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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of Successful Learning in Multilingual Older Adults Acquiring a Majority Language

Frontiers in Communication, 2017
Understanding language learning in later life can elucidate how linguistic experiences and age-specific cognitive skills can be leveraged for language acquisition, providing insight into how lifelong experiences configure our learning capacity.
Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Sim J. R. Quinzon, Cindy Alsol, Cindy Alsol, Stephanie A. Riera   +4 more
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Using photovoice to understand community perceptions of firearm risks and protective factors among Asian Americans

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu, Szu‐Hsien Chen, Xining Yang, Ken Resnicow, Hsing‐Fang Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Brazilian scientific journals in speech-language and hearing science: impact indicator].

Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica, 2006
Global value of scientific papers published in national journals of the Brazilian Speech-language and Hearing Science analyzed through the Impact Factor (IF).To analyze part of the Brazilian Speech-Language and Hearing Science through its scientific journals: characterization of the impact indicator--in this case the Impact Factor (IF).
Heliane, Campanatti-Ostiz, Claudia Regina Furquim, de Andrade   +1 more
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Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
wiley   +1 more source

MRA and Doppler ultrasound of laryngeal blood flow under hormonal and hydration modulation

BMC Research Notes
Objective Phonation is a complex process requiring an appropriate tissue environment of the vocal folds, with laryngeal blood flow serving as one factor that contributes to tissue homeostasis.
Taylor W. Bailey, Niharika Narra, Naila Cannes do Nascimento, M. Preeti Sivasankar, Craig J. Goergen, Abigail Cox   +5 more
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Audiovisual Integration in Cued Speech Perception: Impact on Speech Recognition in Quiet and Noise Among Adults With Hearing Loss and Those With Typical Hearing

International audiencePurpose: This study aimed to investigate audiovisual (AV) integration of cued speech (CS) gestures with the auditory input presented in quiet and amidst noise while controlling for visual speech decoding.
Schwartz, Jean-Luc, Vilain, Coriandre, Caron, Cora Jirschik, Leybaert, Jacqueline, Colin, Cécile   +4 more
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The speech processing skills of children with cochlear implants [PDF]

, 2008
Thesis (MSL and HT (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.This study aims to describe the speech processing skills of three children ages 6;0, 6;10 and 8; 10, with cochlear implants.
Pieterse-Randall, Candice
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source