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Rosemary A Lester

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Rowe S, Tay E, Franklin L, Stephens N, Ware R, Kaczmarek M, et al.
Vaccine . 2018 Mar; 36(15):2012-2019. PMID: 29525284
Background: During a pertussis epidemic in 2009, the Department of Health, Victoria, Australia, implemented a cocoon program offering parents of new babies a funded-dose of pertussis-containing vaccine. We assessed vaccine...
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Lester R, Story B
J Acoust Soc Am . 2015 Sep; 138(2):953-63. PMID: 26328711
The purpose of this study was to determine if adjustments to the voice source [i.e., fundamental frequency (F0), degree of vocal fold adduction] or vocal tract filter (i.e., vocal tract...
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Rowe S, Cunningham H, Franklin L, Lester R
Vaccine . 2015 Mar; 33(15):1791-6. PMID: 25728321
Introduction: An epidemic of Bordetella pertussis in Victoria, Australia, led to the implementation of a Government-funded vaccination program for parents of new babies. The rationale was to protect unimmunised infants...
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Carbonell K, Lester R, Story B, Lotto A
J Voice . 2014 Dec; 29(2):140-7. PMID: 25532813
Objectives/hypothesis: Sources of vocal tremor are difficult to categorize perceptually and acoustically. This article describes a preliminary attempt to discriminate vocal tremor sources through the use of spectral measures of...
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Fuglevand A, Lester R, Johns R
J Neurophysiol . 2014 Dec; 113(5):1310-22. PMID: 25475356
During voluntary contraction, firing rates of individual motor units (MUs) increase modestly over a narrow force range beyond which little additional increase in firing rate is seen. Such saturation of...
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Lester R, Hoit J
J Speech Lang Hear Res . 2013 Oct; 57(3):734-42. PMID: 24129013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the typical pattern for inspiration during speech breathing in healthy adults, as well as the factors that might influence it. Method:...
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Lester R, Barkmeier-Kraemer J, Story B
J Voice . 2013 Mar; 27(4):422-32. PMID: 23490130
Objectives/hypothesis: This article describes a case study of physiologic and acoustic patterns of essential vocal tremor (EVT). Simulations of vocal tremor were used to test hypotheses regarding measured acoustic patterns...
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Fielding J, Bergeri I, Higgins N, Kelly H, Meagher J, McBryde E, et al.
PLoS One . 2013 Mar; 8(2):e57265. PMID: 23468949
Background: Victoria was the first state in Australia to experience community transmission of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. We undertook a descriptive epidemiological analysis of the first 1,000 notified cases to describe the...
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Mahony A, Donnan E, Lester R, Doyle J, Knox J, Tracy S, et al.
Med J Aust . 2013 Mar; 198(4):210-4. PMID: 23451966
Objectives: To examine increased notifications of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in men who have sex with men (MSM) infected with HIV in Victoria, and evaluate HCV transmission risk factors other...
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Lester R, Story B
Am J Speech Lang Pathol . 2012 Nov; 22(2):205-11. PMID: 23184136
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation of respiratory forced oscillation to the acoustic characteristics of vocal tremor. Method: Acoustical analyses were performed to determine the...