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Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description
The process of documenting and describing the world's languages is undergoing radical transformation with the rapid uptake of new digital technologies for capture, storage, annotation and dissemination.
Bird, Steven, Simons, Gary
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Pleiades in ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
In this paper I will analyse the different features of the Pleiades in the astronomical, astrological, and calendrical interpretation as well as their mythical and cultural background in ancient Mesopotamia.
VERDERAME, Lorenzo
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Development of a lip colour chart across four ethnicities
The present study revealed a large lip colour diversity across four ethnic groups. The inter‐group overlaps demonstrate that lip colour is not solely defined by individual ethnic belonging. The 53 lip tones described here could be used as target shades to create more inclusive nude lipsticks in the near future. Abstract In the human face, the lips play
Zoé Charton +8 more
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“Lahesõjad” 3. eelkristlikul aastatuhandel. Sumeri ja Akkadi kuningate sõjaretked Pärsia lahe kanti 2700–2150 eKr [PDF]
War has always constituted an important part of politics in the Middle East. Evidences of wars in southern Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad) and in the region of the Persian Gulf can be found in written sources that date back to the Early Dynastic Period (in
Vladimir Sazonov
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Book-keeping in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennium BC
The recent, twentieth-century research on the history of the development of book-keeping indicates that it originated with the development of the Sumerian civilization in the third millennium BC. The necessity to control the property of the temple and of
Sławomir Sojak
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Three notes on Osip Mandelstam’s biography [PDF]
The first note discusses biographies of the Sinani (1851–1941) and Monvizh-Montvid (1890s — 1941) family members. The second note discusses the “Social Revolutionary context” of the trip to a secret meeting in Rayvola described by Mandelstam.
Alexander Mets
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The purpose of this article is, on the one hand, to investigate how the vegetal imaginary is used, by the scribes, to define the "other", in order to bring its inner meaning back to understandable forms.
Ludovica Bertolini
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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Abstract Most recent writing about the directions for AI has focused on the potential risks of widespread use of AI and what we DO NOT want from AI. This has led to many, largely ignored, calls for a pause in research and deployment. This essay takes the view that there are too many factors in play to slow the deployment much and for long.
Robert B. Fisher
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Sumerologist, writer M.İ. Çığ’s work called Ludingirra the Sumerian: Science Fiction for the Past” has been adapted from the information in the tablets which belongs to thousands of years ago. The main character of the book Ludingirra, a writer, teacher,
Demet Işık
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