This study assessed the effectiveness of software designed to facilitate expressive oral reading through text manipulations that convey prosody. The software presented stories in standard (S) and manipulated formats corresponding to variations in fundamental frequency (F), intensity (I), duration (D), and combined cues (C) indicating modulation of pitch, loudness and length, respectively. Ten e...

This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am c...

quran as the first and most important source of religiousorders, meet all human needs in all areas; hence, the mostjurisprudence rules of this miracle of god is without detailand not always in command and prohibition; butsometimes located in amidst other quran topics such asreligious and moral issues, proverbs and stories. stories,one of the most influential and repetitive of the qurantopics, i...

positive psychology has been established not only to expand and improve the abilities of individuals, but to promote endurance, to improve life quality, and to create a shield against psychiatric symptoms. an enhancement in abilities and positive attributes should be the permanent factors in all treatments, because these interventions decrease disease symptoms, prevent their reversion, and impr...