Speech-based personality prediction using deep learning with acoustic and linguistic embeddings by Martin Lukac

“…Using pre-trained convolutional neural networks and transformer-based models, we extracted embeddings representing both acoustic features (e.g., tone, pitch, rhythm) and linguistic content from the speech samples. …”
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Être correspondant régional en Tunisie : De l’aliénation au pouvoir à la liberté totale by Hamida El Bour

“…The coverage of the local events was far from the rules of the proximity journalism which is based on journalistic practice that reflect the reality of the people and their daily life problems. …”
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SPIRITUALITY AS PASSIONS OF THE HEART. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY INTO THE CHARACTER, CORE VALUES AND EFFECTS OF THE PASSIONS OF THE HEART OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS by C.A.M. Hermans, L. Kornet

“…The authors distinguish four different lines of research in this area and position their approach of the “passions of the heart” as a meta-intentional feeling for what is good and satisfying, which we derive from a phenomenological theory of feeling by Stephan Strasser (1977). …”
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A Multiple-Classifier Framework for Parkinson’s Disease Detection Based on Various Vocal Tests by Mahnaz Behroozi, Ashkan Sami

“…For this purpose, several datasets of voice samples exist; the UCI dataset named “Parkinson Speech Dataset with Multiple Types of Sound Recordings” has a variety of vocal tests, which include sustained vowels, words, numbers, and short sentences compiled from a set of speaking exercises for healthy and people with Parkinson’s disease (PWP). …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…During his first lecture, the Yoruba elder asked his audience, “Why are we people afraid to go to the burial ground at night?” …”
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The Potential of Digital Storytelling as an Ethnographic Research Technique in Social Sciences by Oğuz Hatice Şule

“…I experienced a number of difficulties in conducting a field research with a sensitive (disadvantaged) group of people such as the asylum seekers. the other is the digital storytelling workshop entitled When I was in the field: Digital Stories from Young Academic Women . …”
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Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

“…In contrast, those from East-Asian cultures rely more on voices. This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whether common features of migration produce a similar modification regardless of the destination.MethodsWe examined how immigrants from Western countries to Japan perceive emotional expressions from faces and voices using MRI scanning.ResultsImmigrants behaviorally exhibited a decrease in the influence of emotions in voices with a longer stay in Japan. …”
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Strengthening public health education and humanitarian response through academic volunteerism by Faiza Rab, Mekdes Assefa, Salim Sohani, Ilja Ormel, Farwa Arshad, Ahmad Firas Khalid

“…The collaboration between CRC and academic volunteers contributed to educational enrichment, professional development, knowledge transfer, operational efficiency, and talent pool expansion. Results from a survey on academic volunteerism further highlighted benefits such as maintaining project schedules, promoting diversity, and amplifying the Movement’s voice on important matters. …”
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Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of comparing enhanced acceptance and commitment therapy plus (+) added to usual aftercare versus usual aftercare only, in... by Imran Khan, Stephanie J. C. Taylor, Clare Robinson, Elisavet Moschopoulou, Paul McCrone, Liam Bourke, Mohamed Thaha, Kamaldeep Bhui, Derek Rosario, Damien Ridge, Sheila Donovan, Ania Korszun, Paul Little, Adrienne Morgan, Olivier Quentin, Rebecca Roylance, Peter White, Trudie Chalder

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Accepting your Body after Cancer (ABC), a group-based online intervention for women treated for breast cancer: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Sarah Byford, Abigail Jones, Shelley Potter, Paul White, Diana Harcourt, Helena Lewis-Smith, Patricia Fairbrother

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Journal of Health and Social Sciences: A reputable, DOAJ-indexed, free, open access journal by Francesco Chirico

“…In a time when it is difficult to give voice to voiceless people, JHSS provides room for discussions and views from researchers from poor and disadvantages countries on issues that have a significant health impact on all people, from climate change to other themes in global public health. …”
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La poésie lyrique, un outil d’unification linguistique et politique by Anne-Marie Le Baillif

“…The same phenomenon took place in the nineteenth century, after the French Revolution in 1789, when poets were needed to bring the people together during a period of inspiration that drew them away from violence. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…But we do not want those same guarantees to become fetters on future generations, preventing them from exercising the same rights of sovereignty we enjoy. …”
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Memória coletiva de culturas do Nordeste by Domingos Sávio de Almeida Cordeiro

“…Considering Juazeiro do Norte, in the state of Ceará, as a field of empirical approach, this study is based on the notion that in order to know an area in a social, cultural, and geographical sense, it is necessary to know the experiences of its people. The article discusses the social memories of the Northeast from narrators of Padre Cicero. …”
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Laguna de fracasos by Lagunaries

“…A practice that does not yet have a name, a performance that is always provisional, weaving voices and actions through listening and activating our own and other people’s writings. …”
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