{"id":431,"date":"2013-03-04T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-03-12T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:47:55","slug":"cara-stepp-awarded-nih-r03-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/2013\/03\/04\/cara-stepp-awarded-nih-r03-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Stepp awarded NIH R03 Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cara Stepp has been awarded an NIH R03 grant entitled &#8220;Automation of Relative Fundamental Frequency Estimation&#8221;. This prestigious award will be used to study Relative Fundamental Frequency (RFF), which is\u00a0an acoustic measure of voice. Previous work has shown that RFF may be useful in diagnosing and assessing<span>\u00a0vocal hyperfunction (VH), a very common voice disorder that is characterized by excessive laryngeal tension. This project will involve developing algorithms and protocols to help move RFF from a research method to a clinically viable\u00a0assessment tool. <a href=\"http:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8810666&amp;icde=23855070\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cara Stepp has been awarded an NIH R03 grant entitled &#8220;Automation of Relative Fundamental Frequency Estimation&#8221;. This prestigious award will be used to study Relative Fundamental Frequency (RFF), which is\u00a0an acoustic measure of voice. Previous work has shown that RFF may be useful in diagnosing and assessing\u00a0vocal hyperfunction (VH), a very common voice disorder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}