All work of culture industries, in some way or the other is preoccupied with claims to authenticity. This insight comes from the recent work of the sociologist Richard A. Peterson that has been inspired by Hobsbawm and Ranger’s (1983) landmark volume on ‘invented tradition’. While much of Peterson’s earlier work focuses on the organization and production of popular music (for a review, see Pete...

PURPOSE To analyze the relationship between voice disorders and work in a group of Community Health Agents (CHA). METHODS The subjects of this study were 65 CHA working in the city of São Paulo. Thefiinstrument used for data collection was an adaptation of the questionnaire named Conditions of Vocal Production - Teachers (CPV-P). The results were keyed in twice and submitted to statistical an...

Holding a public meeting is a frequent method of communicating with community residents during official investigations into possible cancer clusters; however, there has been little formal research into the effectiveness of this method of health communication. This article presents research examining the influence of public meetings held during ongoing cancer cluster investigations in six U.S. c...

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

In the world of globalization, knowledge workers have grown in importance to organizational development. Currently, intelligence voice assistant (IVA) has a high degree participation people's lives, displaying trend becoming an emotional partner for humans. Therefore, whether application IVA can help enhance communication is worthy be explored. This study adopted interactive situation-simulatio...

    Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder and many PD patients experience some type of voice and speech disorders during the course of illness. In this study, the aim was to investigate the effect of Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT) on improving voice difficulties in patients with mild PD using voice handicap index (VHI).    Methods: This interventiona...

Background: Vocal abuse and misuse would result in vocal fold polyp. Certain features define the extent of vocal folds polyp effects on voice acoustic parameters. The present study aimed to define the effects of polyp size on acoustic voice parameters, and compare these parameters in hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic polyps.Methods: In the present retrospective study, 28 individuals with hemorrha...