The ISCF Healthy Ageing Round two Follow on Fund 2023 is part of the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award programme, funded by the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge and in collaboration with the US National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge. With Zinc's programme of support, the Follow on Funding will be used to build upon previous Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award funding, with the aim of commercialising research in symptom monitoring by people living with Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease affects 1% of adults over 60 years old, and due to an ageing population, its prevalence is increasing. The disease is characterised by movement symptoms and as there is currently no cure, living well with these symptoms is a priority. Movement symptoms vary during the course of a day and over the long-term, and being able to monitor these symptoms accurately and precisely has various benefits. These include informing current health status to help plan daily activities, and recording changes over time to enable optimization of treatment. Building on the work of the project team's Catalyst Funding, this project aims to develop our prototype device which accurately and precisely measures upper limb movement relevant to symptoms of Parkinson's disease, into a commercial venture. Thus, providing people living with Parkinson's with the opportunity to efficiently and easily monitor symptoms at home. Key elements of the project will involve; undertaking activities to ensure the continued development and commercialisation of the product, and the formation of a mission led company to deliver the product to users. The company will have user needs and benefits at it core with key stakeholders advising on product and company developments throughout the journey.

In this project, we propose using statistical approaches to the analysis of corpus data in order to discover Typical Usage Patterns (TUPs) and hence create a resource for the Disambiguation of Verbs by Collocation (DVC). This project goes beyond the current state-of-the-art represented by word sense disambiguation based on machine-readable dictionaries; typical valency-based approaches, which rarely pay attention to collocations; WordNet, which does not analyse lexical syntagmatics or collocates; and semantic role labelling, which tags mainly thematic roles (e.g. Agent, Patient, Location), rather than semantic types (e.g. Human, Firearm, Route). In our project we propose to associate meanings with normal usage patterns, rather than words in isolation, and to integrate lexical collocations with valency, providing an empirically well-founded resource for use in mapping meaning onto word use in free text. DVC will show the comparative frequency of each pattern of each verb, enabling programs to develop statistically based probabilistic reasoning about meanings, rather than trying to evaluate all possibilities equally. The internal structure of lexical arguments of verbs will be analysed using computational linguistics techniques, so that for example the relationship between "repair the roof" and "repair the damage" is recognized. Even though the nouns "roof" and "damage" have different semantic types, they activate the same meaning of "repair". Once this has been done, the structural relationship is applied to other verbs, e.g. "treat a patient" and "treat his injuries". In a pilot project at Masaryk University, Brno, CZ (http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/cpa/), involving analysis of 700 verbs, Prof. Hanks, the co-investigator of the project, showed that, while words may be highly ambiguous, patterns are rarely ambiguous and, furthermore, most uses of most verbs can be assigned unambiguously to a pattern. The existing verbs will be used to train a statistical method the output from which will be verified lexicographically. As the number of annotated verbs increases, the training procedure will be repeated and so improve the accuracy and speed of the annotation. At each step, the researchers employed by the project will analyse the computer output and correct errors. The objective of the DVC project is to analyse 3000 common English verbs and annotate at least 250 corpus lines for each verb. An in-depth data analysis of 100 verbs will be carried out. The resource will be made publicly available at the end of the project. The DVC project is based on and will contribute to the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE) of Prof. Hanks. TNE says, in essence, that a language consists of two interlinked systems of rules governing word use: a set of rules for the normal uses of words and a second-order set of rules governing the ways in which normal patterns are exploited. Exploitations are deliberately unusual utterances. They play a large role in linguistic change (word-meaning change). as today's exploitation may become tomorrow's norm. The value of DVC will be proven by textual entailment and paraphrasing, in this way demonstrating its potential usefulness in a large number of fields of computational linguistics which benefit from these two applications. The project will be disseminated using a wide variety of means. A fully user-friendly publicly available website will contain news about the progress of the project and will provide links to project research papers. It will also host interactive demos that will enable visitors to see the patterns collected and test the technologies developed in the project. Papers will be submitted to international conference and peer-reviewed journals. Evaluation conferences such as SEMEVAL and RTE will be used to assess the methods developed in this project in a standard environment. An important outcome of the project will be a monograph (theory, methodology, empirical findings).

This project will produce a collective biography of women who have represented England at the 41 Wembley international matches between 1951 and 1991, at the Women's Hockey World Cup between 1974 and 2016 and as part of Team GB at the Olympic Games from 1980 to 2016. The research will compare the development of the women's game with that of the men's, and will also include the significant male contribution to the development of women's hockey. Research will include collected oral histories of England International players from 1951 to the 2016 Olympics and, where appropriate, their family members and the administrators, medical and coaching staff who enabled the players to travel on behalf of their national teams. This is significant because women's work as national representatives of England and, at the Olympic Games as Team GB, used to be amateur but is now increasingly professional. This chronology evidences women's improved specialisation as elite players and a consequent broader public recognition, as shown by the gold medal in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This will be the first thesis of its kind on women's hockey and it is timely and topical since some of the earlier post-World War Two representative players are now elderly or deceased. Importantly, international women's hockey developed as part of the All England Women's Hockey Association since 1895; as part of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) since 1924 and as part of professional league competition beginning at about the same time. As several commentators have indicated, although ostensibly led by key female administrators, women's hockey has long been supported by significant male administrators, coaches, medical and coaching staff as well as the family and friends of representative players. This project will unlock personal and institutional sporting heritage. Together with what already exists, the acquisition of the oral histories will enable THM to have the largest collection of artefacts related to women's hockey anywhere in the world. The All England Women's Hockey Association held early international tours against Australia and New Zealand before World War One and during the inter-war period. However, after 1948, more people began to travel by land, sea and air for leisure and pleasure. Sport was part of this story and mega events began to grow like the Olympic Games and World Championships. An important part of the project will be to uncover women's experiences of touring as representatives of their country as, from the 1950s onwards. However, aside from Jean Williams' work on women's cricket, hockey and football, very few academics have captured what being 'on tour' meant to the individuals concerned; even less work has looked at women's experiences. 'Crossing the Equator' for the first time was, and remains, a pivotal moment in any traveller's life however. So, the changing status of women's hockey gives an insight into the changing nature of women's lives (work and leisure) and those of increasing numbers of girls. Oral history can help to fill voids in the extant textual collections. As well as using the text-based material at The Hockey Museum, the student will undertake interviews using Oral History Society guidelines. This will create supplementary archival sources for future researchers to remain at The Hockey Museum, thereby creating new knowledge.

This project will produce a collective biography of women who have represented England at the 41 Wembley international matches between 1951 and 1991, at the Women's Hockey World Cup between 1974 and 2014 and as part of Team GB at the Olympic Games from 1980 to 2016. Research will include collected oral histories of England International players from 1951 to the 2016 Olympics and, where appropriate, their family members and the administrators, medical and coaching staff who enabled the players to travel on behalf of their national teams. This is significant because women's work as national representatives of England and, at the Olympic Games as Team GB, used to be amateur but is now increasingly professional. This chronology evidences women's improved specialisation as elite players and a consequent broader public recognition, as shown by the gold medal in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The initiation of this research is very timely and topical with many of the earlier post-World War 2 representative players now elderly or deceased. Importantly, international women's hockey developed as part of the All England Women's Hockey Association since 1895; as part of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) since 1924 and as part of professional league competition beginning at about the same time. As several commentators have indicated, although ostensibly led by key female administrators, women's hockey has long been supported by significant male administrators, coaches, medical and coaching staff as well as the family and friends of representative players. Particular research questions include, who are the women who have appeared as international representatives since 1951? What have been their social origins, class, age, education and sexuality? How has their experience changed with the change from amateur to professional? What have been the politics of women's relationship with male coaches and administrators? How have their experiences of different tournaments and touring shaped their perception of representative competition? How important have family and friendship networks been in sustaining hockey careers?

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