Spectra of vowels sung a t identical pitches by two tenor voices and two alto voices a r e compared. The formant frequencies and the source spectra a r e studied by matching the spectra on a terminal analogue of the vocal tract. As regards the source spectrum the alto voices show a higher relative amplitude of the fundamental than the tenor voices. As regards the formants, ari apparent differen...

Payers are demanding that US health care become more accountable and integrated, posing new demands for physicians and the organizations that partner with them. We conducted focus groups with 30 physicians in a large integrated delivery system who had previous experience practicing in less integrated settings and asked about skills they need to succeed in this environment. Physicians identified...

The so-called chemical revolution has produced a vast historiographical corpus. Yet the patient's voice remains surprisingly absent from these stories. Based on the archives of the Institut de Psychiatrie (Brussels), this paper traces the introduction of Largactil as recounted in patient letters, physician records and nurse notes. The paper thus contributes to the history of therapies from belo...

Since the publication in 1980 of the first report of successful balloon angioplasty for symptomatic basilar artery atherosclerotic stenotic disease in two patients (1), several articles have appeared in the literature providing additional reports of the successes, limitations, and pitfalls of this evolving technique. All of the articles have had severe limitations in their study design, includi...

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...

This paper explores school reforms as a moral voice, which speaks in a different language in each context. We used the comprehensive school reform in Finland as an example and asked how teachers talk about it. Five discourses were identified: the silence, the irony, the submission, the active resistance and the opportunities. The sixth discourse, ‘the commitment’, was used when teachers talked ...