Enterprise networks are facing disruptive change caused by the use of Internet versus enterprise based applications, increasing video content, integration of voice services onto the LAN, and the transition from wired to wireless LANs. This paper explores this opportunity to adopt Passive Optical LANs (POLs), based on Gigabit Passive Optical Network technology (GPON), rather than continuing with...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

Requirements engineering, the first phase of any software development project, is the Achilles’ heel of the whole development process, as requirements documents are often inconsistent and incomplete. In industrial requirements documents natural language is the main presentation means. In such documents the system behavior is specified in the form of use cases and their scenarios, written as a s...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...

All studies that have examined children’s comprehension of passives using both actional (e.g. wash) and psychological (e.g. see) verbs in English have found a significant interaction of voice (active vs. passive) and verb type (actional vs. psychological), with psychological passives being answered most poorly. Accounts differ as to whether a grammatical impairment with passive syntax underlies...

This paper examines food couriers’ utilization of voice mechanisms as mobilization against employer silencing within platform capitalism. The concepts ‘worker silence’ and voice’ are used to facilitate an understanding the way in which workers respond workplace problems, well their capacity this specific context. Findings illustrate role technology a facilitator but also inhibitor worker voice....

The ability to recognise the identity of others is a key requirement for successful communication. Brain regions that respond selectively to voices exist in humans from early infancy on. Currently, it is unclear whether dysfunction of these voice-sensitive regions can explain voice identity recognition impairments. Here, we used two independent functional magnetic resonance imaging studies to i...

Your English teachers told you to avoid passive voice, and now your computer grammar checkers also warn you to avoid passive voice. But sometimes when you revise a passive voice sentence that flows smoothly into an active voice sentence, you realize that your new sentence flows less smoothly. Do you ever wonder whether the reader is really going to understand the sentence better or remember mor...

in their valuable discussion of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations, mannion and davies highlight the importance of organisational culture in influencing whether people raise concerns, and whether these concerns are listened to and acted upon. the role of leadership in shaping organisational culture is well-established1 and in this commentary, we will examine the influence of leaders in ...

Men commit violence against Native American women at higher rates than other racial or ethnic groups. When Indigenous is discussed and written about, it often in passive voice. Several scholars note the problem of using voice to talk about women, but there little research on how themselves understand as connected perpetrated them, we found no literature This asks urban language relationship vio...