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From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Listening Effort During Sentence Processing Is Increased for Non-native Listeners: A Pupillometry Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
Current evidence demonstrates that even though some non-native listeners can achieve native-like performance for speech perception tasks in quiet, the presence of a background noise is much more detrimental to speech intelligibility for non-native ...
Giulia Borghini, Valerie Hazan
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of High- and Low-Filtered Noise on Intelligibility of Filtered Speech [PDF]

, 1965
Sadanand Singh, Sonia P. Brokaw, James E. Fricke   +2 more
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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London Public multiple : organisation des communautés et politique fractale dans l'est de Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of interior aircraft noise on speech intelligibility and annoyance [PDF]

Recordings of the aircraft ambiance from ten different types of aircraft were used in conjunction with four distinct speech interference tests as stimuli to determine the effects of interior aircraft background levels and speech intelligibility on ...
Bennett, R. L., Pearsons, K. S.
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Intelligibility of Tissue-Conducted Speech Signals [PDF]

, 1961
Herbert J. Oyer
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligibility of Frequency-Shifted Speech [PDF]

, 1963
W. H. Darnall, Jens Birch
openalex   +1 more source

INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more‐than‐human, cyber‐physical and the neurotechnical—we trace how infrastructures are no longer confined to traditional networked systems but instead permeate and co‐compose ...
Simon Marvin, Colin Mcfarlane, Jonathan Rutherford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Further Studies of the Intelligibility of Alternated Speech [PDF]

, 1967
George W. Hughes, Arthur S. House, David P. Goldstein, John A. Rupf   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source