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Author: Bud Mikhitarian
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1937612937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vital record of the lives and testimony of brave people who have come out of the shadows of anonymity.
Author: Elizabeth Boosahda
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0292783132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back at more than one hundred years of the Arab-American community is especially timely. In this book, Elizabeth Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants. Boosahda focuses on the Arab-American community in Worcester, Massachusetts, a major northeastern center for Arab immigration, and Worcester's links to and similarities with Arab-American communities throughout North and South America. Using the voices of Arab immigrants and their families, she explores their entire experience, from emigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day lives of their descendants. This rich documentation sheds light on many aspects of Arab-American life, including the Arab entrepreneurial motivation and success, family life, education, religious and community organizations, and the role of women in initiating immigration and the economic success they achieved.
Author: American Council of Teachers of Russian
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780787205041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pascal Belin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1461435854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book follows a successful symposium organized in June 2009 at the Human Brain Mapping conference. The topic is at the crossroads of two domains of increasing importance and appeal in the neuroimaging/neuroscience community: multi-modal integration, and social neuroscience. Most of our social interactions involve combining information from both the face and voice of other persons: speech information, but also crucial nonverbal information on the person’s identity and affective state. The cerebral bases of the multimodal integration of speech have been intensively investigated; by contrast only few studies have focused on nonverbal aspects of face-voice integration. This work highlights recent advances in investigations of the behavioral and cerebral bases of face-voice multimodal integration in the context of person perception, focusing on the integration of affective and identity information. Several research domains are brought together. Behavioral and neuroimaging work in normal adult humans included are presented alongside evidence from other domains to provide complementary perspectives: studies in human children for a developmental perspective, studies in non-human primates for an evolutionary perspective, and studies in human clinical populations for a clinical perspective. Several research domains are brought together. Behavioral and neuroimaging work in normal adult humans included are presented alongside evidence from other domains to provide complementary perspectives: studies in human children for a developmental perspective, studies in non-human primates for an evolutionary perspective, and studies in human clinical populations for a clinical perspective. Several research domains are brought together. Behavioral and neuroimaging work in normal adult humans included are presented alongside evidence from other domains to provide complementary perspectives: studies in human children for a developmental perspective, studies in non-human primates for an evolutionary perspective, and studies in human clinical populations for a clinical perspective. Several research domains are brought together. Behavioral and neuroimaging work in normal adult humans included are presented alongside evidence from other domains to provide complementary perspectives: studies in human children for a developmental perspective, studies in non-human primates for an evolutionary perspective, and studies in human clinical populations for a clinical perspective.
Author: Esther C. Alexander
Publisher: Faces & Voices
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1436309824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaces & Voices is a collection of all of the author’s works, including all of the original poems from her other book, Faces. This anthology is more varied with more diverse themes but its core remains the same. She believes we are children of time who make our marks with different faces and voices, which we should not judge by first impressions. Based on inspiration, observation and imagination, Alexander’s poetry vary from soft, gentle words of encouragement to the other extreme words of frustration and anger. Experience the raw emotions as they explode through the pages as you see, hear, vent, relax and enjoy the wonderful poems of Faces &Voices. Get a copy of this fantastic book and learn to appreciate each other’s differences!
Author: Li Gong
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linsey Lee
Publisher: Past with Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780966525311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sascha Frühholz
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 977
ISBN-13: 0198743181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpeech perception has been the focus of innumerable studies over the past decades. While our abilities to recognize individuals by their voice state plays a central role in our everyday social interactions, limited scientific attention has been devoted to the perceptual and cerebral mechanisms underlying nonverbal information processing in voices. The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception takes a comprehensive look at this emerging field and presents a selection of current research in voice perception. The forty chapters summarise the most exciting research from across several disciplines covering acoustical, clinical, evolutionary, cognitive, and computational perspectives. In particular, this handbook offers an invaluable window into the development and evolution of the 'vocal brain', and considers in detail the voice processing abilities of non-human animals or human infants. By providing a full and unique perspective on the recent developments in this burgeoning area of study, this text is an important and interdisciplinary resource for students, researchers, and scientific journalists interested in voice perception.
Author: Deborah Dahl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-09-28
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1402026765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
Author: A.W. Young
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 1483290654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe high degree of scientific interest in face processing is readily understandable, since people's faces provide such a wealth of social information. Moreover, investigations have produced evidence of highly precocious face processing abilities in infants, and of neural mechanisms in adults that seem to be differentially involved in face perception. Such findings demonstrate that, as one might expect, the psychological importance of the face has clear biological underpinnings.There are also urgent practical reasons for wanting to understand face processing. The most extensively investigated of these involve forensic issues. Other applications include the development of automated recognition systems for security and other purposes, and understanding and rehabilitating disorders and impairments linked to brain injuries and psychiatric conditions.Current studies of face processing are grouped in the volume into eleven topic areas. For each area, the editors approached an acknowledged authority and commissioned a review chapter summarising the findings that have been made. These chapters were then circulated to other experts who were asked to write brief commentaries that developed theoretical or empirical points of importance to each area. In this way, a balanced coverage of each topic is achieved.The book begins with a section examining the evidence suggesting that there may be something `special' about face processing. This is followed by consideration of the face as a visual pattern. Then there are four sections dealing with major uses of facial information, followed by sections discussing the development of face processing abilities and the neural mechanisms involved. The last three sections of the book deal with topics for which there are important practical applications for the studies reported.
