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Heat Tolerance Limits in Indoor Environments: Prolonged Fixed‐Condition Exposure Versus Humidity‐Ramp Protocols

open access: yesSafety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Fast ramp humidity protocols systematically underestimate human heat tolerance by failing to match physiological equilibration timescales. Prolonged fixed‐condition exposures reveal substantially higher sustainable wet‐bulb limits, supporting their use as the gold standard and motivating slower, equilibration‐based ramp designs for accurate heat risk ...
Fèlix Faming Wang, Yi Xu, Wentao Wu
wiley   +1 more source

A Method for Resourcing Sustainable Cities in Rwanda Through Informal Settlement Upgrading

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
Meeting targets under SDG 11 depends on qualitative improvements implemented through planning and design processes. In many less developed countries (LDCs), the upgrading of informal settlements has potential to make significant gains towards SDG 11, but
Garret Gantner, Costanza La Mantia
doaj   +1 more source

The Bantu expansion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon.
Bostoen, Koen
core   +2 more sources

The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Verbal Marker tsa in Luguru

open access: yesStudia Orientalia Electronica, 2020
This paper deals with a morphosyntactic phenomenon found in the under-described Bantu language Luguru, spoken in central Tanzania: the verbal marker tsa. This marker encodes shared knowledge or shared reference.
Malin Petzell
doaj   +1 more source

Karakteristik Bayi Baru Lahir dengan Resusitasi Berkaitan dengan Kebutuhan Jenis Alat Bantu Napas Saat Lahir

open access: yesSari Pediatri, 2022
Latar belakang. Bayi lahir tidak bugar sering mengalami kegagalan adaptasi pernapasan. Kondisi tersebut membutuhkan resusitasi, stabilisasi, yang selanjutnya membutuhkan alat bantu napas bertekanan positif berkelanjutan.
Fiolita Indranita Sutjipto   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
wiley   +1 more source

Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Based on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
doaj   +1 more source

Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 2: Lemmatisation and Rulers for Lusoga

open access: yesLexikos, 2018
This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency list directly within a ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax

open access: yesLinguistics, 2022
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
doaj   +1 more source

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