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Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers (2024)
Journal Article
Coppock, H., Nicholson, G., Kiskin, I., Koutra, V., Baker, K., Budd, J., …Holmes, C. (2024). Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers. Nature Machine Intelligence, 6, 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00773-8

Recent work has reported that respiratory audio-trained AI classifiers can accurately predict SARS-CoV-2 infection status. However, it has not yet been determined whether such model performance is driven by latent audio biomarkers with true causal li... Read More about Audio-based AI classifiers show no evidence of improved COVID-19 screening over simple symptoms checkers.

Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro (2020)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., & Mora, J. L. (2020). Úna ínsula para isleños, tierra adentro. Insula, 886, 3-7

This article looks at the intellectual relationship between British Hispanists and Spanish intellectuals at the start of the 1970s.

Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Rice, P., Williams, R., Newsome, P., Aithal, G., Morling, J., Alexander, G. J., …Yeoman, A. (2020). Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK. Lancet, 395(10219), 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2932908-3

This final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK stresses the continuing increase in burden of liver disease from excess alcohol consumption and obesity, with high levels of hospital admissions which are worsening in deprived a... Read More about Unacceptable failures: the final report of the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK.

Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2016). Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer. Romance Quarterly, 63(2), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2016.1146014

The present study considers the role and function that humour has in Unamuno’s intellectual and literary universe. It traces Unamuno’s attitude to humour to his reading of the Spanish character in En torno al casticismo (1895) and to his dialogue wit... Read More about Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer.

Federico García Lorca y el cine (2015)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2015). Federico García Lorca y el cine. Europe -Paris- Revue Litteraire Mensuelle-, 93(1032), 170-185

This article analyses Federico García Lorca's relationship with cinema, taking into account not only his screenplays but also his incorporation into his drama and poetic works of techniques borrowed from cinema.

El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre (2012)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2012). El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 17(2/3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2011.637404

This article considers the profound influence that puppet theatre had on Federico García Lorca’s poetic vision and practice at the time that he was writing the poems that would eventually make up the Romancero gitano (1928). Taking the ‘Romance sonám... Read More about El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre.