In this talk I am concerned with the following questions: 1. What is phonological typology? 2. How are phonological typology and phonetic typology the same/different? 3. How are phonological typology and general phonology the same/different? 4. How are phonological typology and general typology the same/different? Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson, Martinet, Greenberg and others, and...

School libraries confront significant changes in the digital age, the age of Web 2.0 and of participatory culture. Radical Change theory, based on the digital age principles of interactivity, connectivity, and access, is germane to understanding these transformations. The theory was originally developed to explain changes in digital age books for youth. It is expanded here through the creation ...

Much of the world's boreal forest occurs on permafrost (perennially cryotic ground). As such, changes in permafrost conditions have implications for forest function and, within the zone of discontinuous permafrost (30-80% permafrost in areal extent), distribution. Here, forested peat plateaus underlain by permafrost are elevated above the surrounding permafrost-free wetlands; as permafrost thaw...

The objective of this study is to analyze the graphic representation of polarimetric signatures of airborne SAR-R99B data (L-band) in primary forest, secondary successions, forest with timber exploitation and those under recovery after a surface burning process. Additionally, another objective is an exploratory analysis of scattering mechanisms of forest typology in accordance with the alternat...

The effect of lattice mismatch on the chemical ordering of epitaxial FePt films was studied. The results showed that the lattice constant scd of the FePt films decreased with increasing lattice mismatch « from about 2.23% to 6.33%. Upon further increase of « to about 8.8%, c increased. On the other hand, the variation of the lattice constant sad of the FePt films showed a reversal behavior to t...

Pasturing of livestock in forests has had profound consequences for Europe's landscapes. In Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF), cattle pasturing was a part of traditional forest use that ceased only in the second half of the twentieth century. We collected information on the institutional changes governing forest cattle pasturing and the changes in spatial extent of cattle presence in BPF in last...