this research aims at investigating the amount of the application of servant leadership component in the libraries of isfahan state universities. the research method is descriptive survey study and the study population consists of managers and librarians of isfahan state universities in 2009-2010.the sample was estimated 111 by using cochran's formula. the random stratified sampling method was ...

Speech telecommunication systems are most frequently used in conversational situations. In this regard, assessing the quality of conversational speech is the fundamental requirement for system developers to classify and evaluate their systems. However, it is not enough to provide information about the overall quality, but also to point out sources for possible quality-losses. We present a follo...

Many speech source separation approaches are based on the assumption of orthogonality of speech sources in the time-frequency domain. The target speech source is demixed from the mixture by applying the ideal binary mask to the mixture. The time-frequency orthogonality of speech sources is investigated in detail only for anechoic and artificially mixed speech mixtures. This paper evaluates how ...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the type of professional and non professional work of community pharmacists in Surabaya Indonesia and find the difference between time spent for performing both works in actual (current) situation and ideal (expected) situation. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted by combining purposive sampling for selecting the community pharmacists. Afterwar...

We are interested in the validation of a cognitive theory of human communication, grounded in a speech acts perspective. The theory we refer to is outlined, and a number of predictions are drawn from it. We report a series of protocols administered to 13 brain-injured subjects and to a comparable control group. The tasks included direct and indirect speech acts, irony, deceits, failures of comm...

Article history: Received 14 April 2015 Received in revised form 26 May 2016 Accepted 22 July 2016 Available online 11 August 2016 Based on Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, this paper critiques the transparency and legitimacy of participatory scenario planning, considering a case study of scenario development for the livestock industry within Scotland. The paper considers the extent to...

Within the area of advanced man-machine interaction, speech communication has always played a major role for several decades. The idea of replacing the convential input devices such as buttons and keyboard by voice control and thus increasing the comfort and the input speed considerably, seems that much attractive, that even the quite slow progress of speech technology during those decades coul...

One characteristic of infant-directed speech is that it is highly fluent compared with adult-directed speech. However, the speech that infants hear still contains disfluencies. Such disfluencies might potentially cause problems for infants during language development. We first analyzed samples of spontaneous speech in the presence of infants (both adultand infant-directed) and found that under ...