Farklı medeniyetlere ev sahipliği yapmış olan Malta’da kullanılan konuşma ve yazı dilleri aynı doğrultuda çeşitlilik göstermiştir. Sami dil ailesinden Maltaca; Arapça İtalyanca kelimelerden oluşur Latin harfleriyle yazılır. İki farklı unsurların bir araya geldiği bu dilin doğal olarak kendisine uygun alfabeyi edinmesi zor olmuştur. Dolayısıyla Maltacanın standart ortografiye sahip olması ancak ...

The genus Phyllosticta occurs worldwide, and contains numerous plant pathogenic, endophytic and saprobic species. Phyllosticta citricarpa is the causal agent of Citrus Black Spot disease (CBS), affecting fruits and leaves of several citrus hosts (Rutaceae), and can also be isolated from asymptomatic citrus tissues. Citrus Black Spot occurs in citrus-growing regions with warm summer rainfall cli...

AIMS The study aimed to obtain information about communication in the migrant community in Malta. The objectives were to identify the communication skills of the migrants in terms of language use and exposure; to verify whether members of the migrant community have access to participation, education, socialization and opportunities for gainful employment, and to identify if the migrant communit...

OBJECTIVE To investigate self-reported health complaints and the use of medicines among adolescents in Malta. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey self-reported health complaints, the use and the sources of medicines that had been accessed, during the preceding 3 months among adolescents attending secondary schools in Malta. A stratified random sample design generated ...

Although contract reparations have been extensively studied in the context of deontic logics, there is not much literature using reparations in automata-based deontic approaches. Contract automata are a recent approach to modelling the notion of contractbased interaction between different parties using synchronous composition. However, it lacks the notion of reparations for contract violations....

The creation of Language Resources is a labour intensive process whose difficulty is further compounded when minority languages are concerned (Cunningham, 1999). This paper discusses the creation of an extensible set of Language Resources for Maltese developed by the Maltilex Project at the University of Malta (Rosner et. al., 1999), together with quality evaluation mechanisms for minority