• Combined ethnographic, historic, and biomolecular approaches to Swahili cuisine. Pottery lipid residue analysis revealed mixing of C 3 plants, milk, meats. Isotope results underscore 4 plant cattle/chicken consumption. Informative contrasts among residue, stable isotopic, zooarchaeological results. Multiproxy approach provides a nuanced picture precolonial urban cuisine is known across Africa...

Television can be a powerful education tool; however, content-makers must understand the factors that engage attention and promote learning from screen media. Prior research suggests that social engagement is critical for learning and that interactivity may enhance the educational quality of children's media. The present study examined the effects of increasing the social interactivity of telev...

Research in data-driven methods for Machine Translation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of parallel corpora. Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words and phrases are translated from a source language into a target language. To investigate this, a parallel corpus is typically aligned by linking linguistic tokens in the sour...

Abstract Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence numerous complex Iron Age polities in central southern Africa. Renewed research re-dating efforts Botswana, Zimbabwe, along Swahili Coast are transforming models for how interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies present-day Zambia played an important role copper, ivor...

The paper describes problems in disambiguating the morphological analysis of Bantu languages by using Swahili as a test language. The main factors of ambiguity in this language group can be traced to the noun class structure on one hand and to the bi-directional word-formation on the other. In analyzing word-forms, the system applied utilizes SWATWOL, a morphological parsing program based on tw...