Vocal tract settings in speakers suffering from obstructive sleep apnea síndrome

Automatic systems based on speech signal analysis for the early dete ction of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have achieved fairly high performance rates in recent years. However, a satisfactory explanation of these results has not been available. This presentation aims at explaining via an examination of the long-term spectra of OSA patients and normal control speakers these systems’ ability to discover OSA speakers on the base of all-purpose cepstral coefficients. An in terpretation of the long- term spectra in terms of the underlying tract settings suggests that the speech of OSA patients is characterized by a pharyngeal narrowing that may be captured by acoustic cues of the spectral contour of windowed speech frames. A novel interpretation of long-term spectra in terms of the first principal component of the temporal sequence of short-term amplitude-spectra is also discussed.

Higher levels of physical fitness are associated with a reduced risk of suffering sarcopenic obesity and better perceived health among elderly. The EXERNET multi-center study

Evaluar la asociación entre los niveles físicos de la aptitud, de calidad relacionada con la salud de la vida (CVRS) y la obesidad sarcopénica

Invisible Suffering: Practitioner Reflections on Peacebuilding Programs with Youth Exposed to Traumatic Stressors in Intergroup Conflict

For decades, the international community has recognized that youth are some of the most vulnerable to mental and emotional distress within the intractable and cyclical nature of identity-based violent conflict. Exposure to traumatic stressors within these intergroup conflicts poses unique risks not only to the neurological and social development of youth, but also to the capacities of youth to fully participate in peacebuilding interventions. The peacebuilding field has yet to strongly consider how traumatic stress affects dynamics within programs for youth and how these programs may need to modify expectations of youth’s cognitive, social, and emotional functioning to account for the traumatic dimensions of political and social violence. Through a qualitative analysis of practitioner reflections gathered from an online survey distributed worldwide, this study explores how practitioners conceptualize and approach issues of traumatic stress in peacebuilding programs focused on youth in conflict-affected contexts. The objective is to identify the working assumptions undergirding practitioner conceptualizations and approaches to traumatic stress and gaps in trauma interventions in peacebuilding programs for youth. The implications of these findings will support efforts to enhance trauma-sensitive peacebuilding practice by revisiting and reconsidering preexisting norms.

The suffering Savior; or, Meditations on the last days of Christ /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Cameron pride : or, Purified by suffering : a novel /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dedication of monuments erected by the state of Iowa : commemorating the death, suffering and valor of her soldiers on the battlefields of Vickburg [sic], Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Shiloh and in the Confederate prison at Andersonville : November twelfth to twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six /

Mode of access: Internet.

Standing statue of the Celestial Worthy of the Great Unity, Savior from Suffering (Taiyi Jiuku tianzun)

H: 3 ft. 6 1/64 in.; gilt bronze

Letters on the condition of the poor : addressed to Alexander Henry, Esq., containing a vindication of poor laws and benevolent societies, proofs of the injustice of the general censure of the poor for extravagance, dissipation, etc., instances of intense suffering in Philadelphia ... /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29122.

Lachrymae ecclesiae; the Anglican reformed church and her clergy in the days of their destitution and suffering during the great rebellion in the seventeenth century.

Mode of access: Internet.

Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soul-suffering, his loveliness in his death, and the efficacy thereof ... delivered in sermons on the Gospel according to John ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoir of Hannah Hobbie, or, Christian activity, and triumph in suffering /

Mode of access: Internet.

The suffering Savior : or, Meditations on the last days of Christ.

Tr. of: Der leidende Christus.