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Development Through Empowerment: Delivering Effective Public Services - A Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service delivery, particularly in developing Asia.
Xu, Guo
core   +2 more sources

Qualidade de vida em voz, avaliação perceptivoauditiva e análise acústica da voz de professoras com queixas vocais

open access: yesAudiology: Communication Research
Objetivo Correlacionar a qualidade de vida em voz (QVV), avaliação vocal perceptivoauditiva e acústica de professoras com queixas vocais. Métodos Participaram do estudo 74 professoras com idades entre 20 e 62 anos (média 38,75 anos).
Carla Aparecida Cielo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pediatric voice-related quality of life and acoustic analysis of voice: a study in schoolchildren

open access: yesRevista CEFAC, 2021
Purpose: to assess the self-reported voice-related quality of life of schoolchildren without voice complaints and correlate it to acoustic parameters of voice. Methods: the research population comprised 31 children, mean age 6.5 (±0.17) years.
Suelene Cibelle Silva dos Reis   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Morphological aspects of the euphonic voice

open access: yesFolia Histochemica et Cytobiologica, 2011
The high quality of a euphonic voice is the result of complex interactions between many organs and systems. Vibrating vocal folds play a crucial role in this process.
Joanna Kasperuk   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

Análise da qualidade vocal antes e após o uso profissional e social da voz

open access: yesAudiology: Communication Research
Objetivo Analisar, do ponto de vista perceptivo-auditivo, os efeitos do uso profissional e social da voz na qualidade vocal de mulheres, em um intervalo de tempo de duas horas e 30 minutos.
Amanda Nocce Aragão   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voice and Voice Quality

open access: yes, 2020
The sound of a voice—its quality—plays an integral role in the biological and social existences of animal species ranging from frogs to birds to elephants to primates and humans. Across animal species, voice plays a part in many, many aspects of behavior, including mate selection and attraction, social organization, identification of parent/child ...
openaire   +1 more source

Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dimension esthétique des voix normales et dysphoniques : Approches perceptive et acoustique

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2012
Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in acoustic cues, that allow evaluating voice quality and its degradation in order to obtain a diagnosis and to analyze the effects of a therapy.
Melissa Barkat-Defradas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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