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The goal of this paper is to discuss a substantive rather than a formal parallel between language and music and to suggest that musical notation may have value in representing some speech materia!. The domain of interest is...

So far, there exists no standard, to evaluate a practitioner's skills in pure-tone audiometry. To narrow the gap, this article presents an artificial patient (AP) emulating various types of hearing impairment. In contrast to...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

Conventional Distorted Born Iterative Method (DBIM) using single frequency has low resolution and is prone to creating images with high-contrast subjects. We propose a productive frequency combination method to better result in...

Information Retrieval Library and Information Science Information Retrieval

EZH2 HR-MAS TOP2A Citrate prostate cancer Radiotherapy Recurrence

Sarcasm detection in written texts is the Achilles’ heel of research areas in sentiment analysis, especially with the absence of the rightful verbal tone, facial expression or body gesture that leads to random...

Information Retrieval Library and Information Science Information Retrieval

Competency models are prevalent within various industries in business. Their popularity is due to the value they add to employee development and organizational capability. The popularity of competency models and specifically...

Business and Management Business and Organizational Research Organizational Learning Media and Communications

Incorporating linguistic knowledge into native language curriculum is essential if learners are to find their way into the language's structure, patterns, and ways of constructing meanings and expressing ideas. For example...

In a world of schooling that is increasingly driven by the measurable and quantifiable, poetry provides a rare experience of the ineffable. While there are indeed many other things teachers need to learn besides the reading and...

Data fusion centers have been around since the 9/11 terrorist attacks but have been shackled with an underperforming label. Products from fusion centers often do not support the mission of the organizations supporting the...

Using methods of critical discourse analysis, I studied all opinion pieces and editorials about poverty published in the National Post during the first three months of 2014. The dominant discourse that emerged was one of war on...

critical discourse analysis, poverty, National Post, opinion-editorial pieces, anti-poverty advocates

Since its inception in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) has hosted national conferences (N = 28) designed to serve professional choral conductors and choral educators. Previous studies indicated that such...

This chapter focuses on the joint implementation of blended learning and active learning. The authors analysed 152 institutional websites containing definitions of these concepts. Blended learning is commonly, though arguably...

Blended & Mobile Learning Education Higher Education Computer Science and Information Technology

Singing is often the window to the young child's musical life. Children sing during play, alone and with others, and group singing activities are encouraged in day care centers and preschool settings. However, some children seem...

Discussions of the causes of the inequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic strike a similar tone as the same discussion of the 2008 financial crisis. In this review of the literature on post-2008 financial crisis and the...

neo-liberalism; COVID-19; global financial crisis; economic recovery

Using a corpus approach, this article investigates the translation styles of the first chapter of Fu Sheng Liu Ji at three levels: the statistical parameters, the translation of culture-specific lexis, and readability...

The reputation of French composer Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) rests primarily on his orchestral works, produced regularly throughout his mature career. By contrast, his output of vocal works reveals an interesting gap: having...

AIMS: Fundamental roadblocks, such as non-use and low electronic health (eHealth) literacy, prevent the implementation of eHealth resources. The aims were to study internet usage for health information and eHealth literacy in...

Coronary Artery Disease Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Risk Factors Secondary Prevention eHealth literacy