Lak is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by over 150,000 people in the central highlands of the Republic of Dagestan in the Russian Federation. It utilizes reduplication in certain durative verb forms, notably imperatives, the present participle (both short and full forms), the present gerund, and the assertive present and conditional forms (Murkelinskij 1971:187; Khajdakov 1962:410-416). T...

Introduction and Background: Radial grabens at Tharsis record crustal extension due to the load [1−3]. However their development and significance beyond 2-D strain estimates are largely unknown. For example, early Viking-based strain models required two separate phases of Tharsis loading to produce the “inner” and “outer” radial grabens [4,5]. In contrast, recent MGS-based stress models for Tha...

A new mealybug species, Chorizococcus zoysiaesp. n., feeding on Zoysia tenuifolia (Poaceae), is described from Taiwan. Adult female, third-instar female, second-instar female and first-instar nymph were described and illustrated in this article. Keys are provides to (a) separate this new species from similar species of Chorizococcus and those of same genus on zoysia grasses and (b) to identify ...

Reduced and modified tillage (RT) systems (e.g. no-, zone-, strip) represent strategies to reduce soil degradation and erosion and protect water quality. We have shown that zone and deep zone tillage systems can provide the environmental and economic benefits of an RT system for many vegetable crops without the harvest delays or losses observed in straight no-till. Each season, more vegetable g...

SQL:2007, die sich momentan noch in Entwicklung befindende nächste Version der SQLNorm, erweitert den aus SQL:2003 bekannten SQL-Datentyp ” XML“. Als Instanzen dieses Datentyps sind nun auch komplette XQuery-Sequenzen erlaubt. Infolgedessen können SQL:2007-Anfrageergebnisse vollständige XQuery-Sequenzen als Attributwerte besitzen. Damit stellt sich die Frage, wie XQuery-Sequenzen, die im Anfrag...

Using transaction data from the Jakarta Stock Exchange, I nd three pieces of evidence which indicate that domestic investors have an information advantage over foreign investors. First, foreign investors systematically buy at higher and sell at lower intra-day prices than domestic investors. Second, foreign investors tend to sell prior to large positive returns. Finally, the permanent impact of...

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Vanderhorstia mertensi Klausewitz, 1974, is a recently acknowledged alien fish in the Mediterranean Sea, hitherto observed only from Fethiye Bay, Turkey. To explore its distribution, trawl bycatch from eastern Antalya and Iskenderun was examined and an underwater survey was performed off Kas (western Antalya). An established population was found off Güvercin Island, Kas, and six specimens were ...

Many stocks of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) on both sides of the North Atlantic are currently at much reduced levels of biomass, but this situation is not in all instances the result of long, continuous decline. Most Northwest Atlantic stocks declined to low levels during the 1970s, but increased during the 1980s before declining even more severely during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Several ...

This paper considers view-dependent rendering method for 3D models represented as binary volumetric octree (BVO) together with reference images and corresponding cameras locations. This representation was proposed and accepted to MPEG-4 AFX (Animated Framework eXtension) as Octree Image Node in the Depth-Image Based Representations (DIBR) group. Originally DIBR-objects were assumed to be diffus...