The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Art Research

Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.

The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 1

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
New Science ◽  
Ageing Research ◽  
Active And Healthy Ageing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Art Research

This is the first of two volumes arising from the ground-breaking New Dynamics of Ageing Research Programme. While the Programme produced many scientific papers and several project-based books this is the only place where most of the projects are represented in specially commissioned chapters that not only report the key findings of each piece of research but also place those findings in a wider context. This volume covers a wide range of state-of-the-art research on ageing, with a specific focus on active and healthy ageing, design for ageing and global issues. Each chapter contains a summary of key findings. This book follows directly from the multi-disciplinary first volume in the Policy Press NDA Series, The New Science of Ageing.

scholarly journals A Design for Addressing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1108
Author(s):  
Emin Zeki Baskent ◽  
José Guilherme Borges ◽  
Jan Kašpar ◽  
Meryem Tahri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Forest Ecosystem Management ◽  
Art Research

Forest policy and decision-makers are challenged by the need to balance the increasing demand for multiple ecosystem services while addressing the impacts of natural disturbances (e.g., wildfires, droughts, wind, insect attacks) and global change scenarios (e.g., climate change) on its potential supply. This challenge motivates the development of a framework for incorporating concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services in multiple criteria management planning contexts. Thus, the paper focused on both the analysis of the current state-of-the art research in forest management planning and the development of a conceptual framework to accommodate various components in a forest management process. On the basis of a thorough recent classification of forest management planning problems and the state-of-the-art research, we defined the key dimensions of the framework and the process. The emphasis was on helping to identify how concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services may be analyzed and better understood by forest ecosystem management planning. This research discusses the potential of contemporary management planning approaches to address multiple forest ecosystem services. It highlights the need for a multi-level perspective and appropriate spatial resolution to integrate multiple ecosystem services. It discusses the importance of methods and tools that may help support stakeholders’ involvement and public participation in hierarchical planning processes. The research addresses the need of methods and tools that may encapsulate the ecological, economic, and social complexity of forest ecosystem management to provide an efficient plan, information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services, and the sensitivity of the plan to uncertain parameters (e.g., prices, climate change) on time.

Digital Characters in Cultural Heritage Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Vosinakis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Motivation And Engagement ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Character Design ◽  
User Motivation

Digital characters are software entities that look and act like real or imaginary creatures in a computer-generated environment. They are considered an important element of cultural heritage applications that can increase user motivation and engagement in various ways. This paper presents a review of the use of digital characters for communicating and disseminating cultural heritage. It explores the wide range of applications that make use of digital characters, and attempts to identify how the characters are used, what are their main features, and how are they contributing to the overall experience. The aim of this review is to inform about the range of possible features and use cases to consider, and to identify the positive aspects, drawbacks and critical issues of using digital characters. The paper presents an overview of current state of the art in digital character design and implementation approaches, the usage of characters in cultural heritage applications arranged in a set of dimensions, and a discussion about prospects and pitfalls of digital character technology.

scholarly journals State of FAIRness in ESFRI Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 230-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wittenburg ◽  
Franciska de Jong ◽  
Dieter van Uytvanck ◽  
Massimo Cocco ◽  
Keith Jeffery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Fair Principles ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Research Facilities ◽  
Distributed Infrastructure

Since 2009 initiatives that were selected for the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures started working to build research infrastructures for a wide range of research disciplines. An important result of the strategic discussions was that distributed infrastructure scenarios were now seen as “complex research facilities” in addition to, for example traditional centralised infrastructures such as CERN. In this paper we look at five typical examples of such distributed infrastructures where many researchers working in different centres are contributing data, tools/services and knowledge and where the major task of the research infrastructure initiative is to create a virtually integrated suite of resources allowing researchers to carry out state-of-the-art research. Careful analysis shows that most of these research infrastructures worked on the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability dimensions before the term “FAIR” was actually coined. The definition of the FAIR principles and their wide acceptance can be seen as a confirmation of what these initiatives were doing and it gives new impulse to close still existing gaps. These initiatives also seem to be ready to take up the next steps which will emerge from the definition of FAIR maturity indicators. Experts from these infrastructures should bring in their 10-years' experience in this definition process.

The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 2

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ageing Research ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Art Research

This is the second volume arising from the ground-breaking New Dynamics of Ageing Research Programme. While the Programme produced many scientific papers and several project-based books this (and its companion volume) is the only place where most of the projects are represented in specially commissioned chapters. Each of these reports the key findings from each research project and places them in a wider context. Each chapter also contains a summary of key findings. Like its predecessor this book covers a wide range of state-of-the-art research on ageing, with a specific focus on autonomy and independence, the biology of ageing, nutrition in later life and representations of ageing.

scholarly journals Go with the (Lymph) Flow?

Phlebologie ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (05) ◽  
pp. 304-307
Author(s):  
Peter Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Interstitial Fluid ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Art Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into

My inspiration for a career in lymphatics came from two sources: the first was a visit to the Foeldi clinic and the second was a visit to Professor Fredi Bollinger’s angiology lab in Zurich. These back to back visits in 1984 gave me insight into the best practice in lymphoedema treatment at the time as well as state of the art research techniques. On my return, I unashamedly introduced the Foeldi principles of lymphoedema treatment to the UK. I also set about setting up Fluorescence microlymphangiography in my new lab. Also present during my visit to Zurich was Hugo Partsch who, as a fellow dermatologist, has been very influential ever since as a role model, mentor and friend.The idiom ‘go with the flow’ means go with the prevailing attitude or do what the majority are doing even if you disagree. There is an implication one does not really believe it is necessarily the right thing to do but it is the easiest thing to do. There is a tendency currently with interstitial fluid dynamics to ‘go with the flow’ despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the accepted direction of flow is actually incorrect. As a result, the lymphatic system has been underestimated in its importance for the understanding and treatment of peripheral oedema.

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