@misc{FabianBaumannEhlertetal.2017,
  author    = {Fabian, Benjamin and Baumann, Annika and Ehlert, Mathias and Ververis, Vasilis and Ermakova, Tatiana},
  title     = {CORIA - Analyzing internet connectivity risks using network graphs},
  series = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  journal   = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {Piscataway},
  isbn      = {978-1-4673-8999-0},
  issn      = {1550-3607},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICC.2017.7996828},
  pages     = {6},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The Internet can be considered as the most important infrastructure for modern society and businesses. A loss of Internet connectivity has strong negative financial impacts for businesses and economies. Therefore, assessing Internet connectivity, in particular beyond their own premises and area of direct control, is of growing importance in the face of potential failures, accidents, and malicious attacks. This paper presents CORIA, a software framework for an easy analysis of connectivity risks based on large network graphs. It provides researchers, risk analysts, network managers and security consultants with a tool to assess an organization's connectivity and paths options through the Internet backbone, including a user-friendly and insightful visual representation of results. CORIA is flexibly extensible in terms of novel data sets, graph metrics, and risk scores that enable further use cases. The performance of CORIA is evaluated by several experiments on the Internet graph and further randomly generated networks.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{CaffierSalmenErmakovaetal.2017,
  author    = {Caffier, Philipp P. and Salmen, Tatjana and Ermakova, Tatiana and Forbes, Eleanor and Ko, Seo-Rin and Song, Wen and Gross, Manfred and Nawka, Tadeus},
  title     = {Phonomicrosurgery in Vocal Fold Nodules},
  series = {Medical Problems of Performing Artists},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Medical Problems of Performing Artists},
  publisher = {Science \& Medicine, Inc.},
  address   = {Narberth},
  issn      = {0885-1158},
  doi       = {10.21091/mppa.2017.4035},
  pages     = {187 -- 194},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {There are few data demonstrating the specific extent to which surgical intervention for vocal fold nodules (VFN) improves vocal function in professional (PVU) and non-professional voice users (NVU). The objective of this study was to compare and quantify results after phonomicrosurgery for VFN in these patient groups. METHODS: In a prospective clinical study, surgery was performed via microlaryngoscopy in 37 female patients with chronic VFN manifestations (38±12 yrs, mean±SD). Pre- and postoperative evaluations of treatment efficacy comprised videolaryngostroboscopy, auditory-perceptual voice assessment, voice range profile (VRP), acoustic-aerodynamic analysis, and voice handicap index (VHI-9i). The dysphonia severity index (DSI) was compared with the vocal extent measure (VEM). RESULTS: PVU (n=24) and NVU (n=13) showed comparable laryngeal findings and levels of suffering (VHI-9i 16±7 vs 17±8), but PVU had a better pretherapeutic vocal range (26.8±7.4 vs 17.7±5.1 semitones, p<0.001) and vocal capacity (VEM 106±18 vs 74±29, p<0.01). Three months postoperatively, all patients had straight vocal fold edges, complete glottal closure, and recovered mucosal wave propagation. The mean VHI-9i score decreased by 8±6 points. DSI increased from 4.0±2.4 to 5.5±2.4, and VEM from 95±27 to 108±23 (p<0.001). Both parameters correlated significantly (rs=0.82). The average vocal range increased by 4.1±5.3 semitones, and the mean speaking pitch lowered by 0.5±1.4 semitones. CONCLUSIONS: These results confirm that phonomicrosurgery for VFN is a safe therapy for voice improvement in both PVU and NVU who do not respond to voice therapy alone. Top-level artistic capabilities in PVU were restored, but numeric changes of most vocal parameters were considerably larger in NVU.},
  language  = {en}
}