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Visual Cues to Speakers’ Religious Affiliation and Listeners’ Understanding of Second Language French Speech

open access: yesLanguages
Previous research has shown that speakers’ visual appearance influences listeners’ perception of second language (L2) speech. In Québec, Canada, the context of this study, pandemic mask mandates and a provincial secularism law elicited strong societal ...
Sara Kennedy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehension and trust in crises: investigating the impact of machine translation and post-editing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We conducted a survey to understand the impact of machine translation and postediting awareness on comprehension of and trust in messages disseminated to prepare the public for a weather-related crisis, i.e. flooding.
Cadwell, Patrick   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Illusions of Knowledge: Media Exposure and Citizens’ Perceived Political Competence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2017
  Citizens’ willingness to participate in politics is contingent on not only factual political knowledge but their subjective perceptions of competence.
Mathias Weber, Christina Koehler
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Bruno Bauch and the Comprehensibility of Nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this paper is to discuss how Bruno Bauch deals with the problem of the coordination between empirical concepts and spatiotemporal objects. We shall argue that Bauch reformulates the Kantian distinction between concepts and intuitions by means ...
Pringe, Hernan Bruno
core   +3 more sources

Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

La cognoscibilidad del pasado pre-europeo. Problemas y propuestas

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2005
How can we achieve knowledge of the past of peoples who lived in South America before the arrival of the Europeans? Did they possess notions of historical consciousness in spite of the absence of written sources or are we confined to myths based on ...
Peter Kaulicke
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehensibility of a personalized medication overview compared to usual-care prescription drug labels

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Poor understanding of prescription drug label (PDL) instructions can lead to medication errors, suboptimal treatment (side) effects, and non-adherence.
Laura Schackmann   +7 more
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Comprehensibility and Prosody Ratings for Pronunciation Software Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the context of a project developing software for pronunciation practice and feedback for Mandarin-speaking learners of English, a key issue is how to decide which features of pronunciation to focus on in giving feedback.
David Crabbe, Irina Elgort, Paul Warren
core   +2 more sources

Unheard and Under‐Supported: Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligibility-based Instruction and English as a lingua franca

open access: yesResearch in Language
This paper draws heavily from my previous work on intelligibility (Hodgetts, 2020). It advocates basing pronunciation instruction on intelligibility goals, rather than native-like production goals and investigates the research available on the segmental
John Hodgetts
doaj   +1 more source

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