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Auditory–Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this work, we explore auditory–tactile congruence for synthesizing adaptive vocal pain expressions in robopatients. Using a robopatient platform that integrates vocal pain sounds with palpation forces, we conducted 7680 trials across 20 participants.
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Fumiya Iida, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne   +4 more
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
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The Impact of Listening Strategy on Listening Comprehension

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2012
Successful FL learners are characterized by knowing how to use language learning strategies effectively. This article reports a study of the effect of strategy training on listening comprehension. In the study, 56 intermediate foreign language learners at Shandong Economic College were either participants in a strategies-based instructional treatment ...
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Teaching listening strategies

, 2018
This entry takes as its starting point the notion that listening in a second language is a skill that learners find difficult to acquire and teachers find difficult to teach.
Suzanne Graham, Graham, Suzanne
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Resource‐Aware Contrastive Scattering Meta‐Learning for Efficient Few‐Shot Acoustic Anomaly Detection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This paper introduces a resource‐aware Contrastive Scattering Meta‐Learning (CSML) framework for acoustic anomaly detection. By leveraging training‐free wavelet scattering and metric‐based meta‐learning, the model achieves competitive performance with only 50 K learnable parameters—a 98% reduction compared to state‐of‐the‐art frameworks—enabling ...
Rami Zewail, Bassem Mokhtar
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Strategy Instruction on Iraqi EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension and Metacognitive Strategy Use [PDF]

Mextesol Journal, 2020
This study examined the impact of process-based listening strategy instruction on Iraqi EFL learners' listening comprehension and their metacognitive awareness of listening strategies.
Hussein Ghanim Al-Shammari
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Strategies and Predictors of EFL Listening Comprehension [PDF]

, 2017
The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of two methods for teaching listening comprehension – the cognitive strategy-based instruction method (CSBM) and the metacognitive strategy-based instruction method (MetSBM). Additionally, this study aims to evaluate the way in which three co-variables – vocabulary knowledge (VK), word recognition (
Dimassi, Abdelfattah, Journal AWEJ, Arab
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
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The impacts of rhetorical schema on English majors’ listening comprehension in academic situations at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology And Education

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences, 2017
Listening is a basic language skill which involves the interaction of diverse factors affecting learners’ listening comprehension. Learners often encounter various difficulties in listening to an oral text with a little knowledge of the reasons why it ...
Le Thi Kim Thu, Nguyen Thanh Tung
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Exploring the relationship between listening self-efficacy and metacognitive awareness of listening strategies [PDF]

, 2022
Many language experts and researcher emphasised the crucial awareness and intervention to accentuate listening comprehension. However, listening skill is the least prominent and seldom tackled compared to other language skills. Listening is the key to an
Nur Anneliza Abd Latip, Wardatul Akmam Din, Suyansah Swanto   +2 more
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