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A Cross-Corpus Speech-Based Analysis of Escalating Negative Interactions

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022
The monitoring of an escalating negative interaction has several benefits, particularly in security, (mental) health, and group management. The speech signal is particularly suited to this, as aspects of escalation, including emotional arousal, are ...
Iulia Lefter, Alice Baird, Lukas Stappen, Björn W. Schuller, Björn W. Schuller   +4 more
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Customers as decision-makers: strategic environmental assessment in the private sector [PDF]

, 2007
Despite its diversification and global spread, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) remains limited mainly to activities characterised by well-defined planning processes, typically within the public sector.
Byron H., Caratti P., Cole G. A., Dalal-Clayton B., Ertel J., Goulty G., Jay S., Jay S., Jay S., John J., Jones C., Kickert W., Kørnøv L., Marsden S., Marshall R., Marshall R., Nilsson M., Nitz T., Owens S., Partidário M., Partidário M., Partidário M., Schmidt M., Sheate W., Stephen Jay, Thompson J., Thérivel R., Thérivel R., Thérivel R., Verheem R., von Seht H., Wood C.   +31 more
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Computational social science in smart power systems: Reliability, resilience, and restoration

Energy Conversion and Economics, 2023
Smart grids are typically modelled as cyber–physical power systems, with limited consideration given to the social aspects. Specifically, traditional power system studies tend to overlook the behaviour of stakeholders, such as end‐users.
Jaber Valinejad, Lamine Mili, Xinghuo Yu, C. Natalie van der Wal, Yijun Xu   +4 more
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A Geometric Classification of World Urban Road Networks

Urban Science, 2022
This article presents a method to uncover universal patterns and similarities in the urban road networks of the 80 most populated cities in the world. To that end, we used degree distribution, link length distribution, and intersection angle distribution
Mohamed Badhrudeen, Sybil Derrible, Trivik Verma, Amirhassan Kermanshah, Angelo Furno   +4 more
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Methodology for Participatory GIS Risk Mapping and Citizen Science for Solotvyno Salt Mines

Remote Sensing, 2018
The Horizon 2020 interim evaluation (2017) indicates a steep increase in citizen engagement in European Union Citizen Science (CS) projects, with less than 1% in budgetary terms and minimal influence.
Abby Muricho Onencan, Kenny Meesters, Bartel Van de Walle   +2 more
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Agent-based modeling for data-driven enforcement: combining empirical data with behavioral theory for scenario-based analysis of inspections

Data & Policy
Effective enforcement of laws and regulations hinges heavily on robust inspection policies. While data-driven approaches to testing the effectiveness of these policies are gaining popularity, they suffer significant drawbacks, particularly a lack of ...
Eunice Koid, Haiko van der Voort, Martijn Warnier   +2 more
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Making Sense of Multi-Actor Social Collaboration in Building Information Modelling Level 2 Projects: A Case in Malaysia

Construction Economics and Building, 2021
Despite the diversity of thinking among the scholars on building information modelling (BIM) collaboration, there is a paucity of studies that capture the dimension of social collaboration in BIM projects.
Raja Nor Husna Raja Mohd Noor, Che Khairil Izam Che Ibrahim, Sheila Belayutham   +2 more
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AFFECTIVE COMPUTING AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR CAR DRIVING SIMULATORS

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2017
Car simulators are essential for training and for analyzing the behavior, the responses and the performance of the driver. Augmented Reality (AR) is the technology that enables virtual images to be overlaid on views of the real world. Affective Computing
Dragoș Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz
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Predicting Multi-actor collaborations using Hypergraphs [PDF]

, 2014
Social networks are now ubiquitous and most of them contain interactions involving multiple actors (groups) like author collaborations, teams or emails in an organizations, etc.
Chandra, Abhishek, Sharma, Ankit, Srivastava, Jaideep   +2 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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