The recent publication of the upper levels at Mezmaiskaya has made it possible to better understand the Early Upper Paleolithic in this cave and, more generally, for area in the Caucasus region (Golovanova eta!. , 2006, specifically Eur-asian Prehistory Vol. 4: 2: 2006: 43-78). In particular , the early dates (36,100 ± 2,300 BP) demonstrate the importance of this site in the study of exchanges ...

After 10 minutes of exposure to a spoken sample, listeners rated the similarity of Korean to rhythmically similar languages (Experiment 1) or to languages from the same geographical area (Experiment 2). Listener ratings were submitted to MDS analysis receiving two-dimensional solutions. When listeners were comparing Korean to rhythmically similar languages, the dimensions of the derived stimulu...

The world is undergoing a huge transformation from industrial economies into an informa‐ tion economy, in which the indices of value are shifting from material to non-material re‐ sources. This transformation has been rightly described as a revolution that is accompanied by considerable dangers for the future and the survival of many languages and their associ‐ ated cultures. The last years hav...

This paper, submitted as an entry for the NERSSEAL-2008 shared task, describes a system build for Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages. Our paper combines machine learning techniques with language specific heuristics to model the problem of NER for Indian languages. The system has been tested on five languages: Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Oriya. It uses CRF (Co...

Supra-glacial material, including light-absorbing impurities (LAI) such as mineral dust of crustal and soil origin, black carbon, algae cryoconite, reduce the reflectance snow glacier ice. The reduction depends on amount LAI their physical chemical properties, which vary spatially temporally. Spectral data ice samples, containing LAI, were collected in ablation zone Djankuat Glacier, Central Ca...

iran is situated at the center of a regional subsystem including the middle east, central asia, the caucasus, southwest asia and the persian gulf basin. iran's relations with each of these subsystems refer to a special ground that is rooted in the foundation of iranian civilization. if relations with each of these regions are designed according to cultural, economic and political realities...

security of energy is the major concern of the world, especially the large industrial countries. countries of central asia and the caucasus are the most important countries in the field of energy resources and energy transfer. of the eight countries of central asia and the caucasus, azerbaijan, kazakhstan, turkmenistan and uzbekistan has in total 3.2 percent crude oil reserves and about 14 perc...