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Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The most recent British census was the first to elicit transgender identity. The 2021 Census of England and Wales asked ‘Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?’. It is has been argued that this formulation confused a substantial number of respondents who erroneously answered in the negative.
Michael Biggs
wiley   +1 more source

Speech intelligibility in various spatial configurations of background noise

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2005
This study is concerned with the influence of spatial separation of disturbing sources of noise on the speech intelligibility. Spatial separation of speech and disturbing sources without changing their acoustic power may contribute to the ...
J. Kociński, A. Sęk
doaj  

Effects of Noise Reduction on Speech Intelligibility, Perceived Listening Effort, and Personal Preference in Hearing-Impaired Listeners

open access: yesTrends in Hearing, 2014
This study evaluates the perceptual effects of single-microphone noise reduction in hearing aids. Twenty subjects with moderate sensorineural hearing loss listened to speech in babble noise processed via noise reduction from three different linearly ...
Inge Brons   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental dysarthria in a young adult with cerebral palsy : a speech subsystems analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The speech of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and dysarthria is associated with limited breath control, voice quality changes and imprecise articulation.
Kuschmann, Anja, Neill, Rebecca
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Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perspectives on neoliberal political‐economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to ‘society’. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the ‘neoliberal revolution’, claiming that, when ‘the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience’, commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and ...
Jan Dobbernack
wiley   +1 more source

“We know nothing except fishing”: Fishing bans under China’s ecological civilisation

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
The slogan on the photo reads, “Banning fishing for now will benefit fishery forever”. The ten‐year Fishing Ban in China’s Yangtze River is unprecedented in scale and intensity. This article uncovers the fishing ban through the narrative of ecological civilisation and its impact on retired fisherpeople.
Mengyao Li, Qi Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of intelligibility in children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate different aspects of intelligibility in children and to develop reliable and valid methods for assessment.
Lagerberg, Tove B.
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