PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA Tracking International Publics with Goethe

Goethe for prosody

In this paper, we describe the way in which a recording of Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” published on a multimedia CDROM [7] was made accessible for prosody research. The recording is interesting for prosody research because of its prosodic richness as it displays a large variety of registers and speaking styles. Application areas are: development of prosody models for German TTS, un...

PUBLICS AND MARKETS What’s wrong with Neoliberalism?

Neoliberalism has become a key object of analysis in human geography in the last decade. Although the words neoliberal and neoliberalism have been around for a long while, it is only since the end of the 1990s that they have taken on the aura of grand theoretical terms. 'Neoliberalism' emerges as an object of conceptual and empirical reflection in the process of restoring to view a sense of pol...

Motion Tracking Project Synopsis

The Skyball Tracking Project

The International HapMap Project

The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in the public domain. An international consortium is developing a map of these patterns across the genome by determining the genotypes of one million or more sequence variants, their frequencies and the degree of association...