This article studies the classical theory of communications—the Spiral of Silence. The key factors are extracted for multi-agent modeling and simulation with Netlogo. It turns out that opinion climate is the external formation of the Spiral of Silence. Besides, the size of opinion climate has no direct effects on the Spiral of Silence.

For athletic coaches, there are many methods to coach athletes. One method that may not be as common, or even thought of coaching, is silence. Silence when the does speak but thinking specific team, player, and competitor items. The purpose this study was interview consistently successful high school baseball coaches with an emphasis on their silence a coaching behavior. Five in southeastern Un...

one of the problems, which are studied in islamic jurisprudence and has obtained many disputations on it, is the problem of silence of defendant. whenever a person sets forth a claim to a judge the judge requests the defendant to state his or her opinion about the claim. if the defendant replies to the request, he either denies the claim or accepts it. so there would be two react each of which ...

Silence suppression, an essential feature of speech communications over the Internet, saves bandwidth by disabling voice packet transmission when silence is detected. On the other hand, silence suppression enables an adversary to recover talk patterns from packet timing. In this paper, we investigate privacy leakage through the silence suppression feature. More specifically, we propose a new cl...

Cultural silence is frequently the outcome of deep-seated taboos regarding adults talking to children about sex and death. This paper examines the impact of cultural silence on the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. Cultural silence is often linked with denial. This article explores the complexities of cultural silence in terms of its causes, justifications and impacts. The find...

State-of-the-art text independent speaker verification systems use silence/speech detectors to get rid of silence frames which are considered to be non discriminative. This paper explores a possible replacement to this silence/speech detector by considering each Gaussian of a GMM as modeling a specific speech class and by using discriminant models like SVMs and MLPs in order to fuse the corresp...