Like the biological clock in the body, replication of each cell type (even different cells of the same organism) follows a timing program. Abnormal function of this timer could be an alarm for a disease like cancer. DNA replication starts from a specific point on the chromosome that is called the origin of replication. In contrast to prokaryotes in which DNA replication starts from a single ...

When we want to adapt an existing automatic speech recognition system to a new language, we need a large corpus of texts to create a lexicon, a language model and a database of annotated recordings to train an acoustic model. Usually the texts in the corpus (or in annotations) contain not only words but also some other symbols, mainly strings of digits, special characters and some frequent abbr...

This article addresses the linguistic situation in late medieval Venetian Dalmatia, where a predominantly Slavic-speaking population met an administration working Latin and variant of Italian. On basis archival records, mostly notarial acts case files, by examining city Split from micro-historical perspective, two questions are addressed: first concerns methodological challenge studying spoken ...

Based on specific linguistic landmarks in the speech signal, this study investigates pitch level and pitch span differences in English, German, Bulgarian and Polish. The analysis is based on 22 speakers per language (11 males and 11 females). Linear mixed models were computed that include various linguistic measures of pitch level and span, revealing characteristic differences across languages ...

Ancient Greek (Gk) middle verbs of fear (e.g. fobeisthai ‘to be afraid’), as Indo-European (IE) deponents in general, seem not to undergo Burzio’s Generalization [3] in its strong version, according to which verbs that lack an agentive external argument should block accusative assigning on their complement. On the contrary, Gk middle verbs of fear take accusative objects (ex. 1, structure A). I...