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Enrichment of Oesophageal Speech: Voice Conversion with Duration–Matched Synthetic Speech as Target

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Pathological speech such as Oesophageal Speech (OS) is difficult to understand due to the presence of undesired artefacts and lack of normal healthy speech characteristics.
Sneha Raman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The doctoral journey as decolonial praxis: Self‐formation of Global South students in UK higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research concerning Global South doctoral students in the United Kingdom has mainly situated their experiences within adaptationist paradigms, emphasising cultural adjustment and assimilation into Western academic norms. Such studies often depict students as passive recipients, overlooking their agency and the transformative potential
Peng Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
wiley   +1 more source

A Discussion of the Ins and Outs of L2 Pronunciation Instruction: A Clash of Methodologies

open access: yesAna Dili Eğitimi Dergisi, 2018
The value attached to pronunciation has kept changing continually in the methodological history of language instruction. Depending on the nature of methodological considerations that dominated research and teaching agenda, it either received too much ...
Arif Bakla, Mehmet Demirezen
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison between Predictive and Measurement Methods of Speech Intelligibility for Educational Rooms of Different Sizes with and without HVAC Systems

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems represent one of the main noise sources inside classrooms. This explain why HVAC systems require careful design, competent installation and balancing, and regular maintenance. Many factors influence
Samantha Di Loreto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligence

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 1994
AbstractIntelligence is the ability to learn from past experience and, in general, to adapt to, shape, and select environments. Aspects of intelligence are measured by standardized tests of intelligence. Average raw (number‐correct) scores on such tests vary across the life span and also across generations, as well as across ethnic and socioeconomic ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Reframing the Architecture of Climate‐Related Knowledge: Beyond Disclosure, Toward Strategic Translation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change has generated an unprecedented expansion of disclosure frameworks, metrics, and governance instruments intended to inform corporate strategy. Yet firms continue to differ markedly in how climate‐related knowledge is interpreted, prioritized, and embedded in decision‐making. This paper addresses this paradox by shifting attention
Giuseppe Modaffari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligibility in Microbial Complex Systems:Wittgenstein and the Score of Life

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2012
Knowledge in microbiology is reaching an extreme level of diversification and complexity, which paradoxically results in a strong reduction in the intelligibility of microbial life.
Fernando eBaquero, Andres eMoya
doaj   +1 more source

The Corporate Sustainability Puzzle: From Additive Frameworks to the Dynamic Sustainability System (DSS)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability research is rich but fragmented where influential frameworks illuminate important aspects of sustainability dynamics, yet they are often used in parallel rather than connected through a shared explanatory logic of change. This paper addresses that corporate sustainability puzzle through a targeted literature review and
Omaima A. G. Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

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