Feldman went on to point out that quality of service and immediacy will be important for next-generation mobile applications providing networked services, such as market monitoring, financial transactions, and real-time information broadcasting. The heterogeneity of the environment these applications must run on presents many challenges to developing these applications. The diversities in user ...

New developments are presented and discussed for the interactive display and separate measurement of frication and nasality in addition to voice quality. Different clinical problems require different therapeutic and quantitative approaches and these are ideally supported by appropriate combinations of speech pattern elements. Particular use has been made of the laryngograph signal in order to s...

Chapman's hypothesis that contextual constraints are less salient and stronger meaning constraints more salient for schizophrenics than for normals was tested, as was the hypothesis drawn from the work of Salzinger and of Cromwell and Dokecki that schizophrenics are overly constrained by immediate cues relative to distant ones. The Chapman hypothesis was supported only for disorganized schizoph...

This article applies the concept of classroom community to asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) by taking on the issue of how best to design and implement a course that fosters community among learners who are physically separated from each other. The following factors that can influence sense of community among distant learners are examined: student–instructor ratio, transactional distance, s...

Embedded validity measures can screen for possible noncredible performance, but there is a paucity of literature with youth who have neurological disorders. The purpose of this study is to examine the California Verbal Learning Test, Children's Version (CVLT-C) recognition discriminability (RD) score as an embedded validity marker in a sample of youth with neurological diagnoses. Youth between ...

Web-based software was used to deliver and record the effects of programmed instruction that progressively added formal prompts until attempts were successful, programmed instruction with one attempt, and prose tutorials. Error-contingent progressive prompting took significantly longer than programmed instruction and prose. Both forms of programmed instruction substantially increased the approp...

The goal of this paper is to link a bridge between social relationship and cultural variation to predict conversants’ non-verbal behaviors. This idea serves as a basis of establishing a parameter based socio-cultural model which determines non-verbal expressive parameters that specify the shapes of agent’s nonverbal behaviors in HAI. As a first step, comparative multimodal corpus analysis is do...

This paper traces the developmental history of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) from its beginning as comprehensive distancing to its current form and status. It is maintained that technical differences between the two approaches are overshadowed by ones of conceptualization. Comprehensive distancing emerged from efforts to extend Skinner’s work on verbal behavior and rule-governance to ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of virtual reality simulation (VRS) on learning outcomes and retention of disaster training. The study used a longitudinal experimental design using two groups and repeated measures. A convenience sample of associate degree nursing students enrolled in a disaster course was randomized into two groups; both groups completed web-based modules; ...