2021 Academic Year opening speech

Opening Speech of Mr. James

The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Academic Stress of Students of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences in the Academic Year 2020-2021

Introduction: Medical students are exposed to many different stressors that endanger their health. Objective: Since increasing self-esteem is one of the effective factors in coping with stress. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between self-esteem and academic stress of students of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences during 2020-2021. Materials and Methods: This descrip...

Research and Infrastructure Challenges for Applications and Services in the Year 2021

The Applications and Services in the Year 2021 workshop was successfully organized on January 27-28, 2016 in Washington DC through funding support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the workshop was to foster discussions that bring together applications researchers in multidisciplinary areas, and developers/operators of research infrastructures at both national, regional, u...

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

Mining a Year of Speech

The availability of large text corpora has revolutionized linguistics and is of great value in many other areas of scholarship. Our “Mining a Year of Speech” project, funded by the transatlantic “Digging into Data” competition, aims to do the same for spoken language. We present a new generation of speech corpora, characterised by aggregation of datasets, annotated using forced alignment and ex...