Governing complex linguistic diversity in Barcelona, Luxembourg and Riga

Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution

This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad crosssection of countries. We use the notion of “linguistic distances” and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances, yields insignificant results. However, once distances between languages are accounted for, linguistic diversity has both a statistically and econ...

Linguistic diversity and universals

The Role of Non-Linguistic Variables in Production of Complex Linguistic Structures by Hearing-Impaired Children

Objectives: Language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. Hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. It seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. The purpose of this study is to determine ...

Governing Complex Education Systems

Co-hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Education, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), this one-day seminar brought together state of the art research with country experiences and examples of building, maintaining, and restoring trust in education. The main themes included the challenges for today’s education systems arising ...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...