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Uncovering the Challenges and Needs of Chinese Adoptive Parents in Hong Kong
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adoptive parenting is a lifelong process. Adoptive parents face unique challenges at different stages of parenting, which require proper recognition, specialised support and sustained services. However, social stigma against infertility and adoption in Asian societies, including Hong Kong, has rendered the lived experiences of adoptive parents
Anita Kit‐Wa Chan +2 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Türkiye, there are very few studies examining the outcomes of children's homes, which are institutional care services where children/young people in need of protection are cared for, in terms of independent living. This study was designed in line with the question of how young people who have left these homes experience independent living ...
Özge Kelebek, Fatih Kucur
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Going In Style: Audio Backdoors Through Stylistic Transformations [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This work explores stylistic triggers for backdoor attacks in the audio domain: dynamic transformations of malicious samples through guitar effects. We first formalize stylistic triggers - currently missing in the literature. Second, we explore how to develop stylistic triggers in the audio domain by proposing JingleBack.
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Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.Introduction Black birthing people in the United States disproportionately endure inequitable experiences and outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth via structural, interpersonal, and obstetric racism. In this study, the researchers explore provider perspectives of how racism is perpetuated in institutional perinatal and reproductive health care ...
Tamara J. Nelson +3 more
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A Multi-View Approach To Audio-Visual Speaker Verification [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Although speaker verification has conventionally been an audio-only task, some practical applications provide both audio and visual streams of input. In these cases, the visual stream provides complementary information and can often be leveraged in conjunction with the acoustics of speech to improve verification performance.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We conducted a qualitative, real‐life study where we tracked the introduction, implementation, and use of a new AI technology in a company. We identified four distinct trust configurations among organizational members: full trust (high cognitive/high emotional), full distrust (low cognitive/low emotional), uncomfortable trust (high cognitive ...
Natalia Vuori +2 more
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Flexible Keyword Spotting based on Homogeneous Audio-Text Embedding [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Spotting user-defined/flexible keywords represented in text frequently uses an expensive text encoder for joint analysis with an audio encoder in an embedding space, which can suffer from heterogeneous modality representation (i.e., large mismatch) and increased complexity.
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Semantic Proximity Alignment: Towards Human Perception-consistent Audio Tagging by Aligning with Label Text Description [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Most audio tagging models are trained with one-hot labels as supervised information. However, one-hot labels treat all sound events equally, ignoring the semantic hierarchy and proximity relationships between sound events. In contrast, the event descriptions contains richer information, describing the distance between different sound events with ...
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European Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Well‐being development in young people's formative years is crucial for their transition to adulthood. While research on well‐being in formal education contexts is expanding, little attention has been paid to out‐of‐school educational settings, particularly supplementary tutoring for disadvantaged students. Adopting Sirgy's concept of positive
Kevin Wai Ho Yung, Scarlet Poon
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, Volume 132, Issue 6, Page 772-781, May 2025.ABSTRACT Objective To explore factors affecting participation of pregnant women in randomised clinical trials in Belagavi, Karnataka, India. Design A qualitative study using semi‐structured in‐depth interviews and focus group discussions as data collection methods.
Mridula Shankar +10 more
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