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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825638703321

Titolo

Assessment of motor speech disorders / / edited by Anja Lowit and Raymond D. Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, California ; ; Oxfordshire, [England] : , : Plural Publishing, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-59756-740-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

LowitAnja

KentRaymond D

Disciplina

616.85/5

Soggetti

Articulation disorders - Diagnosis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

The ICF framework and its relevance to the assessment of people with motor speech disorders -- The assessment of intelligibility in motor speech disorders -- Physiological assessment -- Assessment of prosody -- The psychosocial impact of acquired motor speech disorders -- Measurement of communicative participation -- Cognition and its assessment in motor speech disorders -- Conversation analysis and acquired motor speech disorders in everyday interaction -- Telerehabilitation and the assessment of motor speech disorders -- Biodynamics of speech and orofacial movement -- Assessment of rhythm -- Assessment of intonation -- Variability and coordination indices and their applicability to motor speech disorders -- Functional neuroimaging for the investigation of motor speech disorders -- Apraxic failure and the hierarchical structure of speech motor plans : a nonlinear probabilistic model -- Defective neural motor speech mappings as a source for apraxia of speech : evidence from a quantitative neural model of speech processing.

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, with both a clinical and a research focus. This unique resource reviews research evidence pertaining to best practice in the clinical assessment of established areas such as intelligibility and



physiological functioning, as well as introducing recently developed topics such as conversational analysis, participation measures, and telehealth.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011659903321

Autore

Sharma Rajesh

Titolo

Nonlinear Optical Materials for All-Optical Switching Applications / / by Rajesh Sharma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9789819659210

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 pages)

Collana

Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, , 2363-510X ; ; 33

Disciplina

535.2

621.3694

Soggetti

Nonlinear optics

Optical materials

Telecommunication

Nanochemistry

Optical communications

Nanotechnology

Nonlinear Optics

Optical Materials

Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications

Optical Communications

Nanoengineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction to nonlinear optical materials -- 2. Spatial and temporal profile measurements of the lasers -- 3. Advances in Temporal profile measurement of ultrafast pulsed lasers -- 4. Advanced nonlinear optical techniques. 5. Optical nonlinearities in semiconductors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the background and fundamentals of nonlinear optical materials in relation to all-optical switching applications. It



explains major aspects of nonlinear refractive index and the nonlinear absorption phenomena which are essential to decide the figure-of-merit of various materials for the all-optical switching. Autocorrelation technique, frequency-resolved optical gating, spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, grating-eliminated no-nonsense observation of ultrafast incident laser light e-fields are discussed to measure the temporal and spectral profiles of the ultrafast pulsed lasers. Advanced nonlinear optical characterization methods such as single- and dual-arm Z-scan, pump-probe and beam deflection techniques are also discussed at length. The transmission signal obtained in the majority of the nonlinear optical effects is found to be weak which creates hiccups to obtain faster switching speeds. Various solutions are discussed to overcome these existing limitations of the all-optical switching-based devices. Optical nonlinearities in semiconductors, organic molecules and challenges in all-optical switching devices are also addressed in the book.