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Widening participation and the changing risks of higher education: Working‐class women's pathways via access courses across two decades

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) remains a central concern within UK educational and social policy. It seeks to address the underrepresentation of specific social groups by tailoring university access to their distinct needs.
Sarah McLaughlin, Richard Waller
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived benefits and risks of using virtual voice assistants

Virtualni glasovni asistenti softverski su programi koji koriste tehnologiju obrade prirodnog jezika kako bi korisnicima omogućili interakciju putem govora radi izvršavanja zadataka, pružanja informacija ili pružanja usluga.
Hasanbegović, Emina
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Global Trends in Inclusive and Assistive Education for Students with Disabilities: A Review of International Practices

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные науки
The review features the latest global trends in new technological solutions in the field of education for students with disabilities. It describes the best global practices that can be implemented by Russian schools and universities.
Ostrovskiy Anton, Pyatkina Ekaterina, Poroshina Angelina   +2 more
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Speech Emotion Recognition Method Based on Support Vector Machine and Suprasegmental Acoustic Features

Доклады Белорусского государственного университета информатики и радиоэлектроники
The problem of recognizing emotions in a speech signal using mel-frequency cepstral coefficients using a classifier based on the support vector machine has been studied. The RAVDESS data set was used in the experiments.
D. V. Krasnoproshin, M. I. Vashkevich
doaj   +1 more source

Protein thermal stability in the undergraduate biochemistry laboratory: Exploring protein thermal stability with yeast alcohol dehydrogenase

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 209-217, March/April 2025.
Abstract We created a novel laboratory experience where undergraduate students explore the techniques used to study protein misfolding, unfolding, and aggregation. Despite the importance of protein misfolding and aggregation diseases, protein unfolding is not typically explored in undergraduate biochemistry laboratory classes.
Alison Bates, Kathryn M. Williams, Ann E. Hagerman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human-machine in the vortex of digital synergy

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study explores whether experience with AI tools and the intensity of their use influence individuals’ adoption of ChatGPT in the Czech Republic. Using data from 1232 respondents (aged 15+), collected via a quota-based online survey from April 8 to ...
Vaclav Moravec, Beata Gavurova, Nik Hynek, Martin Rigelsky   +3 more
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Cultivating Collaboration in BioMolViz: Key Attributes for Building a STEM Educator Community of Practice

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT BioMolViz is an educational community of practice (CoP) focused on creating resources to improve biomolecular visual literacy instruction and assessment. The community of life science instructors developed in three phases, beginning with a small Core Team that emerged from a conference session and established the domain of interest for the CoP.
Pamela S. Mertz, Charmita Burch, Roderico Acevedo, Josh T. Beckham, Didem Vardar‐Ulu, Kristin M. Fox, Lauren A. Genova, Rachel M. Mitton‐Fry, Swati Agrawal, Daniel R. Dries, Kristen Procko   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining Virtual and Robot Assistants - A Case Study about Integrating Amazon's Alexa as a Voice Interface in Robotics [PDF]

, 2018
Virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant increasingly find ways to enter our homes and everyday lives, where they serve as powerful human-machine interfaces to control devices through natural language. In this work, we explore
Krieger, Rolf, PLAPPER, Peter, Gerke, Wolfgang, JUNGBLUTH, Jan   +3 more
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Voice clones sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic.

PLoS ONE
AI-generated voices are increasingly prevalent in our lives, via virtual assistants, automated customer service, and voice-overs. With increased availability and affordability of AI-generated voices, we need to examine how humans perceive them. Recently,
Nadine Lavan, Mairi Irvine, Victor Rosi, Carolyn McGettigan   +3 more
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Gender and Accent Biases in AI-Based Tools for Spanish: A Comparative Study between Alexa and Whisper

Applied Sciences
Considering previous research indicating the presence of biases based on gender and accent in AI-based tools such as virtual assistants or automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, this paper examines these potential biases in both Alexa and Whisper ...
Eduardo Nacimiento-García, Holi Sunya Díaz-Kaas-Nielsen, Carina S. González-González   +2 more
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