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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2020
An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework ...
Álvaro Corral, Isabel Serra
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The “Law of Brevity” in animal communication: Sex‐specific signaling optimization is determined by call amplitude rather than duration

open access: yesEvolution Letters, 2019
The efficiency of informational transfer is one of the key aspects of any communication system. The informational coding economy of human languages is often demonstrated by their almost universal fit to Zipf's “Law of Brevity,” expressing negative ...
Vlad Demartsev   +7 more
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Variable expression of linguistic laws in ape gesture: a case study from chimpanzee sexual solicitation

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2022
Two language laws have been identified as consistent patterns shaping animal behaviour, both acting on the organizational level of communicative systems.
Alexandra Safryghin   +5 more
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Catechetical enlightenment in the tradition of the Russian Church in the 18th and 19th centuries: based on catechetical literature [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2023
This article examines the situation of catechetical teaching of the faith in Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Russian Church could not fully adopt the catechetical tradition of Byzantium, which had already died out by the 10th century.
Mozgov К. A.
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On the physical origin of linguistic laws and lognormality in speech [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
Physical manifestations of linguistic units include sources of variability due to factors of speech production which are by definition excluded from counts of linguistic symbols.
Iván G. Torre   +4 more
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Prohibition of Transaction in Corruption and its Application to Interpretion of laws [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2015
Principles of Islamic jurisprudence as a significant and practical means aims to discover the will of law-maker and interpret it in conditions of silence, brevity, vaguenes and even in cases of contradictions, help the jurisprudent understand the spirit
زهرا فیض   +1 more
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القبور وفقه الأولويات دراسة فقهية تطبيقية مقارنة Graves and the jurisprudence of priorities: an applied comparative jurisprudential study [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة كلية الدراسات الإسلامية والعربية للبنات بدمنهور, 2023
إن المتأمل في كتاب الجنائز وما يتعلق به من أحكام شرعية ,فإنه في نظر الباحث يحكمه أصلان : الأول: أن كل ما أدى إلى تسلية أهل المصاب فإنه مطلوب شرعا ، وقد دل على ذلك عمومات الشرع ومقاصده ، ومنها ما جاء في بعض الأحاديث كحديث: "المؤمن للمؤمن كالبنيان "، وحديث:
عبدالله البراك
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The Role and Status of Analogy in the History of Legal Systems; With an emphasis on the Practice of International Arbitration Tribunals

open access: yesمطالعات تطبیقی فقه و اصول مذاهب, 2023
Argument is the life of law. In order to prove a legal issue, the science of law goes through the tortuous path of judicial reasoning to prove the legal fact of a civil or criminal case.
Heidar Piri
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Comparative Approach of Monetary Resources and Financing of Elections (Study on Election System of Iran, France, Russia and USA) [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2016
Appropriate financing of candidate campaigns has important influence on the security of the electoral system, and prevent financial and political corruptions after obtaining relevant occupations. Although, the important part of electoral law is allocated
Shoja Ahmadvand, Ferdos Saber Mahani
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A Study of Assessment of Casinos’ Risk of Ruin in Casino Games with Poisson Distribution

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
Gambling, as an uncertain business involving risks confronting casinos, is commonly analysed using the risk of ruin (ROR) formula. However, due to its brevity, the ROR does not provide any implication of nuances in terms of the distribution of wins ...
Ka-Meng Siu, Ka-Hou Chan, Sio-Kei Im
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