Bilingual talker identification with spontaneous speech in Cantonese and English: The role of language-specific knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 2763-2763
Author(s):  
Angelina Lloy ◽  
Khia A. Johnson ◽  
Molly Babel
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Talker Identification

Motivation trajectory of attending performing arts: the role of knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Zakia Obaidalahe ◽  
Nadia Steils
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Service ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose This study concerns the attendance motivations for cultural services based on the audience’s level of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to define the role played by general knowledge (e.g. cultural education) and specific knowledge (e.g. communication around a cultural product) in the attendance motivation trajectory of a cultural service. Design/methodology/approach The study uses in-depth interviews with 20 visitors to two public theatres, one in Belgium and one in France. Findings The results identify a tripartite motivation in the decision to attend a performance, corresponding to four visitor segments defined according to their level of general and specific knowledge. Originality/value The recommendations arising from the study are that potential audience members be targeted according to their particular profile and that their cultural tastes be developed by raising their level of general knowledge, an element that goes beyond the suggested motivation trajectory.

Children and Youth Librarians

2016 ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Sylvia Vincent Stavridi ◽  
Dalia Ragaa Hamada
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Children And Young Adults

In a high-tech environment where knowledge and information are delivered in a fast paced mode, the role of librarians serving children and young adults is being re-directed from being solely responsible for information and knowledge transfer to teaching and research. The children and young adult libraries at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have been trying to extend their ways to deliver the services and understand the challenges in integrating various technologies. The chapter locates a series of technology competencies and skills that are currently expected of librarians working with children and young adults. In addition to their non-technical skills, librarians have to be technologically empowered and learn a variety of technical behaviors and acquire the digital skills needed to embrace the constantly changing complexities and advances in digital technology. This chapter upgrades the digital literacy skills in discipline-specific knowledge to support the integration of digital proficiencies as relevant skills for librarians to serve in their new role as teacher librarian.

scholarly journals Campaign-Specific Information and Media Effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Francois Daoust ◽  
Katherine V.R. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Bias Effect ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
Nous Utilisons

Background  This article aims to revisit the role of digital media in acquiring campaign-specific information.Analysis  We use datasets from the Making Electoral Democracy Work project that include campaign-specific questions to analyze six regions in three democracies (Canada, Spain, and France).Conclusion and implications  Results demonstrate that voters have a moderate level of campaign-specific knowledge and that traditional media are, at first glance, more useful to acquire political information. Nevertheless, when in interaction with partisanship, traditional media display a surprisingly greater selection bias effect and appear less useful to acquire information. We thus argue that digital media are in fact not more vulnerable to potential echo chambers that would lead to a homogenous information environment.Contexte  Cet article cherche revoir le rôle numériques des medias dans l’acquisition d’information de campagne.Analyse  Nous utilisons les données du projet Making Electoral Democracy Work qui inclut des question d’information politique spécifiques de campagnes électorales pour analyser six regions dans trois démocraties (Canada, Espagne et France).Conclusion et implications  Les résultats démontrent que les électeurs ont un niveau modéré d’information politique de campagnes électorales et que les medias traditionnels sont, à première vue, plus utiles pour en faire l’acquisition. Néanmoins, en interaction avec les individus partisans, ces médias traditionnels sont l’objet d’un biais de sélection plus important et apparaissent donc moins utiles. Nous soutenons donc que les médias numériques ne sont pas plus vulnérable aux de chambre d’écho qui mènerait à un environnement d’information homogène.

scholarly journals Nursing performance in robotic surgeries: integrative review

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-800
Author(s):  
Raísha Costa Martins ◽  
Denilse Damasceno Trevilato ◽  
Marielli Trevisan Jost ◽  
Rita Catalina Aquino Caregnato
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Perioperative Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Role Of Nursing ◽  
Robotic Surgeries

ABSTRACT Objective: To know the scientific production on the performance of the nursing staff in robotic surgeries, identifying the role of the nurse in the three perioperative periods. Methods: Integrative review, search in the databases National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Scientific Electronic Library Online and Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, performed from June to September, 2017; 17 selected articles met the inclusion criteria. Results: Most articles were published in foreign journals in English, nine in the United States, classified with evidence level of 4 and 5. The role of nursing in the perioperative period was identified, related mainly to patient safety. The most mentioned perioperative period in the articles was the intraoperative, with greater concern in the positioning of the patient. Conclusion: The nursing performance and patient safety in robotic surgeries are similar to the ones in major surgeries, requiring from the patient a specific knowledge on the setting and preparation of the robot.

The MLE Teacher: An Agent of Change or a Cog in the Wheel?

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Urmishree Bedamatta
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Eastern State ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agent Of Change

This article examines the role of the multilingual education (MLE) teacher in the mother tongue-based MLE program for the Juangas, a tribe in Odisha, an eastern state of India, and is part of a broader study of the MLE program in the state. For the specific purpose of this article, I have adopted Welmond's (2002) three-step process: identifying culture-specific knowledge about the role of a teacher; examining the state's education objectives that influence teachers’ behaviour and experiences; and focusing on the behaviour and experience of teachers at the local level. These three steps constantly merged into one another during the examination of the subject under discussion. The paper recognises that the MLE teachers are not only first-generation teachers, but also first-generation practitioners of MLE, and therefore need to be resourceful and experimental in their classroom practices. However, given the national imperative to achieve universal elementary education by 2015, within the para-teacher framework adopted by the Government of India, the MLE teacher seems to be just a means to an end.

Studying variation in Romanian: deletion of the definite article -l in continuous speech

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Vasilescu ◽  
Ioana Chitoran ◽  
Bianca Vieru ◽  
Martine Adda-Decker ◽  
Maria Candea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Continuous Speech ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
Speaking Style

AbstractStudies of variation in continuous speech converge towards the conclusion that in everyday speech, words are often produced with reduced variants: some segments are shortened or completely absent. We describe an initiative to automatically exploit spoken corpora, in order to better understand linguistic behavior in spontaneous speech. This study focuses on the reduction of the postposed definite article in Romanian. The Romanian corpora used here cover several speaking styles including both prepared and spontaneous speech, such as broadcast news and debates, elicited dialogues and monologues on suggested topics. Taken together, the data sets contain more than 10 hours of speech produced in a variety of communicative frameworks. The deletion of the definite article -l, i.e. L-dropping in continuous speech, is investigated across speaking styles using pronunciation variants aligned with the speech. The main question addressed in the study is the influence of speaking style on the distribution of L-dropping. We examine the role of the surrounding context in L-dropping and L-retention. The results show that, in prepared speech and broadcast news, deletion is triggered by the context as a consequence of the communicative framework and the nature of the following segment (following vowel-initial words favor L-retention, while consonant-initial words favor L-dropping). In spontaneous speech, L-dropping is more frequent and the context is less important in predicting the occurrence of reduced variants than in other speaking styles.

Exploring the Role of the Right Temporal Lobe in Person-specific Knowledge: A Case Study of Semantic Dementia Associated with Right Temporal Lobe Atrophy

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Shutaro Nakaaki ◽  
Junko Sato ◽  
Hikaru Nakamura ◽  
Shinichi Yoshida ◽  
Kyoko Furuhashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Semantic Dementia ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lobe Atrophy

scholarly journals RSA in Spine: A Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 811-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Humadi ◽  
Sulaf Dawood ◽  
Klas Halldin ◽  
Brian Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Lumbar Spine ◽  
Range Of Motion ◽  
Rigid Bodies ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Radiostereometric Analysis ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Spinal Motion ◽  
Vertebral Segment

Study Design: Systematic review of literature. Objectives: This systematic review was conducted to investigate the accuracy of radiostereometric analysis (RSA), its assessment of spinal motion and disorders, and to investigate the limitations of this technique in spine assessment. Methods: Systematic review in all current literature to invesigate the role of RSA in spine. Results: The results of this review concluded that RSA is a very powerful tool to detect small changes between 2 rigid bodies such as a vertebral segment. The technique is described for animal and human studies for cervical and lumbar spine and can be used to analyze range of motion, inducible displacement, and fusion of segments. However, there are a few disadvantages with the technique; RSA percutaneous procedure needs to be performed to implant the markers (and cannot be used preoperatively), one needs a specific knowledge to handle data and interpret the results, and is relatively time consuming and expensive. Conclusions: RSA should be looked at as a very powerful research instrument and there are many questions suitable for RSA studies.

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