Here, we conducted the first study to explore how motivations expressed through speech are processed in real-time. Participants listened to sentences spoken in two types of well-studied motivational tones (autonomy-supportive and controlling), or a neutral tone of voice. To examine this, listeners were presented with sentences that either signaled motivations through prosody (tone of voice) and...

Having settled upon audio as the primary communicative channel, a first basic faculty required for a successful multi-party audioconferencing environment was the ability to identify the participants, particularly the current speaker. As discussed in the previous chapter, such identification is difficult in traditional audioconferencing environments. This problem, among many others, benefits fro...

BACKGROUND We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the Good School Toolkit, developed by Raising Voices, in preventing violence against children attending school and in improving child mental health and educational outcomes. METHODS/DESIGN We are conducting a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial with parallel assignment in Luwero District, Uganda. We will also conduct a qualitative stu...

Abstract Using action research, this study examined the professional development of teachers through reflections that kindergarten obtain from children’s voices and relevance between working environment teachers’ reflection at teacher conferences in Japan. Four participated study. Data sources included perspectives on imitation paper, thoughts during interviews, visual material, narrative obser...

Harriot Stuart is well worth teaching because it offers rich possibilities both for discussing literary forms such as heroic romance, epistolary form, and womens narrative voices, investigating topics the transatlantic experience, colonialism, representations of Native Americans. Whether in a course focused specifically on Charlotte Lennoxs works or more broadly eighteenth-century fiction, can ...

The work of the Austrian writer, Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti (1905—1994) is studied in aspect literary cinematography, indicating synthesis literature and cinema, particular, choice means for implementing audiovisuality a text. phenomenon under study considered on material book “Voices Marrakesh. Notes after Journey” (“Die Stimmen von Marrakesch. Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise”), composit...

How did foreign Christian anti-footbinding activists treat the distinctive forms of human embodiment they encountered in China? What were their assumptions? How should we understand the transition from religious to secular imaginings of the body and its pains? Here I discuss late nineteenth and early twentieth century religion and medicalized hygiene through the voices of two English people who...

Relatively little attention has been paid to training forensic evaluators to prepare expert reports. Griffith and colleagues, in two publications, argue for considering forensic report writing as a core competence in the field along with forensic evaluation and court testimony. They expand our conceptualization of report writing to consider the subjective component of report writing, revealing ...

This article provides an example of a culturally responsive, community-based project for addressing social determinants of health in rural American Indian (AI) communities through: 1) empowering youth and community voices to set directions for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy prevention and education efforts; 2) using Photovoice to promote healthy relationships amo...