Storytime : a pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech by Travers Kumar, Juanita

“…The study hypothesized that when parent participants were presented with an incongruent label-referent condition, they will modulate the duration, pitch and intensity of their label utterances’ during CDS in a degree or direction otherwise expected in a congruent condition. Voice recordings of the participants were then analysed for duration, pitch and intensity differences. …”
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Co-design of 'Ways of Being', a web-based experience to optimise online arts and culture for mental health in young people by Syed Sheriff, RJ, Sinclair, E, Young, J, Bhamra, S, Chandler, L, Arachchige, T, Adams, H, Bonsaver, L, Riga, E, Bergin, L, Mirtorabi, N, Abuelgasim, L, Beuchner, H, Geddes, J

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Navigating the views of all co-designers to produce a testable resource demanded in-depth understanding, and frequent iterations in multiple modalities of the theoretical basis of the intervention, amplification of youth voice and commitment to a common goal.</p> <br> <p><strong>Clinical implications:</strong> Co-design with a broad range of collaborators with a shared vision was valued by young co-designers and produced an effective intervention. …”

Skeletal myotubes expressing ALS mutant SOD1 induce pathogenic changes, impair mitochondrial axonal transport, and trigger motoneuron death by Martínez, Pablo, Silva, Mónica, Abarzúa, Sebastián, Tevy, María F., Jaimovich, Enrique, Constantine-Paton, Martha, Bustos, Fernando J., van Zundert, Brigitte

“…We report that conditioned media from mutSOD1 myotubes (mutSOD1-MCM), but not from control myotubes (NTg-MCM), induced robust death of primary MNs in mixed spinal cord cultures and compartmentalized microfluidic chambers. …”
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Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

“…Self-binding peptides containing zipper-like sequences, such as the Leu/Ile zipper sequence within the coiled coil regions of proteins and the cross-β spine steric zippers within the amyloid-like fibrils, could bind to the protein-of-origin through homophilic sequence-specific zipper motifs. …”
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Improved virtual keyboard design for P300-based brain-computer interface by Tay, Abel Ping Liang.

“…Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, brain or spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophies, multiple sclerosis, and numerous other diseases impair the neural pathways that control muscles or impair the muscles themselves. …”
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Hearing loss and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: a population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom by Khalid, S, Alhambra, DP, Hasheminasab, SA, Vinogradova, Y, Qureshi, N, Ratzinger, M, Brunetti, V, Salas, A, Canals, L

“…Purpose: Assess association between hearing loss (HL) and major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; spine, wrist/forearm, shoulder/proximal humerus, hip) in individuals aged ≥ 60 years, and risk factors for MOF in individuals with HL. …”

Translating oral histories: a podcast by Wong, Melissa Xin Yu

“…Through the Chinese-English translation of this podcast, this project examines how a translation can respect the original voice of the speaker. The project identifies the main challenge as maintaining the casual and informal tone of conversation in a textual form. …”
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Nonverbal communication cues of bank CEOs and long term performance during financial crisis. by Goh, Le Min., Liang, Sihui., Lim, Shi Bin.

“…Another interesting result obtained is that male CEOs with a lower voice pitch repaid TARP money faster, which may be due to testosterone levels, dominance and leadership. …”
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Character-aware audio-visual subtitling in context by Huh, J, Zisserman, A

“…We propose an approach using local voice embeddings of the audio, and large language model reasoning on the text transcription. …”

The role of post-pyrolysis carbon dioxide capture in hydrogen recovery from waste-derived pyrolysis gas by Wang, Yuxin, Veksha, Andrei, Ong, Joel, Ueki, Yasuaki, Yoshiie, Ryo, Naruse, Ichiro, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…The pyrolysis gas was obtained from various waste-derived feedstocks (municipal sewage sludge, refused derived fuel (RDF), pine sawdust (biomass), and marine litter) by pyrolysis (600 °C), and underwent the treatment with CaO (600 °C) followed by the thermolytic decomposition at 1300 °C. …”
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Real time analysis of social behavior from video and kinect recordings by Ramasamy, Pandi Ramesh

“…Finally,analysis will be performed using pattern recognition algorithms and machine learning classifiers to detect the emotion of the subject.In this project,machine learning classifiers such as K-nearest neighbors,Naive Bayes and C4.5 Decision tree learning has been used. The prime aim is to pin point the most seemly machine learning classifier for obtaining highest accuracy for classification.…”
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A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers : From Whispers to Resonance / by Raghavan, Neeraja, translator 656168

“…Above all, it brings out the crying need for a teacher's voice to be heard - for far too long, teachers have been mere implementers of decisions taken by policy makers or managements of schools. …”
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MAS.630 Affective Computing, Spring 2008 by Picard, Rosalind W.

“…Topics include the interaction of emotion with cognition and perception; the role of emotion in human-computer interaction; the communication of human emotion via face, voice, physiology, and behavior; construction of computers that have skills of emotional intelligence; the development of computers that &quot;have&quot; emotion; affective technologies for autism; and other areas of current research interest. …”
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MAS.630 Affective Computing, Spring 2002 by Picard, Rosalind W.

“…Topics include the interaction of emotion with cognition and perception, the role of emotion in human-computer interaction, the communication of human emotion via face, voice, physiology, and behavior, construction of computers that can recognize and respond appropriately to human emotional expressions, the development of computers that "have" emotion, and other areas of current research interest. …”
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medTrack : a medication and appointment adherence system by Tan, Felice Yu Ting

“…Furthermore, the emergence of Voice Assistant into healthcare has concluded that the three highest-value use cases are clinic documentation, remote care, and clinic support. …”
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An acoustic-based encounter profiling system by Zhang, Huanle, Du, Wan, Zhou, Pengfei, Li, Mo, Mohapatra, Prasant

“…DopEnc performs encounter profiling in two major steps: (1) Doppler profiling to detect that two persons approach and stop in front of each other via an effective trajectory, and (2) voice profiling to confirm that they are thereafter engaged in an interactive conversation. …”
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Micro-array beam forming and testing for speech recognition in industrial settings by Dogruoglu, Melis Feriha

“…Beamforming is a signal processing technique used to enhance quality of speech recordings, which is done by isolating the speaker’s voice from surrounding noise. This is present in a variety of applications such as wireless communication, and acoustics. …”
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IOT – development of a home automation system 8 by Yam, Hui Jing

“…The prototype smart home system is developed, including key functionalities such as sensor monitoring, adaptive fan response, lighting schedule configuration, and voice control integration. Users can access these functionalities through web and mobile dashboards designed. …”
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The first person pronoun in archaic Chinese, with a note on duplex characters by Benedict, Paul K.

“…Finally, in Written Tibetan (WT) the -ga -ka TM is directly suffixed, whereas in Written Burmese (WB) it reflects an intervening ergative *-s: WB -ka' < *s-ga, with regular 'creaky voice' [represented as '] < *s-; cf. WT sga, WB ka' `saddle'.…”
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Performance study of mobility support in WiMAX network by Guo, Aifen.

“…WiMAX is designed to support a large set of existing and emerging applications, such as Voice-Over-IP (VoIP). All the applications have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. …”
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