This case study investigated the effect of body position on the first three formants (F1, F2, F3) of the British English vowels /iː/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ɔː/ and /uː/ produced by one male native speaker. While F1 remained unaffected significant changes in F2 and F3 were found for certain vowels when they were produced in a supine rather than in an upright position. F2 was significantly lower for /iː/, /...

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A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T RA C T Article history: Received July 24, 2014 Accepted August 04, 2014 Available online August 08, 2014

This paper presents a wearable posture device that can detect and alert when a person tries to attempt a cross leg at the knee level. Generally having a cross leg is considered as normal but if it is done regular then it can create large number of problems such as damaging the veins, increasing the blood pressure, temporary paralysis and sometimes long term numbness. The main problem is that we...

the distinguishing characteristic in the third millennium is planning based on principles of sustainable development in line with nature and all activities related to urban issues. ecological concepts and consequently ecological park refers to a comprehensive and integrated set of measures which create coordination, balance between the constituent elements of the park in order to establish sust...

We present an empirical investigation of nonverbal behavior in long-term interaction spanning multiple conversations, in the context of a developing interpersonal relationship. Based on a longitudinal video corpus of human-human counseling conversation, we develop a model of the occurrence of posture shifts which incorporates changes that occur both within a single conversation and over multipl...