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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel +5 more
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Migrations of highlands inhabitants of southeast Serbia to Zaječar and its surroundings: an example of permanent higlands-to-lowlands migration [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019 Higlands-to-lowlands migrations are typical of the Balkan peninsula. This type of migration lasted for the last two centuries and in the beginning it was seasonal, comprising mainly workforce, but in later stages it became permanent.
Krstić Dejan
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Model Villages and Village Realities [PDF]
Modern China, 1983 This article is a partial exploration of the relevance and usefulness of "models" for rural development in China. Dating back to the days of the Border Regions and guerrilla bases of the 1930s, the Chinese Communist Party has publicized the advanced (xianjin) and the model (mofan) units, rewarding them symbolically and materially, and holding them up ...
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Assessing outgroup prejudice among 13–15-year-old students attending Catholic and Protestant secondary schools in Northern Ireland : an empirical enquiry [PDF]
, 2015 Northern Ireland has been and remains a religiously divided community. This study sets out to examine outgroup prejudice among a sample of 1799 13–15-year-old students attending Catholic or Protestant schools and employs both bivariate analyses and ...
Francis, Leslie J., Village, Andrew
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The effect of moving to East Village, the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Athletes' Village, on mode of travel (ENABLE London study, a natural experiment) [PDF]
, 2020 Background Interventions to encourage active modes of travel (walking, cycling) may improve physical activity levels, but longitudinal evidence is limited and major change in the built environment / travel infrastructure may be needed. East Village (the
Clary, C +15 more
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International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView.This paper proposes two projector‐based Hopfield neural network (HNN) estimators for online, constrained parameter estimation under time‐varying data, additive disturbances, and slowly drifting physical parameters. The first is a constraint‐aware HNN that enforces linear equalities and inequalities (via slack neurons) and continuously tracks the ...
Miguel Pedro Silva
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Indicators for managing human centred manufacturing [PDF]
, 2013 Establishing indicators for managing human factors (HF) aspects in the design of production systems remains a challenge. We address the problem in two dimensions – firstly, what aspects of HF are to be considered, and secondly, where in the development ...
Greig, Michael +3 more
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Village economies and the structure of extended family networks [PDF]
, 2009 This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we construct within-village extended family networks in 504 poor ...
Angelucci, M. +3 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The release of foulers from protective marine coatings is determined by several interrelated material properties, including the strength of Young's modulus, the flexibility of chain segments, the surface free energy, and the magnitude of hydrodynamic stress.
Johann C. Schaal +2 more
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Assessing the effectiveness of a longitudinal knowledge dissemination intervention: Sharing research findings in rural South Africa [PDF]
, 2017 Knowledge dissemination interventions (KDIs) are integral to knowledge brokerage activities in research as part of the ethics of practice, but are seldom evaluated. In this case study, we critically reflect on an annual KDI as part of knowledge brokerage
Kahn, Kathleen +2 more
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