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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]

, 2019
List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Lai, Y., List, J., Starostin, G.
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Genetic polymorphisms and phylogenetic analyses of the Ü-Tsang Tibetan from Lhasa based on 30 slowly and moderately mutated Y-STR loci

Forensic Sciences Research, 2020
As a result of the expansion of old Tibet on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibetans diverged into three main branches, Ü-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham Tibetan.
Jiuyang Ding, Haoliang Fan, Yongsong Zhou, Zhuo Wang, Xiao Wang, Xuheng Song, Bofeng Zhu, Pingming Qiu   +7 more
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Emerging negative impact of warming on summer carbon uptake in northern ecosystems

Nature Communications, 2018
The impacts of climate change on summer carbon cycling in the northern hemisphere remain poorly resolved. Here the authors use atmospheric CO2 records from Point Barrow (Alaska) to show that summer CO2 drawdown is significantly negatively correlated with
Tao Wang, Dan Liu, Shilong Piao, Yilong Wang, Xiaoyi Wang, Hui Guo, Xu Lian, John F Burkhart, Philippe Ciais, Mengtian Huang, Ivan Janssens, Yue Li, Yongwen Liu, Josep Peñuelas, Shushi Peng, Hui Yang, Yitong Yao, Yi Yin, Yutong Zhao   +18 more
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell

HIMALAYA, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Duncan J. Poupard
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Strong direct and indirect influences of climate change on water yield confirmed by the Budyko framework

Geography and Sustainability, 2021
Research findings concerning the main processes influencing water resources differ substantially, and so the topic remains controversial. Recent studies indicate that the changes in water yield, expressed through the n-parameter of Budyko framework, are ...
Hui Yang, Hao Xu, Chris Huntingford, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao   +4 more
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Characteristics of Carbon and Water Fluxes over the Alpine Shrub Steppe Ecosystem during Growing Season on the Northern Slope of Qomolangma Region

Gaoyuan qixiang, 2023
Study on carbon and water fluxes of alpine shrub ecosystems on the Qinghai-Xizang （Tibetan） Plateau is crucial to elucidate the carbon balance and water cycle mechanisms of alpine grassland ecosystems in the context of climate change.Based on the ...
Zhenhua XI, Yuyang WANG, Yaoming MA, Weiqiang MA   +3 more
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Sino-Tibetan Languages [PDF]

, 2006
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. Geographically it stretches from Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh, and northern Thailand in the southeast, throughout the Tibetan plateau to the north, across most of China ...
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Biophysical impacts of northern vegetation changes on seasonal warming patterns

Nature Communications, 2022
The seasonal greening of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems due to extended growing periods and enhanced photosynthetic activity is, via experiments, shown to modify near-surface warming by perturbing land-atmosphere energy exchanges.
Xu Lian, Sujong Jeong, Chang-Eui Park, Hao Xu, Laurent Z. X. Li, Tao Wang, Pierre Gentine, Josep Peñuelas, Shilong Piao   +8 more
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ḥdug as a testimonial marker in Classical and Old Tibetan [PDF]

, 2013
DeLancey (1992) and Hongladarom (1994) suppose that ḥdug means 'sit' in Old and Classical Tibetan, and that these languages entirely lack the evidential use of this morpheme well known in 'Lhasa' Tibetan.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Lexical Comparisons between Proto-Kuki-Chin and Jinghpaw: Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans Himalayan

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
This paper presents a set of lexical correspondences between Jinghpaw and Proto-Kuki-Chin as reconstructed by ...
Scott DeLancey
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