Diminished expressivity is a poorly understood, but important construct for a range of mental diseases. In the present study, we employed computerized acoustic analysis of natural speech to understand diminished expressivity in patients with schizophrenia and mood disorders. We were interested in the degree to which speech characteristics tapping alogia (i.e., average pause duration) and blunte...

although systolic dysfunction is revealed as a prognostic factor in cardiac surgery , the role of diastolic dysfunction as a predictive factor is less evaluated. in this retrospective study from 872 patients that underwent isolated coronary artery bypass graft(jan 2008-feb 2009),388 patients had normal left ventricular ejection fraction (>50%). these are divided in two groups, group 1: 361 pati...

today, the internet is the significant tool of online shopping in all around the world. online transaction systems make shopper possible to make payment for services or products utilizing the internet. the current paper purpose is to focus on the elements that can affect online repurchase intentions. in the current paper we utilized survey questionnaire to gather 102 in malaysia from those that...

The automatic recognition of children’s speech is well known to be a challenge, and so is the influence of affect that is believed to downgrade performance of a speech recogniser. In this contribution, we investigate the combination of these phenomena: extensive test-runs are carried out for 1k vocabulary continuous speech recognition on spontaneous angry, motherese and emphatic children’s spee...

E. Diener, R. J. Larsen, S. Levine, and R. A. Emmons (1985) distinguished between intensity and frequency as separable components in repeatedly measured affect. In this article, an improved way of differentiating intensity and frequency of affect is proposed that permits one to measure affect intensity separately for each emotion of interest. The results of 3 studies using this method provide f...

Theories and technologies are needed to understand and integrate knowledge of student affect (e.g., frustration, motivation, and selfconfidence) into models of learning. One goal of this research is to integrate tools that model student affect into intelligent tutors and enable tutors to elicit, sense, communicate, measure and respond to student affect. This article presents multiple solutions ...