PURPOSE (1) To verify the existence (or not) of hesitation marks in the beginning of utterances in children's discourse; and (2) to determine to what extent the presence/absence of these marks could be explained by retrievable facts in the production conditions of their discourses. METHODS Interview situations with four children aged 5-6 years attending Kindergarten level II in a public presc...

Narrative approach suggests that finding or creating meaning in one's own negative experience is important, and one of psychotherapeutic goals may be making it possible for the person to tell his/her in experience to others in a more positive way than otherwise. On the other hand, recent studies of self-disclosure have suggested that disclosure of negative experience could be harmful to well-be...

In this month’s issue of Pediatrics, Henrikson et al report a trial of the impact of communication training for physicians on the vaccine hesitancy of parents. The authors found that a physician-targeted communication intervention did not reduce vaccine hesitancy in mothers nor improve physician confidence compared with standard care. However, the study requires careful interpretation and shoul...

However, in order to address the problem of vaccine hesitancy, there is a great need to have a precise estimate of the problem in a specified setting and information about the root causes, which are aggravating the problem, so that customized and evidence‐based strategies can be formulated and implemented.[4,6] This is predominant because of the multidimensional nature of the problem, and thus,...

page 424. There has been a somewhat surprising hesitancy on the part of the younger members of the medical profession in India to volunteer for service in the present emergency. Political opinions have been used rather as an excuse than a reason to this hesitancy, for no one will deny India's danger or the necessity to defend her shores and frontiers, and if these facts are accepted it is sheer...

There are different university offering different types of courses over several years, and the biggest issue with that is how to get information to make course more effective. Association rule mining can be used to evaluate the course effectiveness and helps to look for in regards to changes in performance of the course. For Example there is a course offering different topics. We can say that t...

Human speech is peppered with ums and uhs, among other signs of hesitation in the planning process. But are these so-called fillers (or filled pauses) intentionally uttered by speakers, or are they side-effects of difficulties in the planning process? And how do listeners respond to them? In the present paper we review evidence concerning the production and comprehension of fillers such as um a...

This paper deals with the signals that are used to express hesitation and uncertainty in conversational interactions. It studies the relation between gesturing, body posture, facial expressions, and speech, and draws conclusions of their role and function in the interpretation and coordination of interaction with respect to the basic enablements of communication. Dialogues are assumed to be coo...