F0 characteristics were analyzed and modeled for the output of speech with natural prosody in communication systems. Lexicons were selected to express speaker's attitude during the human speech generation process. We modeled the prosody using information of constituent lexicons expressing attitude and markedness. Motivated by preliminary observations of prosodic variations in conversational spe...

Objectives: This study aimed at exploring the relationship of students’ attitudes towards learning communication skills to demographic variables, metacognitive skills, and to the appreciation of patient-oriented care. Methods: The cross-sectional survey study involved firstand third-term students from two traditional and two problem-based curricula (N= 351). Demographic variables, attitudes tow...

Over the last decade much attention has been drawn to the lack of women in engineering careers and the need to attract and retain them in the field. This paper will discuss prior research focused on female student self-efficacy in engineering and the subsequent treatments that have been applied at various stages in the STEM pipeline. Then we will examine the ENGR 102 HS program and results from...

Parents who are not capable of producing high-quality children tend to invest more in daughters. When parents divorce, the investment per offspring inevitably declines. It was predicted that parental divorce would result in development of more manipulative, less altruistic interpersonal attitudes—except for the relationship between daughters and kin. It also was predicted that parental divorce ...

BACKGROUND Physician-rating websites combine public reporting with social networking and offer an attractive means by which users can provide feedback on their physician and obtain information about other patients' satisfaction and experiences. However, research on how users evaluate information on these portals is still scarce and only little knowledge is available about the potential influenc...

We report the results of a systematic study of the feasibility of automatically classifying documents by genre using adjectives and adverbs as indicators of affective language. In addition to the class of adjectives and adverbs, we focus on two specific subsets of adjectives and adverbs: (1) trait adjectives, used by psychologists to assess human personality traits, and (2) speaker-oriented adv...

Software developers continue to face considerable challenges designing, implementing, and maintaining software systems despite steady advances in software engineering (SE). The software engineering literature contains numerous tool designs that aim to help developers perform complex information-intensive tasks. Regardless of the particular problems these tools aim to solve, they often address f...

Research Article Khim-Yong Goh National University of Singapore [email protected] Jerry Wenjie Ping National University of Singapore [email protected] Advergames are increasingly popular for online advertising campaigns. However, few IS studies have investigated the effectiveness of this unique advertising strategy. This study sheds light on the effectiveness of advergames by study...

carnival is one of polyphonic word basis in mikhail bhaktin’s theory of dialogue logic. since “the carnival” is emerged from the mass celebrates in the middle ages, this element in language, is demonstrated with components, as humor, mockery and joking, rejecting the values of society, mixture of life and death, according to flesh and physical delight, social criticism, and in general, anything...