Medical imaging is widely used in clinical practice for diagnosis and treatment. Specialized physicians read medical images and write textual reports to narrate the findings. Report-writing can be error-prone for unexperienced physicians, and time-consuming and tedious for physicians in highly populated nations. To address these issues, we study the automatic generation of medical imaging repor...

The aim of the study was the analysis of key motives for adoption in the context of life experiences of childless couples. This article covers the selected aspects of the qualitative analysis of the biographical narrations obtained during the narration interviews conducted with Polish and French adoptive parents. The study was conducted using the biographical method. The choice of adoptive pare...

We describe an automated method to assess children’s oral reading using a prosodic synthesis model trained on multiple adults’ speech. We evaluate it against a previous method that correlated the prosodic contours of children’s oral reading against adult narrations of the same sentences. We compare how well the two methods predict fluency and comprehension test scores and gains of 55 children a...

We describe an automated method to assess the expressiveness of children’s oral reading by measuring how well its prosodic contours correlate in pitch, intensity, pauses, and word reading times with adult narrations of the same sentences. We evaluate the method directly against a common rubric used to assess fluency by hand. We also compare it against manual and automated baselines by its abili...

We conducted semi-focused interviews with the goal of starting narrations by the users about their encounters and interactions with technology and artefacts. The results provide insights on how participants organize their experiences and which factors are relevant for evoking positive or negative experiences. The study aimed to gain more insight in the content, generation and progression of eve...

This is a short overview of the origins of distribution theory as well as the life of Sergĕı Sobolev (1908–1989) and his contribution to the formation of the modern outlook of mathematics. Sergĕı Lvovich Sobolev belongs to the Russian mathematical school and ranks among the scientists whose creativity has produced the major treasures of the world culture. Mathematics studies the forms of reason...