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the silent choir
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the silent choir
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Silent Communication Device
… device capable of transmitting communication silently by linking to a phone, computer, or radio channel. This device ensures completely silent communication between only those who use communicating devices and only requires that the user apply nodes to his or her throat when thinking of what …
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A continuous silent speech recognition system for AlterEgo, a silent speech interface
In this thesis, I present my work on a continuous silent speech recognition system for AlterEgo, a silent speech interface. By transcribing residual neurological signals sent from the brain to speech articulators during internal articulation, the system allows one to communicate without the need to …
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Morphological Segmentation During Silent Reading
… eye-movements were monitored while they silently read sentences where the monomorphemic members (guest; bale) of monomorphemic-polymorphemic (MP) pairs of heterographic homophones (guest-guessed) and of monomorphemic-monomorphemic (MM) pairs of heterographic homophones (bale-bail) were …
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Silent wounds of the family
In many social orders of the world the broken family core is an unfortunate and common reality, leading to an ever growing presence of homeless children, mothers, or fathers. South Africa is not a stranger to this phenomenon, despite the fact that it is viewed as a country with one of the most …
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Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's silent collaborator
"This study deals with Elisabeth Hauptmann's contributions to Bertolt Brecht's works. Handwritten and typed material from the ""Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv"" and the ""Literaturarchiv der Akademie der Kunste,"" where Elisabeth Hauptmann's papers are held in Berlin, as well as the Brecht Collection at …
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Silent Reading: A Case of Sustained Silent Reading in a Western Cape Grade 5 Classroom
… One of the ways was through daily Sustained Silent Reading periods (SSR-periods). Cattus Primary, a primary school in an affluent Western Cape suburb, had both a strong reading culture and held daily SSR-periods and it became the site of the case study. The case study focused on one class of …
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The silent experiences of young bilingual learners : a small scale sociocultural study into the silent period
… stage of English language acquisition - <i>the silent period</i>.<br></br><br></br> Building upon historical understandings of sociocultural theory, Vygotsky (1986), Lave and Wenger (1991), Wenger (1998), Rogoff (2003) and Gee (2004) provide the platform upon which the evolution of sociocultural …
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Propulsion system concepts for silent aircraft
… issue in air transportation. A functionally-silent aircraft is envisioned to achieve a step change in airframe and propulsion system noise reduction (30 EPNdB). This thesis addresses the assessment of low-noise propulsion system concepts suggested to enable such a functionally-silent …
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The Effects of Sustained Silent Reading and Sustained Silent Writing on the Reading Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students
… was to investigate the effects of sustained silent reading and sustained silent writing on the reading attitudes of fourth grade students. The sample consisted of twenty-eight fourth grade students in a self-contained general classroom in a suburban community. Fourteen students made up the …
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Design of silent, miniature, high torque actuators
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.
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Selective mutism: Unwilling to speak or scared silent?
To examine the relationship between selective mutism and anxiety, 15 children with selective mutism (SM) were compared to 15 children with anxiety disorders (AD) and a control group of 15 nonclinical children (CN). The study included children age 4--10 years and relied on information from multiple …
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Silent Punishment: The Experiences of d/Deaf Prisoners
While studies about minority group prisoners are becoming more commonplace in prison research, knowledge about the experiences of hard of hearing (HoH) and d/Deaf prisoners remains limited. A primary aim of this thesis is to provide a more comprehensive understanding about the lives of HoH/d/Deaf …
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The silent minority : developing talk in the primary classroom.
… articulate children. Many other children remain silent, frequently showing reluctance to speak either to pupils or to teachers. The teacher is too often in the position of having to respond to the vocal and potentially disruptive pupils with the result that the silent minority are ignored. This …
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Silent Outsiders: Searching For Queer Identity In Composition Readers
This study searches twenty composition readers' table of contents for the degree of inclusivity of queer people and issues. Four means of erasure are labeled as possible erasing of queer identity: presuming heteronormativity, overt homophobia, perpetuating tokenism, and pathologizing queer …
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