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Deep reefs (25–30 m) were expected to be climate havens for fish fleeing warming shallow waters near Egypt's Nile Delta—but the opposite was observed. As you head south, the reef habitat shifts from primary producers (algae) to filter‐feeding bryozoans, and fish abundance and diversity drop sharply.
Anat Tsemel +7 more
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The Role of Bilingualism in Nilotic Sound Change
. The Nilotic family, a group of languages spoken in East Africa allows a uniform subgrouping on the basis of Neogrammarian principles of shared innovations.
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
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ABSTRACT Understanding the processes that drive soil formation is crucial for developing sustainable land‐use strategies, as changing land‐use practices and climate change exacerbate soil erosion. The formation of substantial arable soils on carbonate bedrock requires substantial dust accretion as the underlying bedrock lacks siliciclastic material. In
Daniel Palchan +3 more
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Morpological stratification in Dinka
Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology.
Torben Andersen
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EFFECT OF BREED AND SEX ON SOME MACRO-MINERAL VALUES IN HEALTHY SUDANESE SHEEP [PDF]
This work was undertaken to determine the effect of breed and sex on some blood serum electrolytes and macro-mineral values in Sudanese sheep, and to add to the present reference values for these parameters. The blood samples were taken from two Sudanese
SHADIA A. OMER, S.H. AHMED
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ABSTRACT Lactose tolerance (lactase persistence) represents a very progressive human adaptation, the origins of which remain incompletely understood. This study aims to examine the geographical distribution of the two alleles associated with lactose tolerance in Eurasia (13910*T and 13915*G) in relation to the main Y haplogroups and autosomal ancestry ...
Pavel Grasgruber
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Expressions of Cardinal Directions in Nilotic and in Ubangian Languages [PDF]
In the Nilotic and Ubangian languages expressions for cardinal directions have been created on the basis of a wide range of conceptual sources: primarily cosmological, geographical and atmospheric concepts.
Mietzner, Angelika, Pasch, Helma
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Southern Nilotic Impersonal Constructions from a Typological Perspective
<p>This presentation will explore a set of cognate constructions in the Southern Nilotic family that have variably been described as passive, impersonal, and third person plural subject constructions.
Griscom, Richard +1 more
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Many conventional features of world tree motifs in the ancient Near East—including stalked palmettes, aureoles of water lily palmettes connected by pliant stems, floral rosettes, winged disks and bud-and-blossom motifs—trace largely from ...
J. Andrew McDonald
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A Motif of Parrots in Dionysian Contexts on Selected Examples of Hellenistic and Roman Mosaics
This paper provides an overview of the mosaics in which parrots are represented as a motive accompanying Dionysian themes. Based on the written and iconographic sources, the author argues that a parrot was an intrinsic element of the visual language ...
Anna Głowa
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