The aim of this study is to investigate whether the occurrence of lexical tones in a language imposes restrictions on its pitch range. Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos comprises dialects with and without lexical tones and with no other major phonological differences. We use Kammu spontaneous speech to investigate differences in pitch range in the two dialects. The main finding i

Abstract in Italian Questo progetto di tesi prevede un lavoro di osservazione analisi e costruzione di una struttura comunicativa su Second Life al fine di stimolare, attraverso una serie di contenuti di natura archeologica, l’incontro e la collaborazione di ricercatori studenti e appassionati provenienti da tutte le parti del mondo. Per poter organizzare una struttura comunicativa utile a questo

The effects of cereal phenolic acids on cell cycle and proliferation in colon cancer cells using flow cytometry and the cDNA microarray technique

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Approaches to determining the factuality of diagnoses and findings in clinical text tend to rely on dictionaries of marker words for uncertainty and negation. Here, a method for semi-automatically expanding a dictionary of marker words using distributional semantics is presented and evaluated. It is shown that ranking candidates for inclusion according to their proximity to cluster centroids of se

Popular Abstract in Swedish Fyllotaxi är läran om blad, löv, och andra växtorgans placering. Ordet fyllotaxi har sitt ursprung i de grekiska orden för 'blad' och 'organisation', och mönsterbildning i växter har studerats sedan antiken. Mönster i naturen har alltid intresserat människan och fantasieggande kopplingar till matematiken gör sig ständigt till känna. I många växter bildar växtorgan mönstThe study of phyllotactic patterns have a long history, but the bulk of our detailed understanding of developmental processes in plants comes from research conducted in the last thirty or forty years. New modern techniques have made it possible to study plants in ways that previously was not possible. Using confocal microscopy it is possible to generate three-dimensional stacks of images of a plan

This article focuses on processes of social change in Sweden, an advanced welfare state. it starts by pointing out the failure of contemporary welfare state theory to deal with the imbalance between the goal of equlality and the goal of efficiency in the production and distribution of both capital and social values. Three processes of social change are examined: the marginalization of women in the