The present study investigated the teachers’ attitudes towards children with voice disorders. Three groups of listeners participated in this study: 15 primary school teachers, 15 speech therapy students, and 15 general university students. They were required to make attitude judgments for 12 children voices (6 with normal voice; 2 with mild voice disorder; 2 with moderate voice disorder; and 2 ...

The Positions on Nursing Diagnosis (PND) is a scale that uses the semantic differential technique to measure nurses' attitudes towards the nursing diagnosis concept. The aim of this study was to develop a shortened form of the Spanish version of this scale and evaluate its psychometric properties and efficiency. A double theoretical-empirical approach was used to obtain a short form of the PND,...

Various studies have provided evidence that people activate introspective simulations when making valence judgments. Such evidence is in line with an embodied cognition account that argues that cognition is fundamentally embodied, with perceptual simulation rather than language statistics being the source of lexical semantics. Recently, demonstrations that conceptual knowledge is encoded in lan...

The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to create more abstract representations related to the body are less clear. In this review, we focus on two classes of higher-order processing beyond somatosensation. Somatoperception refers to the process of perceivin...

The massive collection of personal data by personalization systems has rendered the preservation of privacy of individuals more and more difficult. Most of the proposed approaches to preserve privacy in personalization systems usually address this issue uniformly across users, thus ignoring the fact that users have different privacy attitudes and expectations (even among their own personal data...

this research titeled (semantic change in the quranic words: praise prophet reverence) this study is about how to transform from the meaning to another. in this article we looked lexical and semantic meaning of three words of quran in pre-islamic era until the end of sending quran. we studied the influence of islam in changing word semantically. islam does not bring new words but added them new...

OBJECTIVES To (1) investigate the relationships between students' characteristics and their (a) perceptions of research in general and (b) attitudes towards pharmacy practice research; (2) identify strategies that could be used by pharmacy educators to promote research interest in pharmacy practice; and (3) identify perceived barriers to the pursuit or completion of a pharmacy practice research...

Objective: to elaborate and validate an instrument evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, practices of pregnant women regarding hypertensive disease pregnancy. Methods: methodological research, develop about said disease. The stages design were: elaboration, content validation, semantic analysis with target audience. Results: instrument, following items were adopted: definition, classification, sig...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...