An experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that the outcome of a vocal nonverbal attempt at persuasion can be affected by the participants' skills in nonverbal communication. Subjects' vocal sending or vocal decoding abilities were pretested. Senders and decoders were agents and recipients, respectively, of social influence in a field experiment in which social influence took the form o...

As first noticed by Bodman (1955), Southern Min tone sandhi gives rise to the system of alternations among the lexical long tones shown in (1) (using the phonetic tone values found in Chiayi county in southern Taiwan, expressed in the 5-point IPA scale). Given its shape, this system is often called the Southern Min Tone Circle (though the Southern Min Tone Lollipop would be a more accurate name...

Purpose Negative disclosure tone in 10-K annual reports has economic consequences, yet relatively little is known about how it generated. Boards of directors play an important governance role with respect to mandatory disclosures and personally sign off on Form 10-K, leading us expect influence financial reporting narratives. This study investigates whether the negative firms' narrative report ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuroradiculopathy (CIDP) is an immune mediated disorder characterized by progressive developing or relapsing symmetrical motor or sensory symptoms in more than one limb over a period of two months. Achalasia, as a primary esophageal motility disorder, is also characterized by increasing the tone of lower esophageal sphincter, absence or incomplete sphinct...

Syncope is the state of lack of consciousness and temporal loss of postural tone. Syncope might be in association with a variety of benign and life-threatening conditions. Pulmonary embolism (PE) has been shown to be associated with syncope in 13-30 percent of cases. This article presents a novel case report of PE whom syncope was his only manifestation.

Background: Agenesis of Corpus Callosum (ACC) is a type of brain dysgenesis with various clinical manifestations. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the clinical and neurodevelopmental outcomes of patients with ACC. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the clinical and neurodevelopmental conditions of 62 patients with complete ACC referred to subspecialty clinics of pe...