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Multimodal Engagement Assessment in Children During Invented Story Paradigm With a Social Robot

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal framework is proposed to assess children's engagement during storytelling interactions with a social robot. Gaze, physiological, and behavioral data are combined and validated against observer ratings. An automated gaze‐labeling strategy is introduced, and supervised classifiers achieve high accuracy. The study supports scalable engagement
Laura Fiorini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigation of foreign Direct investment risk and hedging [PDF]

open access: yes
Instruments of risk mitigation play an important role in managing country risk within the foreign direct investment (FDI) decision. Our study assesses country risk by state-dependent preferences and introduces futures contracts as a tool of risk ...
Wahl, Jack E., Broll, Udo
core  

European Investment Bank Activity Report 2021

open access: yes, 2022
Our flagship report illustrates how the European Investment Bank Group confronted two great threats in 2021, the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, even as the challenges posed by development grew more urgent.
European Investment Bank
core   +1 more source

Risks of investment projects: assessment and management

open access: yesПутеводитель предпринимателя, 2020
The current period of development of the real sector of the Russian economy is characterized by growth in investment activity of industrial enterprises, and in this connection, the importance of research aimed at developing science-based methods of ...

doaj  

Systemic risk from investment similarities

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2019
Network theory proved recently to be useful in the quantification of many properties of financial systems. The analysis of the structure of investment portfolios is a major application since their eventual correlation and overlap impact the actual risk by individual investors.
Delpini D.   +3 more
openaire   +8 more sources

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

Investment, Openness, and Country Risk [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this study is to draw attention to the linkages between country risk and the openness of an economy, and to demonstrate that in the long run the openness of an economy is endogenously determined by the interaction between endowments and ...
Joshua Aizenman
core  

Investment barriers in the European Union 2023

open access: yes
Discover key insights from the Investment barriers report 2023, an authoritative assessment by the European Investment Bank Group on investment hurdles in the European Union.
European Investment Bank
core   +1 more source

Impact of Simultaneous Jumps in Mortality and Asset Markets on GMDB Riders

open access: yesRisks
This study investigates the impact of jointly modeling jumps in asset prices and mortality rates on the valuation of insurance guarantees. Mortality dynamics are specified using two extended frameworks based on the classical Lee–Carter model, with and ...
Amin Hassan Zadeh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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