Phonological markedness and allomorph selection in Zahao Moira Yip University College London This paper deals with verb stem alternations involving tone, glottalization, and length in the Chin language Zahao (Osburne 1975), spoken in Burma. The emphasis is on tone, but the length facts are extremely interesting, and are given a preliminary treatment in the final section. It is argued that verbs...

The accidental release of radioactive substances into the environment leads to the necessity of applying suitable countermeasures for the restoration of the polluted environment. However, despite their obvious benefits, such interventions may result in detrimental effects of economic, ecological and social nature that must be carefully evaluated. MOIRA–PLUS is a PC-based user-friendly, Computer...

As the use of Instant message service increased, emoticons also have been changed and developed in various forms. Especially, 3rd-generation (3G) emoticons are being spotlighted as new communicative tools because they provide wide selection of choice through vividly personified characters. To reflect this trend, this study formulated and confirmed a hypothesis that the more emoticons are person...

Caroline Willis*, Jim McLauchlin, Corinne Amar, Lorraine Sadler-Reeves, Nicola Elviss, Heather Aird, Andrew Fox and Moira Kaye 1 Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Porton, Porton Down, Salisbury. Public Health England Food Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory London, Colindale, London. Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit, Public Health Eng...

Circles packing problem is an NP-hard problem and is difficult to solve. In this paper, a hybrid search strategy for circles packing problem is discussed. A way of generating new configuration is presented by simulating the moving of elastic objects, which can avoid the blindness of simulated annealing search and make iteration process converge fast. Inspired by the life experiences of people, ...

By Geouge S. A. Racking A.B., M.B. (Cantab). Havingbeen told by my chowkedar that he knew of a woman who had twin children "joined," as he said, " by the belly," I told him to have thein brought for me to see; accordingly this morning the father and mother came bringing the twins. The father is about 45, a fairly representative Hindoo of the Moira caste. The mother is a fine healthy looking wom...

Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found many laboratory-based experiments, and it has suggested that these may arise because men women respond differently to psychological pressure competitive environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, measured gender four distinct situations. These were as follows: (i) t...