Background Despite being one of the plausible measures towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), various issues pertaining to pre-pregnancy clinic (PPC) services still need to be pondered upon. Based on this view, an attempt was made to identify and understand the barriers and weaknesses of current utilisation of pre-pregnancy care services, since its establishment and implementat...

Context The notion of social benefits appears most relevant and easy to distinguish where physical access is difficult – remote areas served by low-volume roads, tracks and paths. It is under these situations that the more basic of needs – secure food supplies, health and education services are arguably most threatened, since they are often associated with low population densities that makes an...

Accurate, consistent and timely cropland information over large areas is critical to solve food security issues. To predict and respond to food insecurity, global cropland products are readily available from coarse and medium spatial resolution earth observation data. However, while the use of satellite imagery has great potential to identify cropland areas and their specific types, the full po...

The massive growth of online social networking platforms in recent years has brought with it increasing privacy concerns. Rarely do long periods of time pass without some major privacy issue being brought to light. In this paper we present our study regarding media coverage of privacy issues in social networks, and the effects thereof. We gathered all news articles from over 30 German media sou...

In this article the issue of textual organisation is analysed from the viewpoint of thematicprogression. We propose to study the extent to which the different thematic networks orprogressions established within a text vary depending on the type of text, namely in thisinstance a specialised scientific text and a popularised account. Some possible didactic offshootsfrom this analy...

We have created a system that identifies musical keywords or themes. The system searches for all patterns composed of melodic (intervallic for our purposes) repetition in a piece. This process generally uncovers a large number of patterns, many of which are either uninteresting or only superficially important. Filters reduce the number or prevalence, or both, of such patterns. Patterns are then...

This paper explores methodological issues and policy implications concerning the implementation of the EU Environmental Noise Directive (END) across Member States. Methodologically, the paper focuses on two key thematic issues relevant to the Directive: (1) calculation methods and (2) mapping methods. For (1), the paper focuses, in particular, on how differing calculation methods influence nois...

This study examined the applicability of broader thematic categories for coding personal strivings, and tested the relationship between both dimensions and contents of personal goals and life satisfaction. We also applied the psychosocial theory of Erikson (1963) to evaluate personal goals. These issues were explored on a Hungarian youth sample of 48 subjects (mean age 23.4). Participants gener...

In this paper we present general strategies concerning Language Resources (LRs) – Written, Spoken and, recently, Multimodal – as developed within the ENABLER Thematic Network. LRs are a central component of the so-called “linguistic infrastructure” (the other key element being Evaluation), necessary for the development of any Human Language Technology (HLT) application. They play a critical rol...