The study concludes with suggestions of why intonation is, in fact, important in communication and suggests areas for improvement in pedagogical settings as well as directions for future research which would include context-based dialogues and the use of Praat in judging statements.

This report details the activities carried out in 2019 in the KB DDHT project 8 “Exploring the potential of non-destructive and non-invasive sensor technologies in food supply chains”. It compiles all four deliverables of this project as a single narrative. There are five case studies at the core of this project which address animal welfare, indoor farming, inspection of fresh food products, personalized nutrition advise and food fraud detection. Multiple activities were planned in these case studies with main focus on sensor technologies for non-destructive and non-invasive sensing. One of the key activities was to conduct a survey of sensor technologies applicable and potentially suitable for each case study. In addition, for each case study, one or more experiments were conducted which involved data acquisition using novel sensors as well as building knowledge on data analysis of data from the new sensors. Furthermore, as one of the goal of this project is to explore new sensor technologies, it is expected that this project will generate valuable data. Therefore, focus was also on FAIR data sharing and management. A workshop was organized in collaboration with WDCC on this topic. Most of the case studies also aligned with OnePlanet Research centre, and as a result multiple experiments are in planning for 2020 in cooperation with OnePlanet.

Many people are convinced that a formal, digital definition of units and quantities is required. Automated support for parameter and unit selection, dimension and unit consistency checking, conversion of units, et cetera, would benefit from such a standard and eliminate many errors and misconceptions in science and engineering. Already for many decennia, more or less formalized versions of different unit standards exist on paper. However, their translation into formal, digital representations is still inadequate. First, in our opinion, most proposals are inadequate towards the conceptual and technical aspects of units, quantities and dimensions. Second, the most serious efforts are not available in modern and widely accepted semantic languages such as RDF or OWL. Third, most approaches lack comprehensiveness. In this paper, we present a new ontological approach to the organization of units and related concepts. This new ontology, named UnitDim, is based on the existing paper standards, in particular, but not restricted to, the SI. UnitDim claims to model unit and quantity matters in an adequate way with respect to a number of practical services in supporting scientific and engineering activities. The ontology, written in OWL DL, presently contains more than 200 quantities and over 300 units. Besides describing the basic structure of the ontology, we also set out some intricate modeling issues and design decisions in this paper.