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Iron Ore Pricing in China: Financialization Through a Marxist Lens
We offer a Marxist interpretation of financialization as we examine the Chinese market for iron ore and the shift in the pricing mechanism from an annual fixed price to an indexed price from 2010. Drawing upon Marx's theory of the circuit of capital, we illustrate an empirical case of financialization that results from the conflict between social ...
Xun Gong, Eagle Zhang, Corinne Cortese
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Detecting deception from face and voice
In every day life, when we feel being deceived by someone, we pay attention to his/her facial expression and tone of voice. Three experiments were carried out by using undergraduate students.
YAMAGUCHI, Masami, 山口, 真美
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Impersonal, General and Social: The use of metonymy versus passive voice in medical discourse
The impersonalizing role passive voice plays in scientific discourse is well known. Analysis of the Methods sections of nine medical research articles shows that metonymy is another frequent strategy used to create anonymous authors/agents.
Rundblad, Gabriella
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Abstract Background and aims Public perceptions of alcohol and its related harms and policies are shaped by multiple discourses and can influence behaviour and policy support. As part of a FrameWorks‐informed project to test framing approaches to improve public understanding and support for evidence‐based alcohol policies in the UK, this research aimed
Niamh Fitzgerald +12 more
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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The disguised voice: imitating accents or speech styles and impersonating individuals
In this chapter we have seen how various types of disguise may affect both the recognition of a speaker by voice and discrimination between unfamiliar speakers.
Eriksson, Anders,
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The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification
Abstract While many Americans identify as politically “independent,” conventional wisdom suggests most are covert partisans, especially “leaners.” However, we argue that independents exhibit distinct attitudes toward political parties. Analyzing American National Election Studies open‐ended responses from 1984 to 2020, we employ structural topic models
Maxwell B. Allamong +3 more
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Multi-Frame Rate Based Multiple-Model Training for Robust Speaker Identification of Disguised Voice
Speaker identification systems are prone to attack when voice disguise is adopted by the user. To address this issue,our paper studies the effect of using different frame rates on the accuracy of the speaker identification system for disguised voice.In ...
Tan, Zheng-Hua; id_orcid +2 more
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Benefit of own voice in Cantonese-English Bilinguals
In the domain of voice processing, a large body of evidence suggests that people process their own voices differently from others’ voices (Hughes & Harrison, 2013; Mitterer et al., 2020; Peng et al., 2019) and a recent study suggests this difference in
Cheung, Sarah
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