The robotic system has an advantage over the traditional laparoscopic approach regarding improved articulation of instruments, stereoscopic vision, tremor reduction and motion downscaling [7].
Different authors suggest that maxillary advancement may improve articulation due to correction of the occlusion but cause hypernasal speech.
Slowing down of syllable duration, however, was suggested to improve articulation, at least in dysarthric patients (Hustad et al., 2003).
For articulation, focusing on the target sounds during a naturalistic situation such as storybook reading by analyzing words or patterns could help the child to match events with words and sounds for improving articulation and developing phonemic awareness.
We believe that this partnership will improve the articulation of the course across institutions and may spark interest in the modification of this course beyond NAU.
Examining draft and final versions of concept maps and teachers' views on the activity of concept mapping helps us to understand how medical teachers apply the concept mapping instructions and how they improve the articulation of integration of clinical and basic sciences [ 7, 14, 15].
Approximately a month later, in a second group session, participants were asked to check whether any mistakes had been made during digitization, and to review and refine the ordering and relations between the concepts in order to improve the articulation of the knowledge relevant for clerks.
Government reform trends moved toward increasing administrative efficiency and accountability, meeting national economic needs through improved technological education, improving the articulation of system parts, opening the school to the community, and correcting inequalities, through both curricular and organizational provisions.
We gratefully thank Mss. Isabella Mead and Karen Cisneros for their professional proofreading, which improved the articulation of the paper, and the fruitful assistance on statistics by Dr. Mario Ferrara.
This paper describes a modified vocoder-based frequency-lowering system similar to one reported by Posen et al. (1993), with the goal of improving place-of-articulation perception by enhancing the spectral differences of fricative consonants.
