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Ho, Cynthia H. "Listening To Our Patients’ Concerns." Health Affairs 32, no. 11 (November 2013): 2059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1099.
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Strunc, Abbie R. "Editorial: Are They Listening? Policymakers and Their Role in Public Education." Research in Educational Policy and Management 2, no. 1 (June 2, 2020): i—iii. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/repam.02.01.ed.
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In the United States the policy making process claims to be a cyclical process which drives politicians, dictates policies drafted, and legislation ultimately passed. The process begins with the people bringing issues, ideas, and concerns to the attention of the news media, advocacy groups, grassroots organizations, or interest groups. Ideally these groups connect the concerns of the people to elected officials and/ or courts who respond by creating policies which address these concerns. This is an over-simplified ideal. The reality of policymaking is messy, partisan, and the results frequently fail to address the concerns of the public, or create more unintended consequences than solve problems. Public education is an area of concern most familiar with unintended consequences.
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전지현. "Concerns and Challenges of L2 Listening Comprehension Test." New Korean Journal of English Lnaguage & Literature 51, no. 3 (August 2009): 275–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25151/nkje.2009.51.3.013.
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Partridge, Brad, Jayne Lucke, and Wayne Hall. "Listening to public concerns about human life extension." EMBO reports 11, no. 10 (September 10, 2010): 735–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/embor.2010.137.
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Izumi, Shigeko. "Bridging Western Ethics and Japanese Local Ethics by Listening to Nurses’ Concerns." Nursing Ethics 13, no. 3 (May 2006): 275–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733006ne874oa.
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Among Japanese nurses ethics is perceived as being distant and unrelated to their practice, although this is filled with ethical concerns and the making of ethical decisions. The reasons for this dissociation are the primacy of western values in modern Japanese health care systems and the suppression of Japanese nurses’ indigenous ethical values because of domination by western ethics. A hermeneutic study was conducted to listen to the ethical voices of Japanese nurses. Seven ethical concerns were revealed. Although some of these concerns may seem to share similar values with western ethical principles, the basis for the concerns was unique and rooted in the Japanese cultural value system. The meanings of each concern are explicated in conjunction with related background meanings. Listening and trying to understand these nurses’ voices in their own context suggests a way of bridging the gap between abstract and universal ethics and practical and local ethics.
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Sharma, Mridula, Linda Cupples, and Suzanne C. Purdy. "Predictors of Reading Skills in Children With Listening Concerns." Ear and Hearing 40, no. 2 (2019): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000608.
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Lawson, Mary. "Is anyone listening to the concerns of clinical teachers?" Clinical Teacher 4, no. 4 (December 2007): 218–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-498x.2007.00190.x.
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Gregory, Brian C. "“Developing Critical Listening”." Resonance 3, no. 3 (2022): 309–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/res.2022.3.3.309.
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The mid-1930s saw broadcasters, educators, and researchers coalesce around the study and implementation of critical listening for educational radio as a new technology for school instruction. These early media literacy researchers were motivated by ambitions to counter distracted and passive listening caused by commercial radio, advertising, and propaganda; to foreground the aural sense in classrooms dominated by reading and writing; and to promote democratic listening in young people. The following investigation draws from previously unexamined archival materials from research centers and radio schools of the air in Ohio and Wisconsin in addition to the oral history of Dorothy Gordon, progressive host of the Youth Forum educational program on New York Times–owned WQXR-AM. This article provides a critical perspective on the role of listening, sound technologies, and literacies for contemporary concerns about political polarization, tensions between commercial and noncommercial media, and democratic engagement.
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Dunbar, Julia C., Emily Bascom, Ashley Boone, and Alexis Hiniker. "Is Someone Listening?" Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 5, no. 3 (September 9, 2021): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3478091.
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Smart devices with the capability to record audio can create a trade-off for users between convenience and privacy. To understand how users experience this trade-off, we report on data from 35 interview, focus group, and design workshop participants. Participants' perspectives on smart-device audio privacy clustered into the pragmatist, guardian, and cynic perspectives that have previously been shown to characterize privacy concerns in other domains. These user groups differed along four axes in their audio-related behaviors (for example, guardians alone say they often move away from a microphone when discussing a sensitive topic). Participants surfaced three usage phases that require design consideration with respect to audio privacy: 1) adoption, 2) in-the-moment recording, and 3) downstream use of audio data. We report common design solutions that participants created for each phase (such as indicators showing when an app is recording audio and annotations making clear when an advertisement was selected based on past audio recording).
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McFadden, Heather. "Parental Concerns on Gastroesophageal Reflux." Clinical Lactation 8, no. 4 (2017): 169–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2158-0782.8.4.169.
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Parents often perceive infant gastroesophageal reflux (GER) as a serious problem. Frequently, GER is explained as a normal process, but there are instances where parents’ concerns are valid. Provided are 3 case studies from the private practice of an IBCLC. Each case initially presented with what sounded like normal infant GER. Upon further evaluation, with close follow-up and more detailed history taking, each case required advanced medical attention. These cases highlight the unique role of the IBCLC in helping to assess GER, the value of working as a team member with baby’s physicians, and the importance of listening carefully to parental instincts and concerns.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Listening concerns"
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McAtee, Carrie. "Increasing School Commitment by Listening to Veteran Teachers' Needs and Concerns." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1700.
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The role that support systems play in new teachers' levels of school commitment has been widely documented. However, veteran teachers' levels of commitment have not been as closely studied. According to the department of education in a Southeastern state, the veteran teacher attrition rate at a Title I school in an urban school district was in the double digits for several years. High veteran teacher attrition rates and low levels of commitment can cause problems such as loss of continuity of instruction for students. The purpose of this study was to identify veteran teachers' perceptions of their levels of school commitment and how the district can support and retain veteran educators. Self-determination theory, as it relates to the satisfaction of teachers' needs and concerns in the context of their work environment, formed the conceptual framework for this study. The study was implemented to explore research questions related to veteran teachers' needs and concerns, working conditions, and supports. A case study research design was utilized. Interview data were collected from a criterion-based, purposeful sample of 10 veteran teachers. These data were analyzed inductively for common themes and patterns and resulted in findings based on veteran teachers' needs and concerns such as greater district and parent support and job-embedded professional development. A project was developed based on the findings to address the problem. The project focused on creating professional learning communities to support veteran teachers and increase their levels of school commitment. Positive social change can result from creating these professional learning communities for veteran teachers in order to address their needs and concerns, such as greater school commitment for veteran teachers and more continuity of instruction for students, which will result in higher academic achievement.
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Leung, Ki-ki, and 梁琪琪. "Listening for the "spirit" of symphonies : program notes and the construction of the Soviet hero." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206658.
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Program note was introduced into the European concert hall in the mid 19th century when instrumental music began to predominate the public concert repertoire. It inculcates the public audience through a specific mode of listening to music. The program notes, largely written in line with the contemporaneous hermeneutical approach, emphasize the importance of the composer’s life and compositional intention, and in turn, stage the work as an expression of the composer’s spirit. This thesis contemplates the way in which program notes encourage a kind of understanding that brings forth the biographical quality of non-programmatic instrumental music, and hence, lead to the construction of certain musical meanings.
In cases of symphonies whose contexts connote a great deal of heroic and humanistic struggles in association with the composer’s life, their program notes tend to elicit the personal utterances of the composer. These utterances, when empathized with by a large group of audience, are no longer only perceived as the composers’ personal expressions of heroism and humanistic struggle but also identified as expressions of the community. With the close reading of program notes of Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 10 written for a selection of American orchestras before and after the publication of Testimony, this thesis shows how program notes contribute to the shift in the meaning of Shostakovich’s music in reliance upon the related historical context. It furthermore aims to discuss the aesthetic dilemma of extra musical association in the listening of “absolute music” and the intricacy of treating history and biography as important agents for understanding music.published_or_final_version
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Custer, Robert S. "Effect of passive classroom listening on students' preferences toward classical/concert music /." Licensed for access by UF students, faculty, and staff (and others in a UF library), 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ufl/fullcit?p3117317.
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Powell, Katherine L. "Basic Concepts in Early Education Programs for Children with Hearing Loss in Listening and Spoken Language Classrooms." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/938.
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Mastery of basic concepts is an academic building block for preschool children in early education programs. Research shows that understanding basic concepts (e.g. top, under, fast, now, all, behind, full and short) is important for academic success and higher order thinking. Experts in the field of concept acquisition agree on six strategies for teaching basic concepts. These strategies include: using positive examples and negative examples, highlighting critical features of concepts through continuous conversion, isolating the concept, the order in which the examples are presented, and teaching generalization. This study investigated the extent to which nine preschool teachers of children with hearing loss used four of the six strategies (using examples, non examples, continuous conversion, and isolating the concept) during a 20-minute lesson in which a new basic concept was taught. Results indicated that teachers do well with using examples to teach basic concepts, but they lack sufficient use of the other three strategies for teaching basic concepts.
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Gross, Jonathan. "Concert going in everyday life : an ethnography of still and silent listening at the BBC Proms." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685336.
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Drawing on interviews with 60 audience members and two seasons’ participant observation, this thesis provides an ethnographic account of ’still and silent listening’ at the BBC Proms. In doing so, it locates concert going within the everyday lives of listeners and argues that, for some, attending concerts is a resource for what Tia DeNora has called "aesthetic agency". These concert goers appropriate both the norm of still and silent audience behaviour, and the particular institutional conditions of the Proms, in order to cultivate versions of themselves. Perhaps surprisingly, listeners use the concert hall for purposes comparable to the ways in which DeNora and Michael Bull have each shown more malleable and mobile music technologies being employed by music users: to organize experience, and as ’technologies of self. And yet at the same time as individual and potentially individuating practices are taking place, concert listening, and attending the Proms in particular, is a collective activity. The thesis documents and explores the ways in which concert goers experience both enjoyment and discomfort in listening together. Here I show the Proms to be a site of ambivalent pleasures, but also argue that Richard Sennett’s influential characterization of still and silent listening as a symptom of ’t he fall of public man’ is inadequate to the varied modes of collective experience found amongst audiences. Running through the thesis is the argument that many concert goers use the norm of still and silent listening and the institutional provisions of the Proms as a ’holding environment’: a predictable and enduring set of conditions which allows for unpredictable and rich experiences to take place. In this way, the thesis has implications for understanding both the ambivalent enjoyments of concert going, and the purposes to which cultural institutions can be put by their users.
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Nguyen, Hang Thi Tuyet. "Audiences’ engagement with Twitter and Facebook Live during classical music performances: community and connectivity through live listening experiences." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6618.
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Music ensembles have made a concerted attempt to reach out through social media platforms to the communities surrounding their concert venues in order to attract young adults to replace aging audiences. By observing opera and symphony orchestra audience members’ social media engagement through Twitter and Facebook Live, this dissertation endeavors to better understand how technology has changed the culture of classical music concert attendance. The music organizations utilizing social media considered for this study include the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Boston Lyric Opera for Tweet Seats, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Facebook Live. Consideration of live-tweets, Facebook Live concerts and comments, and personal interviews with social media users and music ensemble personnel provides insight to the changing experience of concert attendance.
Interviews with online users who are actively participating in Tweet Seats on Twitter and chatrooms on Facebook Live during live-streamed concerts reveal that integrating social media during live performances enhances their sense of community, and their musical and social experiences. Participants indicate that prior classical music experience affects their motivation to participate and engage with other users. For many interviewees, affordability and VIP perks were initial incentives for their online involvement, but the overall experience for these users is complex. Interacting online allowed classical music fans to connect and/or reconnect to the ensembles and their music, and to an existing wired community, while negotiating with changes to the long-standing conventions of classical music culture. These alternative concert-going experiences made possible by social media reconstruct liveness within a digital world, cultivate classical music fandom, and enrich the live listening experience through collective engagement.
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Araújo, de Siqueira Matheus. "Listening to Vincent Moon: musical encounters and the cinematic diagram." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665066.
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This thesis confronts how, in Vincent Moon’s films, experience takes the spotlight in detriment of signification. I formulate that the director, rather than worrying about imbuing his films with an inherited sense, is instead searching that his work may express something unique each time it is encountered. To achieve this, his artistic practice is submitted through a set of procedures that are more in line with the field of sound than that of cinema. By transposing values that are deeply rooted into sound philosophy to film (particularly Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy), Moon’s work criticizes the predominant ocular-centric perspective where meaning and understanding is the ultimate goal. Questioning the implications of such a practice, I relate emerging studies related to sound with Deleuze’s Actual/Virtual circuit and Walter Benjamin’s auratic experience. I conclude by proposing that in Vincent Moon a new form of image surfaces, one that even though in its early stages, should be comprehended through its explosive capacity to deliver an experience and in its intrinsic transient and ephemeral nature—the encounter-image.Esta tesis se enfrenta a cómo la experiencia es el centro de la atención en detrimento de la significación en las películas de Vincent Moon. Formulo que el director está buscando que su trabajo exprese algo único cada vez que se lo encuentre en vez de preocuparse por imbuir sus películas con un sentido. Para lograr esto, su práctica artística se somete a un conjunto de procedimientos que están más en línea con el campo del sonido que el del cine. Al transponer valores profundamente arraigados en la filosofía del sonido al cine (particularmente A la escucha de Jean-Luc Nancy), el trabajo de Moon critica la perspectiva ocular predominante donde el significado y la comprensión es el objetivo final. Al cuestionar las implicaciones de tal práctica, dialogo con estudios emergentes relacionados con el sonido con lo Actual y lo Virtual de Deleuze, además de la experiencia aurática de Walter Benjamin. Concluyo proponiendo que Vincent Moon propone una nueva forma de imagen, una que debe ser comprendida a través de su capacidad explosiva de ofrecer una experiencia de naturaleza intrínsecamente transitoria y efímera: la imagen-encuentro.
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Tchorek, Denis. "La transcription en France dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : l'exemple d'Alexandre Guilmant." Thesis, Tours, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR2003.
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Le XIXe siècle français a été marqué par une pratique extrêmement répandue de la transcription musicale. Cette thèse veut s'attacher à ses usages comme moyen d'accès à l'œuvre, à travers l'apport exceptionnel en ce domaine du compositeur et organiste Alexandre Guilmant, des années 1850 – époque de ses premières activités professionnelles – à 1910, veille de sa mort. Si transcrire n'est pas spécifique au XIXe siècle, cet acte irrigue la création musicale, se place au cœur de la conception esthétique de l'œuvre, au point de concentrer en lui de nombreuses questions liées à l'écoute, à la pratique amateur et professionnelle, à l'émergence d'une littérature spécifique et adaptée, à la propriété intellectuelle, entre autres. Le cas Guilmant, étudié dans son contexte socio-artistique, éclaire l'image du transcripteur qui se nourrit de l'extrême mobilité de la musique, s'imprègne des styles classiques et anciens, actualise des œuvres choisies et contribue ainsi à la construction d'un répertoire exemplaire. La transcription apparaît alors comme médiatrice d'une culture, capable d'accompagner le développement de la conscience historiqueMusical transcription was an extremely widespread practice in 19th-Century France. This thesis will focus on its use as a mean of accessing the original artwork, through the outstanding contribution in this field of composer and organist Alexandre Guilmant, between the years of his early professional activities in the 1850s until the eve of his death in 1910. Although transcription is by no means confined to the 19th-Century, it flows through all of musical creation and lies at the heart of the aesthetic design of the artwork – to the point of bringing into focus many issues related, among others, to listening, to amateur and professional practice, to the emergence of a literature both specific and adapted to intellectual property. Guilmant’s case, studied against his socio-artistic background, illuminates the transcriber who, feeding on the extreme mobility of music, is impregnated by classical and antique styles, updates selected works, and so contributes to the development of an exemplary repertoire. Transcription appears as the mediator of a culture and capable of supporting the development of historical consciousness
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Cheng, Chen Jue, and 陳瑞成. "Listening and staring—The Creation Exposition of the Ecological Environment's Concern." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33633427679696143303.
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Listening and staring —The Creation Exposition of the Ecological Environment's Concern All the creations are made during 2005-2006. Using acrylic pigment as a main medium, the content concerns for Taiwan’s ecological environment as the principal axis of the exposition. Taiwan's ecological environment is very fragile and has been harmed by decades of rapid developments. It’s especially under a big threat in the last few years. To highlight the seriousness of Taiwan’s ecological crisis and show the urgency of protecting Taiwan’s ecological environment, I choose this topic “Listening and staring” to introspecting human’s destruction on this land. Based on this principal axis, I develop all the creations with imaginative thought related to the academic theories, cultural heritage, artwork styles, and the analysis and discussion of content meaning to build up the integration of the ideas and the reality. It's listed as the following. The purpose of this research is to study esthetic analysis and related topics. The theories foundation of this research includes: the human spirit that realism and post-modernism pay attention to, symbolism thought, usage of surrealism skill and existism’s introspection for the future. The content of this research shows the differences and similarities between “ancient” environment philosophy of the east and the west, the ecological crisis caused by “modern” human-centered thought and the “nowadays” ecology introspection. Chapter 3 describes how I design the creations by personal artistic style, skill method and the usage of medium. I study the styles and skills of different painting parties through choosing, blending, extending , expanding, and join my own painting symbols. By this, I try to build up my own art style. I induce the following three kinds of styles: First, compound multiple-space presenting. Secondly, the getting and loosing of the focus and pursuit of the color atmosphere. Third, presenting of metaphor and symbols. The skill method and medium are also used in three aspects: First, the realistic skill method to strength the emotion moved by the creations, Secondly, the usage of different textures to enrich the contents of the creations. Third, the usage of the existing materials to deepen inside metaphor of the creations. Chapter 4 describes the style analysis of my creations by its content and the forming techniques. In short, my creations for “ Taiwan’s ecological environment’s concern” is to show caring emotions for the land by combining issues of the ecological environment and esthetics of various skill methods. Keywords: the human spirit, ecological environment, realism, post-modernism, symbol Keywords：ecological environment、realism、human spirit
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Walker, Mark Justin. "A case study of music education majors' experience of band concerts." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3223742.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2506. Adviser: Gregory DeNardo. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-167). Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
Books on the topic "Listening concerns"
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Sound studies: Critical concepts in media and cultural studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012.
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Volmar, Axel. Experiencing High Fidelity. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.19.
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This chapter focuses on the shifting conceptions of how to listen to music in the age of sound recording. I start with reviewing Adorno’s concerns regarding a regression of listening and contrast these with new listening practices in the first half of the twentieth century. I show, then, how hi-fi enthusiasts in the Cold War era linked ideals of sophisticated music listening to recorded music and technical expertise. While the self-image of the cultivated yet technologically aware domestic listener greatly revalued the experience of skillful music listening, I show how societal change rendered normative ideals of listening increasingly unattractive late in the century. Relying on recent sound studies research and various historical sources, I offer a critical discussion of conceptions of skillful music listening and put this debate in the context of shifting self-conceptions among the middle classes as well as the power struggles this section of society faced.
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Listening for Basic Concepts. LinguiSystems, 1990.
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Solomon, Elena Vestri. Key Concepts: Listening Book 2. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
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Key Concepts: Listening Book 1. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
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Bashford, Christina. Concert Listening the British Way? Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.8.
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It is a well-known fact that the provision of printed program notes at concerts of classical music was a nineteenth-century phenomenon aimed at guiding listener experiences. This chapter discusses why those notes first proliferated in Britain and whether there was anything peculiarly British about them. Program notes took root in 1840s Britain, initially at highly serious chamber concerts. They explained the formal structure by aural sign-postings and embodied a significant attempt to shape listening practices in Victorian Britain in a distinctive way. Underpinning their successful spread were several interlocking economic, cultural, and musical factors. These included the rapid development of a sizeable public concert culture, the growth of audiences eager for the elucidation of high art, the Victorian desire to educate and guide (related to notions of tourism, industry, rationality, progress, and religious reverence), and the absence of a tradition of publishing in-depth reviews of music in British journals.
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Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018.
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Tewinkel, Christiane. “Everybody in the Concert Hall should be Devoted Entirely to the Music”. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.7.
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This chapter discusses the extent to which representations of “improper” listening are found in popular and academic literature of German and U.S. origin, for the process of reception is highly susceptible to error and interference. Indeed, despite near-ideal conditions, concert-goers are as prone to molding their experience according to subjective predilections as any other type of listener. They may not even be listening at all, despite being physically present and dependent on the musical performance. This mode of behavior as a fact of (concert) life is sometimes mentioned in recent popular books on music but seldom appears in older books; nor has it been part of musicological accounts of symphonic concerts, although scholars such as James H. Johnson (1995) and Peter Gay (1995) speak extensively about disruptions in historical performances. The chapter considers changes in the assessment of such listening in recent years and contemplates causes for these shifts.
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Bull, Michael. Sound Studies: Key Concepts. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Bull, Michael. Sound Studies: Key Concepts. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Phippen, Andy, and Louisa Street. "Listening to Young People’s Concerns." In Online Resilience and Wellbeing in Young People, 43–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88634-9_4.
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Weng, Jing. "“He Never Wears a Hat”: Listening to Parents’ Concerns." In Reflective Practice in Teaching, 253–57. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9475-1_38.
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Stein, Howard F. "Key Concepts." In Listening Deeply, 25–58. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429034190-2.
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Worthington, Debra L. "Listening Concepts Inventory (LCI and LCI-R)." In The Sourcebook of Listening Research, 372–78. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119102991.ch38.
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Jakka, Sarath. "Nothing Beyond the Name." In The Case for Reduction, 155–73. Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_08.
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What are the different kinds of reduction that take place in a psychotherapeutic discipline? This article looks at the agonistic relations between the two types of reduction that fundamentally constitute a psychotherapeutic paradigm: naming and listening. At any given moment in the history of psychological theory, various schools and theories are in contention with each other over an institutional and state legitimation that will only be granted to one or some of them. It is argued that these disciplinary contentions for a dominant status subordinate the names and concepts that populate a particular psychotherapeutic paradigm to a property regime, thereby obscuring or compromising the attention paid to forms of listening that occur on the edge of naming and meaning.
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Morehouse, Harlan, and Marisa Cigliano. "Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene." In The Anthropocene, 294–301. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003208211-31.
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Rangan, Pooja. "Documentary Listening Habits." In The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, 403—C20.N71. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190873929.013.25.
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Abstract This chapter rethinks the documentary field’s prevailing metaphor for a film’s social perspective—“voice”—in conjunction with the “auditory turn” in media and cultural theory. Drawing on terms like “listening ear” (Jennifer Lynn Stoever), “audit” (John Mowitt), and “listening habitus” (Lisbeth Lipari), I revisit canonical documentary theorizations of voice to refocus their concerns with how documentaries speak or “give voice” to how documentary practices and conventions condition hearing and shape listening habits. I map the documentary listening habitus in terms of two divergent habits of listening: objective listening and embodied listening. These listening habits are entangled with auditory discernments that extend beyond documentary, including accent neutralization in the call center industry, audism or the pathologization of hearing impairments, and forensic listening in asylum cases. At stake in this shift is an apprehension of how documentary listeners are powerfully implicated in the distribution of political, social, and material resources.
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Dorfman, Jay. "Accountability Concerns." In Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199795581.003.0011.
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With the advent of technology-based music instruction, we are at an important juncture in terms of standards and accountability. To date, there are no sets of standards that directly address the ways in which TBMI teachers and students work, and therefore there is a lack of clarity as to how we are accountable to the larger educational culture. Several sets of standards exist that come close; they address either the musical or the technological portions of TBMI, but not both. Others address teachers’ roles or students’ roles, but not both. In this chapter, we will examine relevant sets of standards and explore how they imply accountability for TBMI teachers and students. In 1994, the Music Educators National Conference (now the National Association for Music Education) released a document outlining the National Standards for Music Education, in coordination with similar standards in theater, art, and dance. The nine music standards from 1994 were the following: Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. Reading and notating music. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. Evaluating music and music performances. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. Understanding music in relation to history and culture. The NAfME standards suggest curricula that are distributed among performance, musical creativity, and connections between music and context. These are noble goals for which teachers should strive. The NAfME standards are widely accepted, and many teachers refer to them as benchmarks to assess the completeness of curriculum. In no way do the NAfME standards suggest that musical learning should be achieved through technology, nor do they contain suggestions about how students should meet any of them. In this way, the shapers of the NAfME standards are to be commended because the standards are flexible enough that they can be addressed in ways teachers see fit. Therefore, the standards passively suggest that technology-based music instruction is as valid a means of music learning as are other forms.
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"Listening to Soundscapes in Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala (1975)." In Voicing the Cinema, edited by Brooke McCorkle, 190–206. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043000.003.0011.
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In his overview of Kurosawa Akira’s works, preeminent scholar of Japanese culture and film, Donald Richie, harshly evaluates the director’s 1975 film Dersu Uzala. Citing an increased emphasis on style over “a dynamic sense of character,” Richie argues that “Kurosawa has produced for the first time in his long and outstanding career a rather lifeless film.” Yet what is missed in Richie’s otherwise well-thought-out critique is Kurosawa’s increased concerns about the depictions of environments natural and urban through the film’s sound design. Produced in the early 1970s in the wake of serious environmental problems that plagued Japan’s rapid postwar recovery, the problematic relationship between humans and nature would have figured heavily in the minds of Kurosawa and his audience. In other words, listening to the meticulously crafted soundscapes of Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala allows scholars to reevaluate its importance within Kurosawa’s career and Japanese history more generally.
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Chester, Verity, Neil James, Ian Rogers, Jackie Grace, and Regi Alexander. "Family Experiences of Psychiatric Services for their Relative with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." In Oxford Textbook of the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, 265–74. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198794585.003.0025.
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Accessing treatment for a relative with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities requiring assessment or treatment from services can be extremely difficult for families and carers. Adverse past experiences can significantly affect the development of trust and relationships with present services and professionals. Listening and acknowledging families’ past and present concerns, alongside providing transparent information and reassurance about their relatives’ care, provides a foundation for starting positive relationships. Families are valuable in helping clinicians understand their patients fully and this helps the recovery process. Services have a duty to work collaboratively with patients’ families, in order to improve treatment outcomes including quality of life. Occasionally, there may be concerns in relation to the patient being the victim of familial financial, emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse. In such instances, safeguarding processes must be followed.
Conference papers on the topic "Listening concerns"
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Chhetri, Chola, and Vivian Genaro Motti. "Privacy Concerns about Smart Home Devices: A Comparative Analysis between Non-Users and Users." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002207.
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Privacy concerns of smart home device (SHD) users have been largely explored but those of non-users are under-explored. The success of smart home technology comes to fruition only when concerns of both users and non-users are addressed. Understanding of non-user concerns is essential to inform the design of user-centric privacy-preserving SHDs, facilitate acceptance, and bridge the digital divide between non-users and users. To address this gap, we conducted a survey of SHD non-users and comparatively analyzed their privacy concerns with those of users.Methods: We used university email list-servs, snowball sampling and random sampling methods to recruit participants (n=91) for an IRB-approved online survey, titled ‘smart home study’. Our pre-tested questionnaire asked about SHD (non-)usage, privacy concerns (open-ended), suggestions for developers and demographics. We followed a mixed-methods approach to analyze privacy concerns (qualitative/thematic), explore non-use reasons (qualitative/thematic), compare non-users and users concerns (quantitative), and analyze design suggestions (qualitative/thematic). Results: Thematic analysis of privacy concerns of non-users (n=41) and users (n=50) by two researchers performing open-coding (Cohen’s kappa = 0.8) resulted in 17 codes. We then performed axial coding to generate three thematic areas of privacy concerns. The first theme was ‘data collection concerns’ which included five codes: recording audio/video, tracking occupancy, listening to private conversations, monitoring usage/behavior, and identity theft. The second theme was ‘data sharing concerns’ which included four codes: selling data, third party data access, leakage without consent, and marketing data. The third theme was ‘data protection concerns’ which included eight codes: hacking, data handling, protecting data, secondary use, aggregation, data abuse, data loss, and fraud. The three privacy concerns themes belong to the personal communication and personal data privacy dimensions of privacy. Chi-square test between non-users and users showed the privacy concerns of non-users differed significantly (X2=8.46, p<0.05) from users. Non-users reported higher level of concerns in data collection and data protection themes than those of users (46% vs 24% and 34% vs 30% respectively). However, non-users reported fewer concerns in the data sharing theme than those of users (15% vs 28% respectively).Most non-users reported their non-use reason to be privacy concerns (68%). Other non-use reasons included lack of interest in SHDs (32%), cost (22%), lack of perceived usefulness (12%), insecurity or potential of hacking (10%), and perceived difficulty of usage (7%).The thematic analysis of participants’ suggestions for developers resulted in four main themes: (a) data anonymization and minimization, (b) data protection and security, (c) transparent data use policies, and (d) user-centric practices. Based on our findings, we recommend that developers address the data collection and data protection concerns to allow SHD non-users to consider using them. In addition, we recommend addressing data sharing concerns to retain trust of current users. We discuss some guidelines in the paper.Conclusion: This paper contributes by eliciting SHD non-user privacy concerns and provides insights on addressing the concerns, which will be useful for developers towards the design of user-centric privacy-preserving SHDs.
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Azman, Amanda S., and David S. Yantek. "Estimating the Performance of Sound Restoration Hearing Protectors by Using the Speech Intelligibility Index." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37736.
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Despite advances in engineering noise controls and the use of administrative controls, miners are still dependent on hearing protection devices for prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. However, miners often raise concerns about the audibility of spoken communication when wearing conventional hearing protectors. Electronic technologies that selectively process and restore sounds from outside of hearing protectors have been suggested as a partial remedy to the audibility problem. To assess the potential benefits of this technology for miners, NIOSH tested the impact of nine electronic sound restoration hearing protectors on speech intelligibility in selected mining background noises. Because of the number of devices and potential settings of those devices, it was necessary to narrow the choices before conducting human subject testing. This was done by testing the nine devices on an acoustic test fixture (ATF) to acquire one-third-octave-band data, and then calculating the speech intelligibility index (SII) to determine estimates of performance across device, noise and setting. The estimates of speech intelligibility obtained with the SII are highly correlated with the intelligibility of speech under adverse listening conditions such as noise, reverberation, and filtering. The results of fixture based testing indicate that performance varies little between most devices, with few showing exceptionally good or poor estimated speech intelligibility. The most significant differences in estimated performance using the devices were between the different noise sources used, regardless of device or setting. The findings of this research were used to select the devices and settings for subsequent human subject based speech intelligibility testing. The human subject testing results largely concurred with the findings from the acoustic test fixture testing and calculation of speech intelligibility index. Specifically, variations in background noise led to the greatest differences in speech intelligibility.
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Shmuelof, Shoshan, and Michal Hefer. "THE LOST ART OF LISTENING." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end029.
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"One of the functions of education is the transmission of culture from generation to generation. (Taba, 1962). Yet it is questionable whether music educators are fulfilling this mission... Listeners at concerts of classical music (whether of Western or other traditions) are dwindling and the crowd that frequents the concert halls is mostly older. It seems that educational policy does not invest enough to preserve the gifts of previous generations. In many schools, teachers prefer to please their students by focusing on music that the students listen to (with great enjoyment and expertise without any need for guidance from their teachers) rather than challenging them to become acquainted with musical worlds that are not closed to them and thus complex, classical music is pushed to the margins. Yes, the ones who composed this music were mostly men, mostly white and are mostly dead. However, these unfortunate facts do not negate the fact that the music they created is a gift. In this paper/presentation we will argue that what prevents teachers from introducing their pupils to this music is not political correctness but rather the absence of teaching methods that make listening to unfamiliar music challenging, engaging and fun. This introduce pedagogies for teaching classical music in primary schools and preschool. The rationale behind the methods will be discussed while looking at the applications in teaching complex music among elementary and preschool children. One of the innovative methods for teaching is the ""Musical Mirror Method"" which was developed by Veronika Cohen (Cohen, 1997). This method is a tool for teaching music listening using simple movements. Based on the principle that movement gestures are the source of musical gestures, the movements project into space, make visible the underlying source of the musical events. The children observe, and join in the movements of the mirror which to evoke an intuitive and spontaneous understanding of the music. As children develop their own musical mirrors, they learn to reflect deeply about their own musical experience, their hearing of the particular piece. Alternatively, graphic representations are presented to the children and later developed by them. Children play, sing compose in these lessons – all develop familiarity with great music and some feel a deep connection which can enrich their lives. They learn how to construct music out of sound."
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Vidulin, Sabina. "MUSIC TEACHING AND LISTENING TO ART MUSIC IN THE FUNCTION OF STUDENTS’ HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT." In SCIENCE AND TEACHING IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT. FACULTY OF EDUCATION IN UŽICE, UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/stec20.391v.
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Music is a part of a child’s everyday life. In family and in preschool institutions, its function is different from the one in school. Music teaching influences the overall students’ development, which can be seen from a pedagogical and artistic perspective. It is aimed at acquiring knowledge and developing students’ skills in the field of art; it encourages aesthetic education, but also the preservation of historical and cultural heritage. The domain in which this is mostly realized is listening to music and music understanding. With the intention of bringing art music closer to children and young people, its more intense experiencing and understanding, the paper points to the necessity for an interdisciplinary and correlative relationship of music with other subjects, but also musical activities with each other. Since the author intends to indicate the importance of creating new didactical strategies for music teaching lessons, the Stage-English-Music concepts, the Listening to Music-Music Making model and the Cognitive-emotional approach to listening to music are briefly described. These strategies for the improvement of music listening are based on an interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approach, depending on whether they include extracurricular activities in the work (e.g. English and drama education), or the work is carried out within musical activities such as singing, playing, or dancing with musicologically, but also humanistically oriented outcomes. Practice and research indicate that in addition to acquiring musical knowledge and developing musical skills, multimodal approaches affect students’ holistic development.
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Dai, Xiyan, and Lee Yu-Chi. "Investigating preferred listening levels when using noise-canceling headphones among male graduate students." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001705.
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Many pieces of the literature showed that the potential risk of hearing loss was increasing among the general public, especially in adolescents and young adults, caused by prolonged exposure to loud music. Users tended to listen to music with a higher volume in noisy environments (e.g., intersections and subways) than in quiet ones. According to the WHO-ITU standard level for adults (80 dBA for 40 hours a week), the listening habits worse than the recommended standard might cause hearing damage. At present, the increasingly popular Noise-canceling headphones (NCHs) can reduce environmental noise to a certain extent. Whether users would lower the volume of music when using an NCH is a concern of the research. NCHs have different listening modes for dealing with ambient noise. Hence, the primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different NCHs modes on pedestrians’ preferred listening levels (PLLs) in a noisy environment and to evaluate whether their listening levels were in a safe range.Methods: Fifteen male graduate students with normal-hearing ability participated in the study. The independent variable was the modes of NCHs, including Noise Cancellation (NC), Off, and Transparency modes. The PLLs were determined by each participant and recorded as the dependent variable. Before the experiments, participants were asked to report their headphone-use habits for assessing whether they exceeded a safe listening level. During the experiments, the ambient noise of heavy traffic intersections was played through two speakers. Participants were asked to put on the headphone with a specific mode by random orders. Subsequently, each participant was requested to adjust the volume of the music until it “sounded best.” The measurements were repeated twice for the three modes. A one-way repeated measure ANOVA with Bonferroni pairwise comparisons was used for statistical analysis. Results: The results indicated that the headphone modes significantly impacted the PLLs (p<0.001). Based on the Bonferroni pairwise comparisons, participants selected the highest PLLs with the Transparency mode (67.21 dBA), followed by the Off mode (60.77 dBA), and NC mode (55.83 dBA). Besides, the self-reported results showed that the usage of headphones was five days per week and three hours per day on average. From the results, the PLLs selected by the subjects were all lower than 80 dBA, and the average listening time did not exceed 40 hours per week. It implied that the participants' listening habits were at safe listening levels. Conclusion: In a noisy environment, different headphone modes have impacted on PLLs adjustment. The PLLs selected with the NC mode are significantly lower than those with Off mode and Transparency mode. The findings of this study suggested that using NC mode in a noisy environment could reduce the risk of hearing loss compared to the other headphone modes.
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El Hajj, Tracey. "Network Sonification and the Algorhythmics of Everyday Life." In ICAD 2021: The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display. icad.org: International Community for Auditory Display, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2021.027.
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Today, public concern with the extent to which they influence people’s routines, and how much they affect cultures and societies, has grown substantially. This paper argues that, by listening to networks, people can begin to apprehend, and even comprehend, the complex, ostensibly “magical” nature of network communications. One problem is that listening semantically to networks is incredibly difficult, if not impossible. Networks are very noisy, and they do not, for instance, use alphabetic language for internal or external communication. For the purpose of interpreting networks, I propose “tactical network sonification” (TNS), a technique that focuses on making the materiality of networks sensibly accessible to the general public, especially people who are not technology experts. Using an electromagnetic transduction device—Shintaro Miyazaki and Martin Howse’s Detektor—TNS results in crowded sound clips that represent the complexity of network infrastructure, through the many overlapping rhythms and layers of sound that each clip contains.
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Oforiwaa, Priscilla Obeng, Zhang Chao, Liang Manchun, Su Guofeng, and Wang Jiahao. "Public Engagement of Nuclear Energy in China: The Characteristics of Public Knowledge, Risk Perception, Trust Perception and Environmental Concern." In 2020 International Conference on Nuclear Engineering collocated with the ASME 2020 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone2020-16064.
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Abstract Nuclear energy has been regarded as a controversial energy option to reduce carbon emissions, alleviate global warming and build a low-carbon society due to the public perception of nuclear energy. Public perception and acceptance are vital to the development of nuclear energy. However, the public has many misunderstandings and misconceptions about nuclear energy. To change the way that the public view nuclear energy, this paper attempts to build an engagement model that shifts from a oneway information transfer with a focus on changing people’s minds in a single interaction, to a two-way dialogue rooted in listening, respect, and building long-term relationships that would shift understanding on a scientific issue over time. Based on a survey conducted on residents in China, we offer a research hypothesis that describes the connection between public engagement, public knowledge, perceived risk, perceived trust and environmental concern. This study indicated that public knowledge is positively related to environmental concern and public engagement but not significantly related to perceived risks. Meanwhile, this study also demonstrated the positive effect of environmental concern, perceived trust on public engagement. Centered on the results, we make corresponding policy to increase public engagement.
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Băcilă, Bogdan Ioan, and Hyunkook Lee. "Subjective Elicitation Of Listener-Perspective-Dependent Spatial Attributes in a Rerverberant Room, using the Repertory Grid Technique." In ICAD 2019: The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2019.073.
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Spatial impression is a widely researched topic in concert hall acoustics and spatial audio display. In order to provide the listener with plausible spatial impression in virtual and augmented reality applications, especially in the 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DOF) context, it is first important to understand how humans perceive various acoustical cues from different listening perspectives in a real space. This paper presents a fundamental subjective study conducted on the perception of spatial impression for multiple listener positions and orientations. An in-situ elicitation test was carried out using the repertory grid technique in a reverberant concert hall. Cluster analysis revealed a number of conventional spatial attributes such as source width, environmental width and envelopment. However, reverb directionality and echo perception were also found to be salient spatial properties associated with changes in the listener’s position and head orientation.
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André, L., R. Coutellier, C. Maïs, and A. Bonnaud. "New technologies of human/machine interaction: a prospective study in the military naval context." In International Ship Control Systems Symposium. IMarEST, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24868/issn.2631-8741.2020.003.
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Today, military defense vessels are equipped with many systems that allow sailors to interact with each other or with their digital equipments. These systems are relatively efficient and allow mariners to perform their tasks efficiently and securely. It is important to identify new technologies that sailors can interact with, in the future. An evaluation must then be conducted to ensure compliance with their usefulness, usability and acceptability. This paper discusses how to study, upstream, various innovative technologies in order to identify the positive and negative points and to conduct a human factors evaluation following a user-centric approach, replicating operational conditions. The paper focuses then on three widely available technologies. The first is the eye-control, which allows an operator to interact with a digital system thanks to the movements and fixation of his eyes. This system allows validating information being displayed on a screen or to navigate in an interface when the operator has his hands busy with another task. Different interactions are available today (scrolling, clicking, and displaying a keyboard to write using the eyes ...). However, various limitations were highlighted during the first human factors evaluations, for example visual fatigue or calibration of the eye-tracking system, which is also sensitive to the movements of the operator and those of the platform on which it is based. The second and the third technologies presented are related because they both concern communications. In very noisy environments or when there are different sound sources, it is sometimes difficult for operators to be attentive to all auditory information or to be heard effectively. Bone conduction systems (for listening and for expression) allow the operator to be attentive to different sound sources while speaking audibly. As for the bone conduction listening system, the sound vibrations conducted by the bones reproduce a listening equivalent to classical hearing. Concerning the throat microphone, the treatment of the waves captured at the throat makes it possible to transmit a clear sound, without any environmental interference, which makes it possible to guarantee the good intelligibility of the speech. This paper concludes on how these studies from the human factor service of the research and development department of Naval Group (France) are related to advance research in these areas as well as trials for future equipment that can be developed on board for naval defense vessels.
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Schiemer, Greg. "Satellite Gamelan: Microtonal Sonification Using a Large Consort of Mobile Phones." In The 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display. Arlington, Virginia: The International Community for Auditory Display, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2016.051.
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This paper describes an approach to sonification based on an iPhone app created for multiple users to explore a microtonal scale generated from harmonics using the combination product set method devised by tuning theorist Erv Wilson. The app is intended for performance by a large consort of hand-held mobile phones where phones are played collaboratively in a shared listening space. Audio consisting of handbells and sine tones is synthesised independently on each phone. Sound projection from each phone relies entirely on venue acoustics unaided by mains-powered amplification. It was designed to perform a microtonal composition called Transposed Dekany which takes the form of a chamber concerto in which a consort of players explore the properties of an microtonal scale. The consort subdivides into families of instruments that play in different pitch registers assisted by processes that are enabled and disabled at various stages throughout the performance. The paper outlines Wilson’s method, describes its current implementation and considers hypothetical sonification scenarios for implementation using different data with potential applications in the physical world.
Reports on the topic "Listening concerns"
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Butler, Nadia, and Soha Karam. Evidence Review: COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance by Key Influencers in the MENA Region - Teachers and Healthworkers. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), November 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.039.
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As COVID-19 vaccines have been deployed and scaled, concerns about vaccine acceptance have emerged. Effective management of the virus requires that communities everywhere buy into the public health measures designed to protect them, including vaccines. Low acceptance presents a serious challenge for achieving sufficient coverage to reduce circulation of the virus and the risk of new variants emerging. Surveys conducted early in the pandemic showed that the Middle East region had one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rates globally. The low acceptance is driven by specific factors in the region and its different countries and populations; these factors need to be taken into account when formulating policy, programmes and interventions. This review synthesises evidence on vaccine acceptance among two key groups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: teachers and health workers. It draws from academic studies most of which were cross-sectional studies, largely conducted between February 2020 and June 2021, and grey literature reports, including social listening reports. This review is intended to inform strategies for risk communications and community engagement (RCCE) relating to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, with the aim of boosting confidence in and acceptance of the vaccines among these groups across the region. It is part of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) series on social science considerations relating to COVID-19 vaccines and was developed for SSHAP by Anthrologica (Nadia Butler and Soha Karam) at the request of the UNICEF MENA Regional Office. It was reviewed by Rose Aynsley (WHO) Amaya Gillespie (UNICEF) and Olivia Tulloch (Anthrologica). The evidence review is the responsibility of SSHAP.
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COVID-19 consumer tracker survey Summary report (Waves 1 – 19). Food Standards Agency, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.gnu416.
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The Food Standards Agency commissioned social research to develop its evidence base on issues affecting consumers and businesses in order to inform its COVID-19 response. The COVID-19 consumer tracker ran for 19 months (19 waves) from April 2020 to October 2021, resulting in three reports (waves 1-5, 1-12 and 1-19). The monthly tracker was intended to understand consumers’ concerns around food insecurity and their experience of food unavailability, to understand and observe food behaviours that put consumers health and safety at risk and to understand the pattern and changes in food consumption and purchasing behaviours over the pandemic. The tracker has now been replaced with the ‘Consumer Insights Tracker’ (from November 2021 onwards) where similar measures are covered. Ipsos Mori were commissioned to track consumer attitudes through an omnibus survey. Bright Harbour were commissioned to produce qualitative reports on the lived experience of people living in food insecurity during COVID-19 and the impact on consumers’ engagement with the food system in June and July 2020. Additionally, we undertook in-house social media listening to support our insight gathering around the impact of COVID-19 on food safety, food authenticity and food regulation. In addition, the COVID-19 expert panel was set up to help identify the most important implications of the COVID-19 outbreak in relation to food policy. The FSA drew on its networks of leading researchers and industry experts between April and June 2020