Academic literature on the topic 'Multiple Consecutive Sentences'

Twenty profoundly deaf and 5 normal-hearing subjects produced 225 sustained vowels /a, i, u/ at different pitch levels and 75 phonetically balanced sentences, while vocal fold vibration was recorded through an electrolaryngograph (ELG). The utterances recorded on audio tape were judged by 10 experienced listeners on general voice quality, breathiness, hoarseness, and laryngeal strain on a 5-point scale. Seven parameters describing time-domain characteristics of the ELG-signal were extracted online by a special purpose computer system. Measurements were made over 500 consecutive vibratory cycles (10-cycle window), yielding a mean and standard deviation for each parameter per utterance. All data were submitted to analysis of variance and multiple regression analyses. Multiple correlations between glottal parameters and judged voice deviations varied between .46 and .70 indicating that overall prediction cannot reliably be based on these parameters, although severe cases of deaf voice deviations may be detectable.

Background: The role of the right temporal lobe in processing speech is not well understood. Although the left temporal lobe has long been recognized as critical for speech perception, there is growing evidence for right hemisphere involvement. To investigate whether the right temporal lobe is critical for auditory speech processing, we studied prospectively a normal-hearing patient who underwent consecutive right temporal lobe resections for treatment of medically intractable seizures. Purpose: To test the hypothesis that the right temporal lobe is critical for auditory speech processing. Research Design: We used a prospective, repeated-measure, single-case design. Auditory processing was evaluated using behavioral tests of speech recognition (words, sentences) under multiple listening conditions (e.g., quiet, background noise, etc.). Auditory processing of nonspeech sounds was measured by pitch pattern sequencing and environmental sound recognition tasks. Data Collection: Repeat behavioral testing was performed at four time points over a 2 yr period: before and after consecutive right temporal lobe resection surgeries. Results: Before surgery, the patient demonstrated normal speech recognition in quiet and under real-world listening conditions (background noise, filtered speech). After the initial right anterior temporal resection, speech recognition scores declined under adverse listening conditions, especially for the left ear, but remained largely within normal limits. Following resection of the right superior temporal gyrus 1 yr later, speech recognition in quiet and nonspeech sound processing (pitch patterns, environmental sounds) remained intact. However, speech recognition under adverse listening conditions was severely impaired. Conclusions: The right superior temporal gyrus appears to be critical for auditory processing of speech under real-world listening conditions.

In today's digital world, rapid technological advancements continue to lessen the burden of tasks for individuals. Among these tasks is communication across perceived language barriers. Indeed, increased attention has been drawn to American Sign Language (ASL) recognition in recent years. Camera-based and motion detection-based methods have been researched extensively; however, there remains a divide in communication between ASL users and non-users. Therefore, this research team proposes the use of a novel wireless sensor (Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar) to help bridge the gap in communication. In short, this device sends out signals that detect the user's body positioning in space. These signals then reflect off the body and back to the sensor, developing thousands of cloud points per second, indicating where the body is positioned in space. These cloud points can then be examined for movement over multiple consecutive time frames using a cell division algorithm, ultimately showing how the body moves through space as it completes a single gesture or sentence. At the end of the project, 95% accuracy was achieved in one-object prediction as well as 80% accuracy on cross-object prediction with 30% other objects' data introduced on 19 commonly used gestures. There are 30 samples for each gesture per person from three persons.

AbstractThis project explores three classes of human action through an investigation of long-distance coarticulation, defined here as the articulatory influence of one phonetic element (e.g., consonant or vowel) on another across more than one intervening element. Our first experiment investigated anticipatory vowel-to-vowel (VV) coarticulation in English. The second experiment was patterned after the first but deals instead with anticipatory location-to-location (LL) effects in American Sign Language (ASL). The sign experiment also incorporated a non-linguistic manual action, permitting a comparison of effects not only between spoken and signed language, but also between linguistic and non-linguistic manual actions.For the spoken-language study, sentences were created in which multiple consecutive schwas (target vowels) were followed by various context vowels. Eighteen English speakers were recorded as they repeated each sentence six times, and statistical tests were performed to determine the extent to which target vowel formant frequencies were influenced differently by different context vowels. For some speakers, significant effects of one vowel on another were found across as many as five intervening segments. In the sign study, motion-capture technology was used to investigate LL coarticulation in the signing of five ASL users. Some evidence was found of significant LL coarticulatory influence of one sign on another across as many as three intervening signs. However, LL effects overall were weaker and less pervasive than the VV effects found in the spoken-language study. The outcomes in the sign study's linguistic and non-linguistic conditions did not substantially differ. Collectively, these results support and complement previous research which has found that in comparisons of linguistic and non-linguistic manual and oral actions, movement patterns associated with oral and manual actions differ appreciably, while the linguistic vs. non-linguistic distinction appears to show little or no influence.

Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de Direito<br>This dissertation explores the theme of Revocation of Parole in case of multiple sentences running consecutively. This investigation aims to provide an answer to the controversial legal treatment that should be given to the remainder of the sentence arising from the revocation, when the convict has multiple and autonomous sentences to serve, analytically exposing patented solutions in the jurisprudential acquis and presented by the most relevant doctrinal opinion. Focusing our attention on the position upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice in this quarrel and thereby filtering the interpretative thesis that underlies it, in light of the legal-constitutional principles informing Criminal Law.This dissertation explores the theme of Revocation of Parole in case of multiple sentences running consecutively. This investigation aims to provide an answer to the controversial legal treatment that should be given to the remainder of the sentence arising from the revocation, when the convict has multiple and autonomous sentences to serve, analytically exposing patented solutions in the jurisprudential acquis and presented by the most relevant doctrinal opinion. Focusing our attention on the position upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice in this quarrel and thereby filtering the interpretative thesis that underlies it, in light of the legal-constitutional principles informing Criminal Law.This dissertation explores the theme of Revocation of Parole in case of multiple sentences running consecutively. This investigation aims to provide an answer to the controversial legal treatment that should be given to the remainder of the sentence arising from the revocation, when the convict has multiple and autonomous sentences to serve, analytically exposing patented solutions in the jurisprudential acquis and presented by the most relevant doctrinal opinion. Focusing our attention on the position upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice in this quarrel and thereby filtering the interpretative thesis that underlies it, in light of the legal-constitutional principles informing Criminal Law.<br>A presente dissertação explora a temática da Revogação da Liberdade Condicional em caso de execução sucessiva de penas. Com esta investigação pretendemos avançar uma resposta ao controverso tratamento jurídico a dar à pena remanescente emergente da Revogação quando o condenado tem uma pluralidade de penas autónomas para cumprir, expondo analiticamente as soluções patenteadas no acervo jurisprudencial e apresentadas pela mais relevante opinião doutrinária. Atentamos, com especial relevância, na posição acolhida pelo Supremo Tribunal de Justiça nesta querela, fazendo perpassar a tese interpretativa que lhe subjaz pelo crivo dos princípios jurídico-constitucionais informadores do Direito Penal.A presente dissertação explora a temática da Revogação da Liberdade Condicional em caso de execução sucessiva de penas. Com esta investigação pretendemos avançar uma resposta ao controverso tratamento jurídico a dar à pena remanescente emergente da Revogação quando o condenado tem uma pluralidade de penas autónomas para cumprir, expondo analiticamente as soluções patenteadas no acervo jurisprudencial e apresentadas pela mais relevante opinião doutrinária. Atentamos, com especial relevância, na posição acolhida pelo Supremo Tribunal de Justiça nesta querela, fazendo perpassar a tese interpretativa que lhe subjaz pelo crivo dos princípios jurídico-constitucionais informadores do Direito Penal.A presente dissertação explora a temática da Revogação da Liberdade Condicional em caso de execução sucessiva de penas. Com esta investigação pretendemos avançar uma resposta ao controverso tratamento jurídico a dar à pena remanescente emergente da Revogação quando o condenado tem uma pluralidade de penas autónomas para cumprir, expondo analiticamente as soluções patenteadas no acervo jurisprudencial e apresentadas pela mais relevante opinião doutrinária. Atentamos, com especial relevância, na posição acolhida pelo Supremo Tribunal de Justiça nesta querela, fazendo perpassar a tese interpretativa que lhe subjaz pelo crivo dos princípios jurídico-constitucionais informadores do Direito Penal.

This chapter discusses the principle of custodial sentencing for multiple offenders, focusing primarily on the jurisdiction of England. In England, the tools for determining custodial sentences in the case of multiple offending are threefold: concurrent sentences, consecutive sentences, and the totality principle. Custodial sentences imposed on the same sentencing occasion in England cannot overlap. This means that the total sentence must always be arrived at through a combination of concurrent and/or consecutive sentences. The chapter first explains the rationale of the totality principle and its component parts before advancing the argument that totality should be regarded as the determining principle when sentencing for multiple offenses. It also considers the approach of some other jurisdictions and concludes by proposing necessary changes in the sentencing guidelines for England and Wales.

This chapter argues that the various instances of multiple-offense sentencing are sufficiently different, and that a sentencing system needs to develop a few different methodologies to address different multiple-offense situations. It first considers a number of issues relating to the sentencing of multiple offenders, with particular emphasis on concurrent and consecutive sentences, bulk discounts, proportionality and overall or total culpability, and the so-called culpability cap. It also distinguishes between low-order offenses and high-order offenses and examines the potential role, in limited circumstances, of being able to simply add two or three sentences to reach an acceptable level of overall culpability. Finally, it proposes a typology of multiple-offense sentencing with two scales, one based on the number of offenses and the other on the type of offense.