Two Recent Major Afrikaans–English/English–Afrikaans Dictionaries

recent major advances in tunneling methods

the conventional tunneling procedures for example drilling, charging, blasting, loading and supporting, are highly developed. new tunneling machines have recently come into operation and others are under construction or development. impactors are used in large numbers in the coal mining industry. face-heading machines are successfully used in new tunneling procedures in both soft and medium-har...

Food entrainment: major and recent findings

Mammals exhibit daily anticipatory activity to cycles of food availability. Studies on such food anticipatory activity (FAA) have been conducted mainly in nocturnal rodents. They have identified FAA as the behavioral output of a food entrained oscillator (FEO), separate of the known light entrained oscillator (LEO) located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of hypothalamus. Here we briefly re...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Lossy Dictionaries

Dictionaries Revisited

Dictionaries are probably the most well studied class of data structures. A dictionary supports insertions, deletions, membership queries, and usually successor, predecessor, and extract-min. Given their centrality to both the theory and practice of data structures, surprisingly basic questions about them remain unsolved and sometimes even unposed. This talk focuses on questions that arise from...