AIM To find an association between Y chromosome polymorphisms and some ethnic groups. METHODS Short tandem repeats (STR) and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) on the Y chromosome were typed in 311 unrelated men from four different ethnic groups - Italians from northern Italy, Albanians, Africans from the Maghreb region, and Indo-Pakistanis, using the AmpFlSTR® Yfiler PCR Amplification Kit...

In the biomedical field, using of specialized terms is key to access information. However, in most Indo-European languages, these terms are complex morphological structures. The presented work aims at identifying the various meaningful components of these terms and use them to improve biomedical Information Retrieval (IR). We present different approaches combining automatic alignments with a pi...

A CRITICAL CHECKLIST of the 54 species of ahermatypic Scleractinia known from the Hawaiian Islands is given. Based on a collection of approximately 1,150 specimens from 186 stations, new records are documented for 42 of these species, including 19 new records for the Hawaiian Islands, 8 of these being new species. A synonymy, discussion, and distribution are given for each of the 42 species col...

Phonetic evidence is presented to contribute to a possible explanation of how historical coronalization of labialized velars in front vowel environments may take place. Sound changes of labialized velar /kw/ to coronal /t/ before front vowels /i, e/ are reconstructed for the development of Greek from Indo-European. Philological accounts tend to propose progressive fronting/palatalization preced...

Since ancient linguistics, the studies of Indo-European word order work with the conception of universal natural word order (ordo naturalis) – an order of the verb-dependent constituents in the linear organization of a clause. The description of the natural word order is usually based on occasional (and in some degree random) observations of clauses in a certain language. In Czech linguistics, ...

INTRODUCTION Tocharian is an extinct Indo-European language which stands by itself as one of the eleven major groups in the IE language family. It was not discovered until the turn of this century, as a result of archaeological expeditions to Chinese Turkestan. What are some of the characteristics of Tocharian and what impact has it made on our knowledge of IE languages in general? This paper s...