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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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, 2019 Linguistic distance over geographic distance in Japanese (blue) and Ryukyuan (orange) with Loess smoothing.
Asifa Majid (2847878) +2 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman +4 more
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Dialectometry of Linguistic Varieties Common in the Distance between the South of Hamadan Province to the North of Khuzestan Province: Using Levenshtein Distance Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانDialectometry is a computational, quantitative and statistical approach, in which linguistic differences, in a selected geographical area, are examined by using specific methods and techniques.
Shiva Piryaee +3 more
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Running head: PHONOLOGICAL DISTANCE MEASURES Phonological Distance Measures
, 2008 Phonological distance measures 2 Phonological distance can be measured computationally using formally specified algorithms. This work investigates two such measures, one developed by Nerbonne and Heeringa (1997) based on Levenshtein distance (Levenshtein,
Nathan C Sanders +2 more
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ETHNOPOLITICAL DEMOGRAPHICS, IDENTITIES AND THE UTILITY OF LINGUSTIC DISTANCE IN MEASURING DIMENSIONS OF COLLECTIVE GROUP CHANGE [PDF]
, 2007 Ethnic distance is a theoretical concept that is prevalent within political science and political economy as a metric in calculating group heterogeneity but has been difficult to apply in terms of making actual empirical measurements. Ethnic distance can
Foley, Eric
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Pterosaur dental biology remains poorly understood despite its importance for comprehending feeding strategies and flight adaptations. Here, we present the first comprehensive histological analysis of an ornithocheiriform pterosaur tooth from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation (Santana Group, Northeast Brazil).
Tito Aureliano +3 more
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Linguistic Distancing in Gravity's Rainbow
Pynchon Notes, 1982 When we read Malamud's The Fixer or Updike's Rabbit, Run, Percy's The Moviegoer or even Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor, something happens that would be curious were it not so common: although we know Yakov and Harry, Binx and Ebenezer to be fictive creatures existing only in a world of words spun by their authors, we nevertheless become involved in their ...
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
, 2012 Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing ...
Otten, Sebastian, Isphording, Ingo E.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Softshell turtles (Pan‐Trionychidae) are an early branching clade of hidden‐necked turtles (Cryptodira) with a rich fossil record extending back to the Early Cretaceous. The evolutionary history of softshell turtles is still unresolved because of their conservative morphology combined with high levels of polymorphism related to morphological ...
Léa C. Girard, Walter G. Joyce
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