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 ...

Embedding a secret message into a cover media without attracting any attention is known as steganography. Steganography is one of the methods used for hidden communication purposes. One of the cover media that can be used for audio steganography is speech. All the methods that we have found for audio steganography change the values of maximum number of samples from the audio signal. Usually cha...

Facebook is one of the world’s largest social networks, with more than 2,7 billion active users globally. It also most dominant platforms and commonly used by Arabs. However, connecting via sharing content cannot be taken for granted. While many studies have focused on role played networked in empowering women Arab world general feminist movements Spring, few explored Palestinian women’s use Fa...

This paper presents an alternative energy-based algorithm to provide speech/silence classification. The algorithm is capable to track non-stationary signals and dynamically calculate instantaneous value for threshold using adaptive scaling parameter. It is based on the observation of a noise power estimation used for computation of the threshold can be obtained using minimum and maximum values ...

Packet audio streams can be distorted during the traversal of a packet switched network. The inter-packet spacing of the sender stream is not preserved as packets encounter queues in routers. The contribution of this work is a Markov model for the time delay variation of packetised voice traffic. Our model is extensible and we show this by adding silence suppression as well as including packet ...

This paper addresses the problem of voice activity detection (VAD) in noisy environments. The VAD method proposed in this paper is based on a statistical model approach, and estimates statistical models sequentially without a priori knowledge of noise. Namely, the proposed method constructs a clean speech / silence state transition model beforehand, and sequentially adapts the model to the nois...

Views on therapists’ attraction have influenced the ethical and professional development of the mental health fields. Because the majority of therapist attraction literature (63.6%) has been conducted from a psychoanalytic standpoint, approaches to attraction from feminist perspectives have not been adequately developed. Considering the lack of a feminist voice regarding attraction, this articl...

This paper presents a review of the literature on gender and organizations through the twin concepts of ‘voice’ and ‘visibility’. In gender studies, as in other areas, the concepts have been used at different levels of abstraction to analyse inequality and exclusion. However, we argue that their potential richness has not been fully exploited and we accordingly produce a ‘framework’ which is ba...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...