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Improving Portable Oxygen Concentrator Performance through the development of a New Nasal Interface
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Long term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is used to improve survival for patients with respiratory diseases who experience chronic respiratory failure. During LTOT, supplemental oxygen is supplied to patients from an oxygen source via cannula supply tubing. Portable oxygen concentrators (POCs) are a...
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Fall 2017
Background. Speech production in noisy environments is known to elicit the Lombard effect, which has been described as an involuntary increase to vocal loudness against background noise. Many studies have explored the auditory-perceptual mechanisms that contribute to the Lombard effect; however,...