Spencer and MacDougall-Shackleton (S&M hereafter) comprehensively reviewed published evidence to suggest that early life developmental conditions can play important roles in later life selection events. My intention here is to provide a constructive critique of how this ‘‘developmental stress hypothesis’’ is framed and studied, which may help guide further research. Commentaries on Invited Revi...

Health and Moral Stress Questionnaire (HMSQ) was constructed with the aim to assess organizational learning processes and individual skills necessary for the handling of problems connected to five areas of activity: work demands, work task control, support, computer tool use, and ethics. The main hypothesis was that the existence of organizational learning processes and individual skills contri...

1 Introduction Many languages systematically avoid stressing final syllables. This dispreference for final stress can be seen both in languages with weight-insensitive stress and those with weight-sensitive stress. For example, many languages with weight-insensitive stress, e.g. Nahuatl (Wolgemuth 1981), Polish (Comrie 1976), regularly stress the penultimate syllable, the syllable closest to th...

Within the frame of the ‘CRL’ (Corinth Rift Laboratory project) (Cornet et al, 2004a) centered on the south western sector of the Gulf of Corinth (http://www.corinth-rift-lab.org), fault zone cores from the active Aigion fault have been collected continuously from depths between 708 m to 782 m. Inside this clayey core, a clear shearing surface with marked slip lines is visible on a plane that m...

If speech analysis is to detect a speaker’s emotional state, it needs to derive information from both linguistic information, i.e., the qualitative targets that the speaker has attained (or approximated), conforming to the rules of language; and paralinguistic information, i.e., allowed variations in the way that qualitative linguistic targets are realised. It also needs an appropriate represen...

English stress placement in phrase-medial and phrasefinal position is investigated. Current results indicate that Taiwanese ESL learners realise polysyllabic words that carry various degrees of stress in two prosodic positions with considerable differences relative to the native American English speakers, and the differences are demonstrated from acoustical and phonetic perspectives.

Abs t r ac t . It is well known that many neurological diseases leave a fingerprint in voice and speech production. The dramatic impact of these pathologies in life quality is a growing concert. Many techniques have been designed for the detection, diagnose and monitoring the neurological disease. Most of them are costly or difncult to extend to primary services. The present paper shows that so...

The article presents the results of the research focused on stress factors followed in two groups – top-level athletes and recreational sportsmen. With regard to the methods used in the research the answers obtained in subjective questioning were statistically processed and then the respondents were classified into the zones of stress potential. In the field of frustration tolerance half of the...