may be a clue to identifying speech style.We design a cumulative slope (CS) index based upon the amount of pitch variation in a measured F0 contour and the duration of that contour.The more pitch changes there are and the greater their freque

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Implementation of triggered kilovoltage imaging for stereotactic radiotherapy of the spine for patients with spinal fixation hardware

Background and purpose: Mitigation of intrafraction motion (IM) is valuable in stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) radiotherapy where submillimeter accuracy is desired.The purpose of this ORG ALOE GEL study was to investigate the application of triggered kilovoltage (kV) imaging for spine SRT patients with hardware by correlating kV imaging with patien

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