This study investigates variation in fundamental frequency and vowel quality from speech produced in distress and non-distress conditions by victims of genuine attacks in emergency service forensic recordings and by trained actors. Recordings from two criminal cases involving violent attack were compared with recordings from four actors reenacting the forensic scenarios. Non-distress speech was...

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The current paper sought to advance the literature on computer-mediated emotional support by outlining a candidate theory of online comforting communication. We present a model that explicates the discursive, cognitive, and affective processes that function to reduce emotional distress and help improve one s psychosocial well-being. We identify unique attributes of online social interaction, as...

Background: Physicians may question their role in probing patients’ spiritual distress and the practicality of addressing such issues in the time-limited clinical encounter. Yet, patients’ spirituality often influences treatment choices during a course of serious illness. A practical, evidence-based approach to discussing spiritual concerns in a scope suitable to a physician-patient relationshi...

We examine patterns of participation in an educational environment that exists solely for the purpose of providing help to those in distress. FreeMathHelp.com is a free, open, online homework help forum that is staffed by volunteers worldwide to help students to complete homework assignments in mathematics. We focus our attention on tutoring exchanges that concern related rates problems, a topi...

In the context of technologies development aiming at helping aged people to live independently at home, the CIRDO project aims at implementing an ASR system into a social inclusion product designed for elderly people in order to detect distress situations and provide capability to call for help. In this context we present a system able to detect distress and call for help sentences on line.

The landscape of the environment we live in is an image of our common humanity. The sense of place individuals and people as a whole have is both a biological response to the surrounding physical environment and a cultural creation. People get attached to places that are critical to their well-being or cause them distress. This paper sketches the story of ‘ Sahet Alqaryoun’ , a public open spac...

background: while various radiographic parameters and application of manual/gravity stress have been proposed to elucidate instability for weber b fibula fractures, the prognostic capability of these modalities remains unclear. determination of anatomic positioning of the mortise is paramount. we propose a novel view, the gravity reduction view (grv), which helps elucidate non-anatomic position...