Normal voicing

These men in the Statler bar — their views were exceptional, maybe. But how many normal voices were heard in Washington How many others, fearing the evil prospect, would greet the future world with solutions that stood upon the worst features of an equally evil past Fear may come to the mind long before physical danger. Footsteps may march up and down the hallway time and again before the knock comes on the door. Then a sudden terror, as if your mind, loosely planted, has been uprooted before it can reach down to the soil or up to the sunlight... . ... 

Wind power has been slowed by public opposition. In 2002, a citizen s group in Prince Edward County, Ontario, vetoed a small windfarm project on the coast of Lake Ontario near Hillier. They proposed that the 22 proposed wind turbines would be noisy, kill birds and harm the neighborhood by being too visible. These are common complaints about wind-farms, but at a distance of about 200 meters, the sound of a windfarm is faint. At closer distances the noise is similar to the sound of an airplane s engine from inside the cabin. Even under the spinning blades it is possible to converse in a normal voice. One Dutch study showed that a small wind-farm is less harmful to birds than 1-kilometer of road or powerlines. 

Figure 4. The maximum group size for a conversation in which all members are able to clearly discriminate speech sounds spoken at normal voice levels by all speakers, plotted against speech interference levels. The lower line (for d = 100cm) is drawn by extrapolation from the other two lines, d is the inter-individual distance measured nose-to-nose between adjacent individuals on the circumference of the circle. Source redrawn from Cohen 1971 (Fig. 7.1)...

Although the replacement filter respirator does an excellent job of dust removal when properly fitted, some personal discomforts may arise, including increased breathing resistance, aggravated by dust loading on the filter, facial irritation caused by the face seal, inference with normal voice communication, and interference with eye glasses or goggles. 

Lungs This variable is responsible for producing the airflow that sets the vocal folds into vibration during phonation. This variable can normally value between -0.5 and +1.5. The value -0.5 represents the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled by force and the value +1.5 represents the maximum amount of air that can be inhaled. A typical exhalation values 0.0 and a typical inhalation would not exceed 0.2 for normal voicing. 

Inhaled steroids (commonly used are beclomethasone, budesonide, triamcinolone, fluticasone, flunisolide) appear to attenuate the inflammatory response, to reduce bronchial hyperreactivity, to decrease exacerbations and to improve health status they may also reduce the risk of myocar dial infar ction, but they do not modify the longterm decline in lung function. Whether- steroids affect mortality remains unclear. Many patients appear to be resistant to steroids and large, long-term trials have shown only limited effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroid ther apy. Certainly, the benefit from steroids is smaller in COPD than in asthma. Topical side-effects of inhaled steroids are oropharyngeal candidiasis and hoarse voice. At the normal doses systemic side-effects of inhaled steroids have not been firmly established. The current recommendation is that the addition of inhaled gluco-coiticosteroids to bronchodilator treatment is appropriate for patients with severe to veiy sever e COPD. 

The telephone is still one of the primary means of communication for clinical trial personnel. The telephone is used for both voice and digital communications. Voice communication is the normal person-to-person telephone call. Data communication with the telephone is the transmission of digital data from one location to another. Various software packages have been developed for this purpose. Using a voice modem connected to a telephone, a user on a local computer can connect to another remote computer that has a modem connected to a telephone and download or upload data files. Local and remote users can also communicate with text messages. The local computer operator can even control the remote computer for trouble-shooting or system update. 

Jones MS, Pontzer JF, DelCurto B, Badgett CA, Sather MR. Integrating interactive voice response system and web based systems to support home international normalization ratio testing. Clin Trials 2005 2 S73. 

The first three characteristics are considered to be the positive symptoms of the disorder. The fourth are described as negative symptoms although they can be divided into true negative symptoms, i.e. diminished emotions and speech and reactive ones, i.e. social apathy and withdrawal brought on by the positive symptoms. Schizophrenics do not have a split personality. Normally their reaction to the positive symptoms is to withdraw quietly but occasionally they will react violently to the voices they hear and shout at them. 

The respiratory system is divided into two areas the upper and the lower respiratory system. The upper respiratory system is composed of the nose, sinuses, mouth, pharynx (section between the mouth and esophagus), larynx (the voice box), and the trachea or windpipe. The lower respiratory system is composed of the lungs and its smaller structures, including the bronchi and the alveoli. The bronchial tubes carry fresh air from the trachea through a series of branching tubes to the alveoli. The alveoli are small blind air sacs where the gas exchange with the blood occurs. An estimated 300 million alveoli are found in a normal lung. These alveoli contribute a total surface area of approximately 70 m2. Small capillaries found in the walls of the alveoli transport the blood an estimated 100 ml of blood is in the capillaries at any moment. 

With respect to "normality," he voices this rather mild, though definite, protest ... 

I had a couple of minutes to present my side of the story, but the film seemed to be speeded up a bit, making my voice come out several notes higher than normal. I had the paranoid feeling that the speed-up might be a subtle attempt to make me sound less manly, but perhaps it was just a way to compress available time. 

The narration had become personified into the inner voice that attends the mushroom trance. With it I began a discussion of the view of the watery planet and the technology such views implied. I wondered about the technology of star-travel and remote imaging. I asked the mushroom whether, for all the extravagant images it is able to bestow, could it produce any effect in the normal continuum ... 

An interesting effect caused by breathing hehum is the change in one s voice when speaking. Because hehum is less dense than air, the vocal cords produce sounds at a higher pitch than normal and the speaker sounds hke Donald Duck. 

QUALITATIVE COMMENTS (with 18 mg, orally) "Wild effects noted in an hour. Remarkable changes in sounds heard. My wife s voice is basso, as if she had a cold -- my ears with slight pressure as if my tubes were clogged but they aren t. Radio voices are all low, music out of key. Piano sounds like a bar-room disaster. The telephone ringing sounds partly underwater. In a couple more hours, music pretty much normal again."... 

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