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What Happens to Class When a Language Dies? Language Change vs. Language Death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents the first documentation of the noun class system of the dying language Mani (buy), Bullom So in Ethnologue, a.k.a. Mmani, Mandenyi, etc. spoken in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Childs, George Tucker
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The Role of Intracellular Interactions in the Collective Polarization of Tissues and its Interplay with Cellular Geometry

open access: yes, 2019
Planar cell polarity (PCP), the coherent in-plane polarization of a tissue on multicellular length scales, provides directional information that guides a multitude of developmental processes at cellular and tissue levels.
Mani, Madhav, Shadkhoo, Shahriar
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Financial Inclusion Access and Female Labour Participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Moderating Role of Institutional Quality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Travelling agents : political change and bureaucratic turnover in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats’ career investments.
Lakshmi, Iyer, Mani, Anandi
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On Channel Resolvability in Presence of Feedback

open access: yes, 2016
We study the problem of generating an approximately i.i.d. string at the output of a discrete memoryless channel using a limited amount of randomness at its input in presence of causal noiseless feedback. Feedback does not decrease the channel resolution,
Parizi, Mani Bastani, Telatar, Emre
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Untreated Hair Dye Effluents Enter the Environment: Are They a Threat to Human Health?

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The effluents generated during the process of hair dyeing exhibit a complex composition, comprising chemical compounds with varying toxicity levels. While the adverse impact of hair dyes on human health is acknowledged, there is a notable absence of studies addressing the toxicity associated with effluents produced during these activities. The
Letícia Cristina Gonçalves   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the determination of the earthquake slip distribution via linear programming techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The description that one can have of the seismic source is the mani- festation of an imagined model, obviously outlined from Physic Theories and supported by mathematical methods.
Bushenkov, V., Caldeira, B., Smirnov, G.
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Dynamics and symmetries of flow reversals in turbulent convection

open access: yes, 2011
Based on direct numerical simulations and symmetry arguments, we show that the large-scale Fourier modes are useful tools to describe the flow structures and dynamics of flow reversals in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC).
Chandra, Mani, Verma, Mahendra K.
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Conceptualizing and measuring consumers’ negative attitudes towards online shopping

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the advantages of online shopping, increasing evidence indicates the prevalence of negative consumer attitudes towards online shopping (NATOS). Yet existing research exhibits a nearly exclusive focus on measuring positive attitudes, creating limited conceptual breadth. Moreover, despite the existence of conceptually related constructs (
Kaj‐Johanna Stichnoth   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

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