Former Socialist Countries Open their Past to Europe (SCOPE)
The project “Former Socialist Countries Open their Past to Europe” (SCOPE) focuses on gathering cultural heritage (CH) in the form of documents and personal testimonies from the former socialist countries (FSC) in the Danube Region. The main goals are to create an extensive database (DB) of the publicly available and newly collected documents, and to develop a user-friendly application for data search and analysis. The collection of available documents will be examined by group of historians to select significant CH movements on a specific geographical area. Innovative tools, SCOPE website and application, will provide effective research and analysis of documents in a new, standardized database. SCOPE tools allow quick searching of all available documents using keywords or phrases; classification of results according to geographical position/dates/types/historical impact; and graphical illustration of activities against the socialist/communist regimes through the defined period of time. The novelty of the project is the use of the ‘citizen science’ approach to acquire personal testimonies of cultural opposition movements during the communist period through SCOPE tools. An interactive part of SCOPE application will collect users’ feedback in order to analyze if the documents serve the purpose of awareness raising on the anti-communist past among EU citizens.
Storying stories: a narrative approach to in-depth interview conversations
there was nothing about sustainability and recycling and composting and worm farming, permaculture and it was all about ahm (pause) just a lot of theory really and not much practical and studying the environment but I think if, you know, you want to care about the environment you need to live sustainably with it and ... What happened? so 1 was a bit disappointed that wasn't in the course and all the people 1 knew who really care about the environment aren't at the uni. There's all these sorts of things happening with permaculture gardens and community things I wanted to try and bring them together a bit in the project I'm doing. I really believe in it and I wouldn't have been able to do it as an
Early Stage Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Using HOS Features of EEG Signals
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease that causes involuntary muscle movements and tremor among other symptoms. One approach to diagnosing this disease is by analyzing the electroencephalography (EEG) signals of the patients. However, due to the complexity of this type of signal, more advanced feature extraction and classification methods are required. The goal of this study is to combine six well-known features in EEG analysis with eight higher order statistical features and use them for classification of early stage PD (1st and 2nd stage) from a healthy control group. After extracting the required features, eight classifiers are employed to classify the signals.