OBJECTIVE To develop a computer based learning (CBL) program in diabetes management for health care providers and academic staff MATERIAL AND METHOD A CBL program was developed using "Authorware Professional ver. 6. 0" software. Content validation, computer background survey and investigation of the usability of the program, was conducted as part of the production of this program. The involve...

OBJECTIVE This article aims to describe the characteristics of the binaural interaction component (BIC) of speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR). MATERIALS AND METHODS All 15 subjects had normal peripheral hearing sensitivity. ABRs were elicited by speech stimulus /da/. RESULTS The first BIC (BIC-SP1) in the speech-evoked ABR occurred at around 6 ms in the region of peak V. The se...

Previous work on reference in dialogue has shown that speakers adapt to the concepts that were used in earlier references during an interaction (such as orientation when a dialogue partner describes a chair as “the chair seen from the front”), even if these concepts are generally dispreferred. Here, we investigate to what extent it matters whether speakers interact with an artificial or a human...

In English Question+Answer (Q+A) pairs, periodicity typically emerges across turn space, to a degree of precision matching standards of music perception. Interactionallyaligned Q+A pairs display such shared periodicity across the turn, while unaligned pairs do not. Periodicity is measured as temporal location of f0 maxima or minima, ‘pikes’, in successive accented syllables. This study asks whe...

This paper investigates how, in the delivery of diagnostic news, participants to the delivery may engage in meaning assessment or interpreting the news. It draws on data from 24 conversations in developmental disabilities clinics, internal medicine clinics and HIV counselling and testing clinics in the USA. The analysis shows that participants initiate meaning assessment sequences whereby one p...

This paper presents two cases of lexically gradient phonotactic restrictions that operate against what would be phonetically natural: Tarma Quechua and Berawan. The paper shows that the unnatural trends in the lexicon are statistically significant, phonetically real, and show clear signs of productivity, with evidence from loanword phonology and from morphophonological alternations. Based on th...

Passive constructions are examined cross-linguistically (English, German and Chinese) in an exploration of factors that contribute to their relative acceptability. Passives are universally dispreferred to their active counterparts. We describe a methodology for empirical analysis of factors that modulate differences in acceptability between passive and active variants of the same propositional ...

In 3 experiments, we investigated whether intonational phrase structure can be primed. In all experiments, participants listened to sentences in which the presence and location of intonational phrase boundaries were manipulated such that the recording included either no intonational phrase boundaries, a boundary in a structurally dispreferred location, a boundary in a preferred location, or bou...

background: these days, diabetes is deemed as one of the most important health and social-economic problems of the world. since parents play a major role in treatment of diabetes, the most important part of managing diabetes is in the hands of the parents of children affected by diabetes. this special responsibility will increase the stress and family challenges and impacts parents’ emotional r...