In this research, which was made with the photoglottographic method, the possibility was examined that a juncture might influence the glottal movements. No such influence was found which might be ...exclusively attributed to the presence of a juncture. However, the careful examination of the glottograms shows that the glottal movements cannot be adequately understood solely on the basis of mechanical principles. There must be some other underlying principle and it is argued that this principle be the phoneme.
The results of an experimental research of the glottal activity during the production of Icelandic consonants and consonant clusters are reported. The method of research is the photoglottography. It ...is concluded from the data examined that aspiration in Icelandic can be described as a function of glottal opening at the moment of release. The last part of the study contains a discussion of the place of phonetics in linguistic analysis. It is asserted that an analysis of the linguistic form always must precede a phonetic analysis.
Outcome and anticoagulation intensity was evaluated during 121 patient years of oral anticoagulant therapy monitored with the prothrombin-proconvertin clotting time (PP, also known as P&P). The ...PP-based international normalized ratio (INR; PP-INR) correlated well with the INR calculated from the prothrombin clotting time (PT; r = 0.92), and results were almost identical over a wide range after linear conversion (1/INR). When the PP-INR was 4.5 or less, the risk of major bleeding was 1 for every 118 treatment years, but it was 1 for every 73 days when the INR was 6 or more. The 1/PP-INR correlated better with factor II coagulant activity (r = 0.85) than did the 1/PT-INR (r = 0.78). The 1/PP-INR also correlated better with the native prothrombin antigen (r = 0.76) than did the 1/PT-INR (r = 0.68). The PP and PT results correlated better with factor II coagulant activity than with native prothrombin antigen. Thus, the PP clotting time results can be accurately converted to INR. The results also suggest that the PP may have advantages over the PT as an indicator of anticoagulation intensity during oral anticoagulation.
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