Introduction Tourette disorder is a chronic, potentially disabling, neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood (1). Its symptoms are involuntary multiple motor and phonic tics, not necessarily concurrent (2). Tics show waxing and waning patterns in childhood, (23) with a tendency of decline in late childhood (3). The prevalence of Tourette disorder is ranging from 3–5 per 10,000 (3-4), it is estima...

The Chimaera is a touch-less, expressive, polyphonic and electronic music controller based on magnetic field sensing. An array of linear hall-effect sensors and their vicinity make up a continuous 2D interaction space. The sensors are excited with Neodymium magnets worn on fingers. The device continuously tracks position and vicinity of multiple present magnets along the sensor array to produce...

Literacy in Indonesia still needs to be improved, and the scope of literacy students narrower, including reading activities not understanding. This research aims create Indonesian digital phonics media for beginning ability first-grade multicultural elementary schools. The was developed with ADDIE model. subjects were experts, grade I school teachers, bilingual learners Data collection methods ...

Sir: The term neuroacanthocytosis describes a group of phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous disorders associated with choreatic movements, psychiatric abnormalities, and cognitive decline. 1,2 Patients with neuroacanthocytosis may develop dementia, 3 schizophrenia, 4,5 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 5,6 tourettism, 7 and self-mutilation. 8 We present the case of a patient with neu...

Background In England, instruction in systematic synthetic phonics is the first approach to teaching children read words. There little research exploring what makes successful training for despite evidence teachers' subject knowledge limited. a persisting problem of underachievement reading some regions mirrored United States and Australia. 2017–2018, Department Education (DfE) addressed poor o...

This study investigates the programming of elastic wave propagation bandgaps in periodic and multi-stable metamaterials by intentionally uniquely sequencing its constitutive mechanical bits. To this end, stretched kirigami is used as a simple versatile testing platform. Each bit can switch between two stable equilibria with different external shapes (aka. “(0)” “(1)” states). Therefore, designi...

Thanks to the work of Ukrainian composers post-war period (Mykola Dremliuha, Kostiantyn Miaskov, Anatolii Kolomiiets, Serhii Bashtan, Vasyl Herasymenko, etc.), process academization instrumental bandura was actively established, marked by a significant expansion genre-style and expressive-performing paraphernalia. In this direction, an important role belongs outstanding personality in composing...

We are developing a new device which is aimed at supporting non-speaking individuals in literacy learning. The PhonicStick provides direct access to spoken phonics a set of phonemes used in the literacy learning program Jolly Phonics which can then be blended into words. In an initial study, children were able to generate novel words using the first level subset of six phonics. However, the ful...

Tics are defined as involuntary, quick, sudden, and stereotypical movements or phonic productions. Despite the fact that tic suppression plays an important role for the patient's ability to cope with tic disorders, investigations of the underlying neural correlates using functional imaging focused on tic generation rather than tic suppression. We examined a patient with Gilles de la Tourette sy...