This study attempted to determine the types of semantic change of the selected Cebuano words from the written texts, specifically the Bisaya magazine and spoken language of Cebuano speakers aged 15 – 40 years old living in Cebu province. Twenty (20) Cebuano words were analyzed using Campbell’s (1998) and Crowley’s (1997) classifications of the semantic change. The results revealed that metaphor...

This paper analyzes the role of bank competition on the life-cycle dynamics of non-financial industries. Using multi-dimensional data sets, which contain information on job creation and destruction for establishments in U.S. manufacturing sectors operating in different geographical regions and over time, I find evidence that bank competition accelerates the expansion of start-ups and helps them...

An analytical formula for energy distribution in a neutral gas of point vortices is obtained. Corresponding numerical results are in full agreement with those of Campbell and O’Neil.

stitution is to be established on the model of Charcot's famous Salpetikre Hospital in Pairs for the physicial treatment of disease by hypnotism and for the " cure of delusions and criminal tendencies." It is hoped that hypnotic suggestion, under favourable circumstances, might play a part in combating criminal tendencies. An interesting and characteristically rambling article by Andrew Lang it...

Literary scholars and psychologists have long remarked striking similarities in the depiction of male heroes in the world's folk tale traditions. The best-known attempt to document and explain these similarities is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1936). Campbell's work differs in detail from other prominent attempts to define universal features of heroes, however its grand the...

Previous studies have researched the possibility of studying the speaker idiosyncrasies on phonetic regularities, by means of temporal parameters like the segmental duration. In Spain we have an official language for all State, Castilian or Spanish language, and various community languages; Catalan language is the language of Catalonia, but people of Catalonia is bilingual. Besides, people of d...

Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals Çağlar Akçay *, William E. Wood , William A. Searcy , Christopher N. Templeton , S. Elizabeth Campbell , Michael D. Beecher a,b,d Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Graduate Program in Neurobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University ...

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representative of the family known as the Macleans of Boreray (the first branch of the Macleans of Ardgour in Argyllshire) and had early in this century purchased the estate of Drimnin, in Morvern, on the Sound of Mull, from Macdonakl of Glenaladale. His mother was the youngest daughter of Donald Macleod, of Bernera, in the county of Inverness. The subject of this notice was their tenth child a...