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The Impact of Climate Change on Air Quality: the 4th ACCENT Barnsdale Expert Workshop [PDF]
, 2008 Climate change is already upon us – the first 2007 IPCC Scientific Report provides near certainty that it is happening together with ample evidence to show that it is induced by human activities.
Feichter, Johann +5 more
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Speech in the foreign accent syndrome: differential diagnosis between organic and functional cases
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2020 . Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is an extremely rare disorder, with 112 cases described until 2019. We compare two cases of the foreign accent syndrome in native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese in its classic form (FAS) and psychiatric variant (FALS ...
Simone dos Santos Barreto +1 more
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Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions [PDF]
, 2009 This study aimed to determine the relative processing cost associated with comprehension of an unfamiliar native accent under adverse listening conditions. Two sentence verification experiments were conducted in which listeners heard sentences at various
Stuart-Smith, J. +3 more
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Behavioural Neurology, 2011 Multiple reports have described patients with disordered articulation and prosody, often following acute aphasia, dysarthria, or apraxia of speech, which results in the perception by listeners of a foreign-like accent.
Harrison N. Jones +4 more
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Languages, 2020 The present study examines the perceived L1 accent of two groups of native Spaniards in the United Kingdom, Spanish teachers, and non-teachers, alongside monolingual controls in Spain.
Robert Mayr +2 more
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‘Guide and Prejudice’— How Argonautes recognize targets across domains of life
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Argonaute proteins use short nucleic‐acid guides to locate and regulate specific targets across all domains of life. Despite striking diversity—from human gene silencing to bacterial immune defence—all Argonautes share a conserved three‐stage recognition logic: guide‐directed sampling, progressive target pairing with a conformational checkpoint and ...
Jack P. K. Bravo
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Eyes Wide Open: Pupillary Response to a Foreign Accent Varying in Intelligibility
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 This study examines listening effort, as indexed by pupil dilation, needed for processing foreign-accented speech that varies in intelligibility. Previous research has shown that the magnitude of pupil dilation is influenced by various factors, crucially
Vincent Porretta, Benjamin V. Tucker
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Emblem Gestures Improve Perception and Evaluation of Non-native Speech
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Traditionally, much of the attention on the communicative effects of non-native accent has focused on the accent itself rather than how it functions within a more natural context.
Kiana Billot-Vasquez +9 more
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Psycho-Social Constraints on Naturalistic Adult Second Language Acquisition
Languages, 2021 The following study investigated a rare case of adult immersion in a second language context without prior exposure to the language. It aimed to investigate whether Length of Residence (LoR) acts as a strong index of L2 speech performance when coupled ...
Azza Al-Kendi, Ghada Khattab
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary +1 more
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