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Effect of stimulation rate on speech perception in adult users of the Med-El Combi 40+ and Ineraid cochlear implants
No full textAuditory localization abilities in bilateral cochlear implant recipients using the Nucleus 24 cochlear implant
No full textAn exploratory study into perception of acoustic speech cues by hearing-impaired adults
No full textThe aims of the present study were to assess discrimination and identification based on two classes of acoustic cue by adults with acquired sensorineural hearing impairment. Eight hearing-impaired and eight normally hearing adults were asked to identify and discriminate two different sets of speech stimuli. A plosive voicing continuum (coat/goat) varied in voice onset time. The plosive place of articulation continuum (date/gate) varied in burst spectra and second formant transition. Subjects were tested in the unaided condition with the exception of one hearing-impaired subject for whom speech was completely inaudible without a hearing aid. There was no significant between-group difference in discrimination or identification of the voicing contrast. There was no significant between-group difference in identification of stimuli varying by place of articulation. However, three of the eight hearing-impaired subjects were very poor at identification. The hearing-impaired subjects also showed significantly impaired place of articulation discrimination. Both measures were significantly correlated with threshold at 2000 Hz. The results support the view that hearing impairment can have different effects on perception of different acoustic contrasts and on different psychophysical tasks
A comparison of cochlear implant processing strategies in children using Speech Pattern Audiometry.
No full textThe aim of this study was to use Speech Pattern Audiometry (SPA) to compare phoneme perception performance between SPEAK and ACE processing strategies with children using the Nucleus 24 cochlear implant. Listeners were evaluated in terms of ability to identify two synthetic word pairs, one signalling a voicing contrast and the other signalling a place of articulation contrast. For both word pairs, ACE was associated with more normal phoneme boundaries than SPEAK. There was also a non-significant trend for better identification ability with ACE compared to SPEAK. The study suggests that there may be a place for SPA as part of the clinical battery of tests used for evaluation of cochlear implant speech processing strategies in children
Des hommes et des moustaches... Le combat pour la masculinité: travailleurs domestiques masculins, genre et migration en Italie de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours
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Sous le développement, le genre
No full textIgnorée, invisible, la question du genre reste cachée sous le développement. Et pourtant, comprendre le développement n’est pas possible sans une perspective de genre. Cet ouvrage, didactique, montre en quoi et comment le concept de genre permet de revisiter les études de développement. Le genre permet de comprendre la construction historique, sociale et culturelle des différences et des inégalités. Il offre des outils pour une analyse critique du système capitaliste globalisé. Le genre, inscrit dans le féminisme, permet aux catégories dominées et marginalisées, en particulier les femmes mais pas seulement, de faire entendre leurs voix. Dans le contexte actuel de crise globale et d'accroissement des inégalités, il propose des pistes pour renouveler la pensée sur le développement, mais aussi pour agir autrement. Combinant diverses disciplines et thématiques, cet ouvrage montre que la portée heuristique du genre ne se limite pas aux domaines habituellement considérés comme féminins (l'éducation, la famille, le social, la santé de la reproduction, etc.) mais s'étend à tous les domaines (le politique, le droit, la sécurité, la diplomatie, l'économie, etc.). Ce livre met aussi en évidence la diversité et l'enrichissement mutuel des diverses traditions de recherche entre le monde francophone, anglophone et hispanophone. Il s'adresse particulièrement aux étudiant-es, chercheur-es et enseignant-es, militant-es, chargé-es de programme dans des organisations de coopération et représentant-es des pouvoirs publics au Nord et au Sud
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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