The aim of this study was to analyze the replicability of Zuckerman's revised Alternative Five-factor model in a French-speaking context by validating the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) simultaneously in 4 French-speaking countries. The total sample was made up of 1,497 subjects from Belgium, Canada, France, and Switzerland. The internal consistencies for all countri...

Speaking rate and vowel duration are generally thought to affect the dynamic structure of vowel formant tracks. This idea was tested by letting a single professional speaker read a long text at two different speaking rates, fast and normal. The extent to which the shape of the first and second formant tracks of 8 Dutch vowels varied under the two different speaking rate conditions was investiga...

Generally speaking the greater the number of Mycobacteria lepra: there in the system, the greater is the tendency to leprous reaction. Reaction is rarely seen in the early case of nerve leprosy, but the passage from the A1 stage to the B1 stage may be marked by leprous reaction. During the B stages of skin leprosy, reaction is much more commonly seen, but as the A2 stage is approached, reaction...