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This article is a non-chronological account of the documentation and mapping of walks over an eighteen-month period around Elephant and Castle, a part of South East London that, via its designation as a prime 'regeneration opportunity area', is experiencing a rapid but problematic transformation. The original group walk is constructed performatively in the shape of a spatial and temporal narrative, i.e. the solving of a mystery prompted by an American magazine's 1941 photograph of bomb-damaged Sayer Street SE17, held in the Imperial War Museum archive. Via this and other textual fragments, walkers seek to reconstruct a history and determine the original coordinates of a once lost but now recuperated street. Subsequent walks, taking place either side of the recent conflagration of Grenfell Tower, become more dialogic as discussion turns to the social and political consequences of London's land grab. Key motifs emerge also: parallel lines of thinking, e.g. Lend Lease 1941, Lend Lease Ltd 2017, mapping – personal and archival, quotation, ruins, the punctum in the image and the metaphor of place holding.

Proceedings of: 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Singapore, September 14-18, 2014. ; Traditional Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems have been developed using especially-designed non-expressive scripted recordings. In order to develop a new generation of expressive TTS systems in the Simple4All project, real recordings from the media should be used for training new voices with a whole new range of speaking styles. However, for processing this more spontaneous material, the new systems must be able to deal with imperfect data (multi-speaker recordings, background and fore-ground music and noise), filtering out low-quality audio segments and creating mono-speaker clusters. In this paper we compare several architectures for combining speaker diarization and music and noise detection which improve the precision and overall quality of the segmentation. ; This work has been carried out during the research stay of A. Gallardo-Antolín and J. M. Montero at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under the National Program of Human Resources Mobility from the I+D+i 2008-2011 National Program, extended by agreement of the Council of Ministers in October 7th, 2011. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement No 287678. It has also been supported by EPSRC Programme Grant grant, no. EP/I031022/1 (Natural Speech Technology, NST) and Spanish Government grants TEC2011-26807 and DPI2010-21247-C02-02. ; Publicado

We explore alternative descriptions of the charged lepton sector in modular invariant models of lepton masses and mixing angles. In addition to the modulus, the symmetry breaking sector of our models includes ordinary flavons. Neutrino mass terms depend only on the modulus and are tailored to minimize the number of free parameters. The charged lepton Yukawa couplings rely upon the flavons alone. We build modular invariant models at levels 4 and 5, where neutrino masses are described both in terms of the Weinberg operator or through a type I seesaw mechanism. At level 4, our models reproduce the hierarchy among electron, muon and tau masses by letting the weights play the role of Froggatt-Nielsen charges. At level 5, our setup allows the treatment of left and right handed charged leptons on the same footing. We have optimized the free parameters of our models in order to match the experimental data, obtaining a good degree of compatibility and predictions for the absolute neutrino masses and the CP violating phases. At a more fundamental level, the whole lepton sector could be correctly described by the simultaneous presence of several moduli. Our examples are meant to make a first step in this direction. ; This project has received support in part by the MIUR-PRIN project 2015P5SBHT 003 \Search for the Fundamental Laws and Constituents" and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 674896 and 690575. The research of F. F. was supported in part by the INFN. The research of J. C. C. was supported by the Spanish MINECO project FPA2016-78220-C3- 1-P, the Junta de Andalucía grant FQM101 and the Spanish MECD grant FPU14.