avesta is the oldest written text remained and extant from iranian old languages. it comprises of a collection of thousands of words and expressions covering almost all fields of religion and the culture of ancient human beings. with regard to what is left of avesta, the contents of the twenty-one nasks (“books”) remained from the sasanian period, and the documents existing in other books perti...

the japanese threadfin bream, nemipterus japonicus, the most abundant and crucially economic nemipterus species is widespread throughout the indo-west pacific. the species has been studied widely for various aspects but genetic studies are scanty. this preliminary study contributes to the species phylogeography through the study of the genetic diversity and historical demography of n. japonicus...

There is evidence that coronal contrasts involving retroflexes are less clearly distinguished after a high front vowel /i/ [2, 9]. However, no detailed acoustic studies have been conducted to investigate whether following front vowels affect the contrastiveness of dentals, retroflexes and palatals. We examined the acoustic characteristics of three Punjabi coronal onsets /t̪ ʈ tʃ/ produced before...

In April 2007, the Spanish optical company indo Internacional was facing a renewal decision of the mobility solution for its eyeglasses division’s sales force. Initially, the company was seeking to implement a solution that would allow to look up inventories in real time. One of the potential providers offers to extend the functionality with a virtual catalog, which would allow the company to e...

Although from the beginning of Indo-European studies the Vedic accentual system has been thoroughly investigated and its importance for the reconstruction of Proto Indo-European accent long recognized, the phonetics of Vedic accent have received much less attention. The aim of this paper is to help fill this gap, building on previous work from various grammatical sources, from antiquity to mode...

The slender ponyfish Equulites elongatus was recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean near Tel-Aviv, Israel on 27 May 2011. This Indo-Pacific species evidently reached the Mediterranean by crossing the Suez Canal.

We are developing novel statistical and signal processing methods to work backwards from contemporary audio recordings of simple words in modern Indo-European languages to regenerate audible spoken forms from earlier points in the language family tree. In this paper we present our first tentative steps in developing some of the necessary technical methods for realising this ambition, especially...

In the biomedical field, the key to access information is the use of specialized terms. However, in most of Indo-European languages, these terms are complex morphological structures. The aim of the presented work is to identify the various meaningful components of these terms and use this analysis to improve biomedical information retrieval. We present an approach combining an automatic alignme...

Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the Indo-Bangladesh context is generating a range of destabilising socio-political, economic, ethnic and communal tensions in India. It has embittered Indo-Bangladesh ...