...Patel suggesting that one of the valued things provided by music is emotional power. According to the ‘multiple mechanism’ theory, music can influence human emotion in many different ways except *a. visual imagery and association with past, present and future event b. expectancy and fulfilment or violation c. activation of the brainstem by arousing acoustic features d. acoustics cues that resemble the sound of emotional voices medium Source: Section 6.1 page 22, 2nd paragraph, line 6 More questions being arise due to lack explanation on how the music’s universality can affect the emotion. Therefore Patel discuss how the multiple mechanism theory states that music can enhance emotion in five different ways which are 1) expectancy and its fulfilment or violation, 2) activation of the brainstem by arousing acoustic features (e.g., sudden, sharp onsets); 3) association with past events; 4) visual imagery; or 5) acoustic cues that resemble the sounds of emotional voices. The two examples of biological power of music discuss by Patel in the reading are I recovery of brain functions after stroke II recovery of cerebral palsy in premature baby III recovery of verbal fluency in aphasia IV recovery of deaf due to exposure of high volume sound *a) I and III b) I and II c) II and III d) III and IV Easy-medium Source: Patel reading section 4 of the biological power of music: two examples Patel clearly discuss the two examples of music and the recovery of brain functions...
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...Introduction This paper proposes a new approach, or a new paradigm if you will, to instrumental instruction that combines the foundational principles of language, singing, and psychophysics (awareness of physiology and psychology). I argue that instrumental pedagogy and methodology should necessarily introduce, or in some cases reintroduce, the basic skills in question, using disciplines at every level of instruction. Below, I introduce the skills in question. Those same skills are often the offending skills when taken as parts instead of a whole and when ill-instructed. I introduce the skills using flute pedagogy as a demonstrative example, and discuss why their combined and concurrent application can develop instrumental students more holistically. I see deficiency in current instrumental instruction methods because they seem opposite to the human experience. We are all exposed to language and singing from birth, and on some level we gain awareness of physiology and psychology. Yet the fact that our early lives combine these experience naturally seems lost on traditional instrumental pedagogy. Linguistics, vocal, and pyschophysical instruction usually are taught as completely separate entities. A new, more holistic paradigm would result from changing the instrumental instructional methodology by applying the Natural LEarning Process and Perceptual-Motor Learning. Three correlated modi operandi could include the integration and basic study of human physiology and psychology, vocal study...
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... November 21, 2014 In this assignment, I will be continuing my consulting for the Office of Population Affairs. My continuation of writing will analyze at least (2) laws or court decision that has implications of the agency’s personnel management. I will analyze (3) three major factors why the agency should address and (3) major factors why agency should not address Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender in their recruitment and hiring practices. As a consultant I will evaluate agency’s approach to ethics and diversity training programs provided action the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a diverse workforce. Laws Affecting the Agency: The two (2) laws that I have researched are both dealing with the Title X Family Planning and The Federal Employment Discrimination Law. The Title X family planning program was enacted in 1970 as Title X of The Public Health Service Act (Public Law 91-572) Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Program. The Family Planning concern with the compliance with State reporting laws. That reads; “Notwithstanding any other provisions of laws, no provider of services under Title X of the Public Health Services Act shall be exempt from any state law requiring notification or reporting of child molestation, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, or incest. This means that Title X providers must report such incidents to the appropriate State authority in accordance with requirements imposed by State laws...
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...participants identified the emotion conveyed. In Experiment 1 (n 20), musically trained adults performed better than untrained 56), musically trained adults outperformed untrained adults. In Experiment 2 (n adults at identifying sadness, fear, or neutral emotion. In Experiment 3 (n 43), 6-year-olds were tested after being randomly assigned to 1 year of keyboard, vocal, drama, or no lessons. The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear. In the past 10 years, the possibility of links between musical and nonmusical domains has generated excitement among researchers and the popular press. One line of research concerns short-term benefits in nonmusical domains that occur as a consequence of passive listening to music. In two widely cited studies (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1993, 1995), listening to music composed by Mozart led to temporary improvements in spatial abilities. As an instance of crossmodal priming, this result is remarkable because the priming stimulus (music) is seemingly unrelated to the task being primed (a spatial task). Subsequent research indicates, however, that the so-called Mozart effect has nothing to do with Mozart in particular or with music in general (Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999). Rather,...
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...great contributors such as Thomas Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Kirk Franklin. Things such as gospel music workshops and conventions exist today to educate individuals on this peculiar style of music. Recently, I held a gospel music workshop and many things were involved in putting it together. The following paper will discuss my research on the evolution of gospel music and elaborate more on why I decided to do a gospel music workshop. African American gospel music has been implemented with secular and non-African American elements. This has caused many individuals to wonder “what is gospel music?” This musical phenomenon has moved beyond the walls of the “black church” and includes many aspects (Wise 1). Gospel music can be defined from a cultural, spiritual, or musical perspective. There are underlying theological and spiritual principles Gospel music was a sacred folk music that originated out of slave songs, field hollers, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals and standard Protest hymns and many composed songs. The Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, IL classifies gospel music as African-American Protestant vocal music that...
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...Case Study: New Business Venture This case was borrowed from Kathy Schwalbe, Project Management 4th edition Part 1: Initiating Background Scenario: You and several of your friends have been working for corporations for over five years, but several of you have a desire to start your own business. You have decided that you are ready to pursue your idea of starting a music academy for children ages 3-16. You all enjoy creating music, and you saw the advantages that some children had from participating in special music programs beyond those available in schools. In particular, you see the need for music training in your area for children interested in voice, guitar, keyboard, and percussion so they can perform in their own bands. This New Business Venture Project would primarily involve you and three of your friends, who were all part of your high school band: 1. You are an excellent bass player, and you were the one who organized your band in high school and got the few paid gigs that you had. You can also play keyboard. You continue to play both instruments occasionally, but your full-time job and new spouse take up a lot of your time. Your current full-time job is working as a business analyst for a large retail store. Although your job is going well, you realize that you would be happier working in your own business and with something involving music. Your strengths are your creativity, organization, and analytical skills. Your spouse is employed full-time and supports...
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...CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY AMPAYON, BUTUAN CITY Importance of Music in Early Education Submitted to: Mrs. Flordelez U. Saspa Instructor Submitted by: Campos,Cristine Q. Nakila,Phoebe kates Quimay,Maria Salome Bagsarsa,Marlyn Balagon,Jessa Abanil,Bliss Lubaino,Josephine Gamolo,Junric Day-om,Richard Hijada,Edgar March 2013 ...
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...Presenting an Academic Paper AGUS GUNAWAN Discussion points What is a good presentation? What will the audience remember? What is the most difficult aspect of presenting? Why? Are you nervous when you have to present? What are you afraid of? What do you hope to learn from this training? What we will discuss… Designing presentation content Designing effective power point Presenting your work Designing Presentation Content Things to be considered… Creates an overall framework – intro, main body, conclusion Understand key terminology Assumes the audiences knows nothing about the subject at all Time management Keep your own voice: start & end your paragraphs Applies critical thinking Develop the presentation content Identify your audience Formulate your objectives Make a statement Expand on the statement Use clear signpost to guide the audience through your discussion Back up with evidence and examples A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions Three principal questions for critical thinking What Why How “What?” Identifies the key message you wish to communicate. What is the benefit of your message for the audience ? What can they do with the information ? “Why?” Addresses the next obvious question that arises in the audience. “why should I do that?” “why should I think that?” “why should that be the case?” ...
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...Behavioral therapy is the second most common leading therapy for children with ADHD. To properly help the child behavioral therapy have to come from all facets of the child’s life. To be effective in behavioral therapy, the parents must be involve through parent training, classroom management, peer interventions, and combinations of these interventions. Parent training is very critical, because it teaches them about ADHD, in addition to, behavioral problems, and child development. This training gives the parents positive parenting strategies (Felt, Biermann, Christiner, Kochhar, & Harrison, 2014) Behavioral therapy are separated into two categories: antecedents of behavior, and consequences of behavior. The first one has to deal with the setting, environmentally structure. Things such the size of the classroom, regular classes verses special education classes. Seating arrangements and even the task that are given. To add, consequences therapy involve the school setting based on contingency management. This contingency depends on the behavior of the child (Schwiebert, Sealander, & Tollerud,...
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...Ethical Issues in Management The tasks of a supervisor go far beyond management. In fact, supervisors have to make vital decisions all the time that affect their employees, and possibly the business depending on the situation. Managers take part in hiring, performance, evaluation, discipline, and termination. They are also involved in any circumstance that pertains to harassment and diversity, and they must make a conscious effort to set a good example for their employees. The following paper will focus primarily on termination; describe the moral and ethical issues faced by managers dealing with termination; explain how relationships between social issues and ethically responsible management practices apply to termination; provide a workplace example of an ethical dilemma involving termination. Termination In the case of termination, performance evaluations, verbal and written warnings can be moral issues as they all entail truthfulness, evenhandedness, and the self-respect of the individual. Managers play a critical role in increasing engagement and building an ethical way of life for the most part sensible issues of company ethics. We need not determine all the rational disputes involving the utilitarian’s and the deontologists. Regardless of the different approaches, in the bulk of situations both techniques, if cautiously, delicately, and carefully applied, will generate the same ethical conclusion with respect to the values of the method...
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...Running head: Working Memory Training in Children School Based Working Memory Training: Preliminary finding of Improvement in Children’s Mathematical Performance Panmoli Sivananthan Psychology 107 University Canada West December 04, 2011 (Essay 1587 words) My topic is “Working Memory In the textbook, it is defined on pg. 259 as follows: Working memory, a newer understanding of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s second stage, concentrates on the active processing of information in this intermediate stage. Because we cannot possibly focus on all the information bombarding our senses at once, we shine the flashlight beam of our attention on certain incoming stimuli – often those that are novel or important. We process these incoming stimuli, along with information we retrieve from long-tem memory, in temporary working memory. Working memory associates new and old information and solves problems (Baddeley, 2001, 200; Engle, 2002). Reference in textbook on pages R-3 & R-17 Baddeley, A.D. (2001). Is working memory still working? American Psychologist, pg 56, 849-864. Baddeley, A.D. (2002, June). Is working memory still working? European Psychologist, 7, 85-97. Engle, R.W. (2002). Working memory capacity as executive attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 19-23. References to the three articles of my interest: My primary article: Marcus, W. (2011). School Based Working Memory training: Preliminary finding of improvement in children’s mathematical...
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...Restorative Justice Empowerment* Charles Barton** *Acknowledgements Versions of this paper have previously appeared in print as detailed below. The author acknowledges and thanks the relevant Editors for their permission to re-produce the article on the VOMA Web-Page: 1. The Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, vol. 2, no. 2, 2000. 2. Just Peace?: Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium. (Proceedings of a Conference held 24 – 28 April 2000, at Massey University, Albany, Aotearoa/New Zealand) Edited by Warwick Tie. Massey University Centre for Justice and Peace Development. (pp. 50 – 62). **Biographical Note Charles Barton is a professional philosopher and conflict resolution specialist who lectures and trains in Law and Morality, Professional and Applied Ethics, and Restorative Justice. He is a Lecturer in the School of Policing Studies, and a Research Fellow in the ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is also a former Research Fellow of Massey University (NZ), and a current Visiting Fellow in the Key Centre in Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Charles Barton is the developer and author of the Empowerment Model of Restorative Justice, which is based on a unified and comprehensive philosophy and theory of conflict resolution that makes Empowerment...
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...Running head: Text to Speech Text to Speech Technology Professor: ABSTRACT Text to speech approaches towards adding expressivity to machines is an important field being researched and worked on these days. This paper presents an overview of speech synthesis approach, its applications and advancements towards modern technology. It begins with a description of how such systems work, examines the use of text-to-speech software and try to apply this technology to the DMCS project for evidence of benefits of text to speech applications for people engaged in different fields and the level of accuracy that can be expected. Applications of speech synthesis technology in various fields are then explored. The document concludes with potential uses of speech to text in various fields, likely main uses of the technology in the future. TEXT TO SPEECH – INTRODUCTION A Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis is a widely used technology that should be able to read any text aloud, whether it was directly introduced in the computer by an operator or scanned and submitted to an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system. Let it be more precise, systems that simply concatenate isolated words or parts of sentences, denoted as Voice Response Systems, are only applicable when a limited vocabulary is required (typically a few one hundreds of words), and when the sentences to...
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...Organizational Behavior Analysis Paper: Part I Saaid Ahmed Metropolitan State University Introduction This paper will help demonstrate my personal conflicts through a series of analytical self-assessments. My personal reports will focus on six different self-assessments, each with an evaluation of feedback, giving me a look closer into my results. I will give examples of my scores with personal conflicts I’ve dealt with. Based from personal conflicted experiences and my personal background, I will use the remaining portion of my report to discuss the importance of acknowledging self-conflicts, self-personality, and self-awareness. Assessments To begin, I have partaken in several assessments to help me where I fit among those found with my studies, ranging from men between the ages of 18-65. Its ranks brought insight to where I feel I belonged. The first self-assessment I took focused on five categories of personality, the next one, a Keirsey Temperament Sorter, followed by evaluating my score of self-monitor, ending with decision making, emotional intelligence and finally communication under stress. . The Big Five Personality Dimensions are: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, and Openness to experience. Beginning with the results of extraversion, I scored a 59. I wasn’t too surprised to see that score. The feedback mentioned high levels on cheerfulness and friendliness, but low on assertiveness and activity level. .Following extraversion...
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...CONCATENATIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS OF TWO-SYLLABLE FILIPINO WORDS Lourdes T. Tupas, Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, Ph.D., and Melvin Co Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of the Philippines, Diliman ABSTRACT In concatenative-based speech synthesizers, one of the most important problems is proper union of speech units to achieve an intelligible and natural-sounding synthetic speech. For that purpose, speech units need to be processed and concatenated so that discontinuities at concatenation points are minimized. Another possible solution to this is by using a larger speech unit to decrease the number of concatenation points. In this project, which utilized two-syllable Filipino words, the speech unit is syllable. Characterization of these Filipino words is done to differentiate words of the same spelling but of different meanings. This characterization took note of the pitch, duration of utterance of each syllable in the word, and the first three formant frequencies. A digital signal processing (DSP) block is also implemented. It accepts two-syllable text and outputs all the possible utterances of that word; this block is the text-to-speech synthesizer. A two-interval forced choice test was conducted to evaluate the level of naturalness of the synthesized speech. Words of the same spelling but of different meanings are distinguished using the prosody and intelligibility test. 1. INTRODUCTION ...
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