Abstract In this paper, we propose an approach to group and community digital storytelling based on the following pillars: (a) extensive periods dedicated forming; facilitating meaningful interactions members synergies through organized work activities, (b) cultivating appreciative inclusive culture that takes advantage of individual differences, (c) a process-oriented practice, informed by sys...

Men generally prefer feminine women's faces and voices over masculine women's faces and voices, and these cross-modal preferences are positively correlated. Men's preferences for female facial and vocal femininity have typically been investigated independently by presenting soundless still images separately from audio-only vocal recordings. For the first time ever, we presented men with short v...

Signs (e.g., words, gestures, tokens, pictures) point to something besides themselves and are observable. Using signs, events can reproduce themselves (in part) across time and space. Signs change meaning each time they are used, but they also accumulate meanings from each use. Voices are active subdivisions (or collectivities) of people, internalized agents representing people, and events form...

This article outlines the visions of Tunisian and Indian dissident political thinkers agronomists, 1950s–1980s, for decentralised food farming systems using just technologies. Amidst ascendent US imperialism, these marginalised proposals opposed Green Revolution model agrarian development, illustrating broader postcolonial politics defending sovereignty advancing to economic/technological sover...

The writing of history the colonial period in contemporary Moroccan historical novel is performative and highlights literary commitment writers new generation. Even if it expressed tacitly, committed part texts studied highlighted by questioningof an incomplete official historiography. revisit brings out voices authors narrative framework involves reader reflection on History. our manifest expr...

The present article shows that all scientific texts included in journals, magazines, and newspapers are vulnerable to the penetration of hedges and boosters.  However, it was found that scientific texts in the three corpora tended to open up the possibilities of alternative voices rather than narrowing them down. The relatively higher frequency of occurrence of hedges in comparison with booster...

Although we have seen a growing interest in participatory strategy-making, there is paucity of knowledge about the role polyphony and how it may be orchestrated. Our longitudinal analysis revealing case shows narrative strategy-making unfolded four temporally overlapping phases: First, top-down effort to lead resulted polyphony, which was nevertheless largely controlled from top. Second, follow...

BACKGROUND Childhood hallucinations of voices occur in a variety of contexts and have variable long-term outcomes. AIM To study the course of experience of voices sequentially over a 3-year period in those with and those without a need for mental health care (patient status). METHOD In a group of 80 children of mean age 12.9 years (s.d. = 3.1), of which around 50% were not receiving mental ...

Voices can be deliberately disguised by means of human imitation or voice conversion. The question arises to what extent they can be modified by using either method. In the current paper, a set of speaker identification experiments are conducted; first, analysing some prosodic features extracted from voices of professional impersonators attempting to mimic a target voice and, second, using both...

The present study investigated the voice quality associated with adductor spasmodic dysphonia by means of various acoustical measures. Energy distribution analyses and nonlinear dynamical measurements were used to depict the differences among voices associated with adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), vocal nodules (VN) and normal voices. Possible acoustical differences between voices associate...