Abstract Contact centres have been highly valued by organizations for a long time. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted their critical importance in ensuring business continuity, economic activity, and quality customer support. The led to an increase inquiries related payment extensions, cancellations, stock inquiries, each with varying degrees of urgency. To address this challenge, t...

AIMS To investigate factors associated with language delay in a cohort of 30-month-old children and determine if identification of language delay requires active contact with families. METHODS Data were collected at a pilot universal 30-month health contact. Health visitors used a simple two-item language screen. Data were obtained for 315 children; language delay was found in 33. The predict...

The article analyzes the role of presupposition in the compound-complex sentence. The authors examine the types of presuppositions and minimal compound-complex sentence as a field of presuppositions action. The analysis of these types of sentences by the material of the English language shows that several kinds of presuppositions are realized in them – contact or distant, - developing in the re...

Language change is considered as a transition of a user population among languages. Language dynamics equations represent such a transition of population. Our purpose in this paper is to develop a new formalism of language dynamics based on a realistic situation of multiple language contact. We assume a situation where memoryless learners are exposed to a number of languages. Our experiments sh...

Responding to misbehavior in ad-hoc and sensor networks is difficult. We propose new techniques for deciding when to remove nodes in a decentralized manner. Rather than blackballing nodes that misbehave, a more efficient approach turns out to be reelection – requiring nodes to secure a majority or plurality of approval from their neighbors at regular intervals. This can be implemented in a stan...

This study shows that in the present scenario, Gulgulia speakers widely show traits of code-switching, not just in the outside domain but also in the home domain. This research, a socio-linguistic analysis of contact between Gulgulia, Hindi and Khortha etc. seeks to determine the social, psychological and linguistic factors that constraint the use of Gulgulia language in the day-to-day communic...

Two seemingly unrelated problems are intimately connected. The first is the equsingularity problem in R: For an analytic family ft : (R , 0) → (R, 0), when should it be called an “equisingular deformation”? This amounts to finding a suitable trivialization condition (as strong as possible) and, of course, a criterion. The second is on the Morse stability. We define R∗, which is R “enriched” wit...