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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

The Voice and Voice Culture

open access: yesBengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, 2014
Voice may be regarded as the first instrument of man because mankind was endowed with voice even before the invention of instruments. It is a universal instrument of music.
Eshita Chakraborty, Debasis Barman
doaj  

Full-Band Quasi-Harmonic Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds with Adaptive Sinusoids

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2016
Sinusoids are widely used to represent the oscillatory modes of musical instrument sounds in both analysis and synthesis. However, musical instrument sounds feature transients and instrumental noise that are poorly modeled with quasi-stationary sinusoids,
Marcelo Caetano   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learner emotions and performance in hypercasual VR games with adaptive AI difficulty

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Hypercasual virtual reality games (HVRGs) are widely regarded as cost‐effective tools for rapid skill acquisition, yet the mechanisms that optimise their effectiveness and user acceptance remain insufficiently explored. This mixed‐methods empirical study investigates how playful emotions, characterised by engagement, enjoyment and anxiety ...
Zeeshan Ahmed, Faizan Ahmad, Chen Hui
wiley   +1 more source

Frequency and associated factors of instrument-specific dermatoses among musicians in a military band: A cross-sectional study

open access: yesJournal of Marine Medical Society, 2018
Background and Aim: Continual contact with musical instruments may cause distinctive skin conditions among musicians. The site and degree of contact with the instrument may determine the type of presentation, further influenced by the amount of time ...
Jandhyala Sridhar, Rahul Ray
doaj   +1 more source

A microtonal wind controller building on Yamaha’s technology to facilitate the performance of music based on the “19-EDO” scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We describe a project in which several collaborators adapted an existing instrument to make it capable of playing expressively in music based on the microtonal scale characterised by equal divsion of the octave into 19 tones (“19-EDO”).
Bailey, Nicholas   +3 more
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The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The study used descriptive and multivariate statistics analytical methods to explore relationships between the highest level of education expected by 15‐year‐old Romanian students and factors associated with student background (personal and academic), school characteristics and selected beliefs and social–emotional skills.
Camelia Truța   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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