In this paper a study is described on the prosodic voice wave characteristics of different rhetorical styles. Analysed were pitch, intensity and duration features of segments annotated ethos, pathos and/or logos in the 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address of Barack Obama (USA). It was discovered that ethos shows a lower mean pitch and a slower speech rate, possibly to confer more...

INTRODUCTION We present the initial experience of a novel surgical chair for laparoscopic pelvic surgery, the ETHOS™ (Bridge City Surgical, Portland, OR). MATERIALS AND METHODS The ETHOS chair has an adjustable saddle height that ranges from 0.89 to 1.22 m high, an overall width of 0.89 m, and a depth of 0.97 m. The open straddle is 0.53 m and fits most OR tables. We performed 7 pelvic laparo...

School ethos refers to the school leadership's purposive efforts to shape and direct the attitudes, values and behaviors needed in order to promote an active learning environment and to prevent the emergence of undesirable behaviors by creating shared meaning and common goals for the school. The aim of this study was to examine how teacher rated aspects of school ethos are linked with manifesta...

Name pattern name Intent what the instructor wants to teach, or avoid, or ... Idea how this pattern can achieve the Intent Motivation describes why the instructor wants to achieve the Intent with this pattern Note: Think of the above three sections in the following way: “I want to (the Intent), using (the Idea), because (the Motivation).” Indications circumstances in which this pattern is most ...

Th e aim of this paper is to describe and analyse attitudes and behaviours of the student population (N=1347) of the University of Rijeka towards environmental issues. Data were collected during the summer semester of the 2015/2016 academic year. Paper seeks to explore the connection between the following measured concepts: socio-ecological orientations, pro-environmental behaviour, ethos types...