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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural mechanisms for selectively tuning in to the target speaker in a naturalistic noisy situation

Nature Communications, 2018
When many people are speaking, e.g. at a party, we can selectively attend to just one speaker. Here, using ‘hyperscanning’, the authors show that interpersonal neural synchronization is selectively increased between a listener and the attended speaker ...
Bohan Dai, Chuansheng Chen, Yuhang Long, Lifen Zheng, Hui Zhao, Xialu Bai, Wenda Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Li Liu, Taomei Guo, Guosheng Ding, Chunming Lu   +11 more
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Binaural Cues for Distance and Direction of Nearby Sound Sources [PDF]

, 1999
To a first-order approximation, binaural localization cues are ambiguous: a number of source locations give rise to nearly the same interaural differences.
Kopco, Norbert, Santarelli, Scott, Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara   +2 more
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Complexity as Process: Complexity Inspired Approaches to Composition [PDF]

, 2010
This article examines the use of Complexity Theory as an inspiration for the creation of new musical works, and highlights problems and possible solutions associated with its application as a compositional tool.
Baker, Benjamin, Bertuglia, Bourriaud, Burnham, Burnham, Cage, De Oliveira, Dourish, Eco, Hamman, Impett, Johnson, Kaprow, LaBelle, Reich, Tom Davis   +16 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of long talker-to-listener distance on temporal properties of speech [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
Speech exhibits robust temporal characteristics, including syllable duration and the speech modulation spectrum. In real-world scenarios, speech is often exchanged over long distances.
Minhui Zhang, Jing Wang, Yuran Zhang, Max A. Wolpert, Nai Ding   +4 more
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating trustworthiness across ethnically diverse human and commercial synthesised voices: A comparative study

Computers in Human Behavior Reports
This study examined trustworthiness perceptions in the tone of voice of human and real-world synthesised voices, focusing on the impact of acoustic features, speaker and listener ethnicities, listener biases toward voice-based intelligent agents and ...
Constantina Maltezou-Papastylianou, Reinhold Scherer, Silke Paulmann   +2 more
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Tove Janssons Lyssnerskan

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2020
Tove Jansson’s Lyssnerskan (The Listener), Seeing and Moral Attention The Finland-Swedish author and artist Tove Jansson (1914–2001) is most famous for her Moomin books, but she has also written several books for adults.
Hanna Lahdenperä
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Esthétique et performativité de la race dans « Créature ratée » de Casey

Itinéraires, 2021
This article examines how the aesthetic particularities of rap music can stage social power dynamics. It analyzes the song “Créature ratée” by the rapper Casey at the level of its lyrics, vocal performance, instrumental, live performance, and music video
Emily Q. Shuman
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