Practicing Epidemiology: How Competent are We?

Practicing epidemiology: how competent are we?

Are we practicing what we preach?

the modus operandi in the classroom has been integrating activities. Instead of assigning one specific activity to each skill area, we take one activity and stretch it (without stretching the point too much) to include all the skill areas. For example, instead of focusing just on the speaking/listening skills by having learners discuss a topic, we expand the activity to include a reading and a ...

How we are not equally competent for discriminating acted from spontaneous expressive speech

This paper reports how acted vs. spontaneous expressive speech can be discriminated by human listeners, with various performances depending on the listener (in line with preliminary results for amusement by [3]). The perceptive material was taken from the Sound Teacher/E-Wiz corpus [1], for 4 French-speaking actors trapped in spontaneous expressive monoword utterances, and then acting immediate...

How we are born.

Human reproduction is relatively inefficient. Nearly 30% of pregnancies result in spontaneous losses, which are both a clinical problem and a psychological stress to the families involved. Furthermore, although the human population is growing rapidly and is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050, 15% of couples worldwide are childless because of infertility. Many underlying causes of infertility ...

How sustainable are we?

part of being human is our capacity to transform the natural world around us. although we rightly rejoice in our scientific knowledge, we are increasingly aware of the damage that we are causing as our technological powers have gone beyond harnessing forces and resources locally, to controlling and redirecting on a massive scale. if all the peoples of the world consumed resources at the rate of...