Jiang Liu

Knowing and feeling: The role of semantic valence in emotional prosody perception for L2 Chinese learners

Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, the same acoustic feature, pitch, conveys both semantic valence and emotional prosody. The effects of semantic valence on bilingual emotional prosody perception are mixed, with some studies reporting semantic facilitation and others showing interfere...

Preoperative CT-Derived Stone Burden Metrics for Predicting Stone-Free Status and Operative Time After Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery

Objectives: Non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) is used before retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) to describe stone size, location, and complexity, but the best way to summarize stone burden remains unsettled. Therefore, we compared multidimensional NCCT-derived burden metr...