Ornamentation of Lithuanian Ethnographic Home Textiles

Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus

The goal of the paper is to present different problems related to the building of Parallel Corpus for two small languages, namely, Latvian and Lithuanian. The Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuania Parallel Corpus (LILA) will contain 8 million running words; will be bidirectional, aligned on the sentence level. The problems include identifying, acquiring, preparing, and aligning parallel texts.

PIM in the Professional Home Office: An Ethnographic Study

Information Science (IS) scholars have long articulated the importance of physical and social factors—environments— when examining how individuals acquire, store, organize, maintain, and retrieve information in one of their home or work lives. Yet, few have raised the question of how these same information practices are altered and affected in home offices, fused living and working spaces that ...

The Home of the Future: An Ethnographic Study of New Information Technologies in the Home Project NOAH

This paper explores the "Home of the Future" from the ethnographic perspective. It conceptualizes the home as a constellation of physical, technical, and social and cultural spaces, and asks the question of how these new information technologies fit into the household. Findings from the present research suggests that there is incomplete domestication of information technologies into the househo...

Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture

MHC Genotype and Ornamentation

Differences among males in immunocompetence can affect resistance to parasites and diseases, and sexual ornaments have been suggested to function as indicators of additive genetic variation in disease resistance, health and condition in the good gene models of sexual selection. In this paper the role of genetic variation in the immune system is discussed as an alternative route to explore wheth...