We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity in speech (i.e. whether a given speech data is spontaneous or not) in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its spontaneity, and thus propose to use spontaneity classification as an auxiliary task to the problem of emotion recognition. We propose two supervised learning set...

Five forms of organizational spontaneity are described (helping co-workers, protecting the organization, making constructive suggestions, developing oneself, and spreading goodwill). Organizational spontaneity is compared with the seemingly analogous constructs of organizational citizenship behavior and prosocial organizational behavior. Based on a selective review of the literature, a multilev...

It is a commonplace that emotions are characteristically passive. As we ordinarily think of them, ways in which acted upon, is, moved or affected by aspects our environment. Moreover, have no voluntary control over whether feel them. In this paper, I call attention to much-neglected respect active, less central pretheoretical concept That having emotions, engaged with the world insofar as respo...

The aim of the work to be reported here is the development of schemata which are able to predict the quality of spontaneity and help to create and collect databases for certain tasks on spontaneous speech. The term “spontaneous speech“ is used in a wide range and allows the existence of many spontaneous speech corpora with different levels of spontaneity. Our aim was to find appropriate categor...

[Purpose] To suggest physiotherapy programs and to determine foot stability based on the results of plantar pressure and spontaneity balance in the normal group and in the obesity group according to the body mass index (BMI). [Subjects and Methods] The plantar pressure and balance of 20 females college students in their 20s were measured according to their BMI. BMI was measured by using BMS 330...