(1) a. Velar Palatalisation (velars change into postalveolars) : kU c] ruk­a ‘hand (  ) ’ – ruc) ­is) c) ­a (  ), ruc) ­ en’k­a (  ) b. Affricate Palatalisation (affricates become postalveolar) : tsU c] konets ‘end’ – konc) ­i­t’ ‘ to finish’ otets ‘father’ – otc) ­estv­o ‘patronymic’ c. Iotation (many disparate changes of consonants) : tU c] s) ut ‘ joker’ – s) uc) ­u ‘...

Robyn Ott is the 2004-2005 Managing Editor for the Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology. She wrote this eBrief while working under the direction of Professor Drew Kershen on the Project on Intellectual Property Rights in Living Matter. Below, Ms. Ott gives an overview of patentability requirements in India for plants, animals, and microorganisms. India is a signatory country to the Trade Rela...

It is known that multicast is an efficient method of supporting group communication as it allows the transmission of the packets to multiple destinations using fewer network resources. Along with the widespread deployment of the third generation cellular networks and the fast-improving capabilities of the mobile devices, content and service providers are increasingly interested in supporting mu...

Recently Ott, Tomforde and Willis introduced a notion of one-sided shifts over infinite alphabets and proposed a definition for sliding block codes between such shift spaces. In this work we propose a more general definition for sliding block codes between Ott-Tomforde-Willis shift spaces and then we prove Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon type theorems for them, finding sufficient and necessary conditions...

VALADARES – AND CHASSIGNY: ONE EJECTION EVENT? E.V. Korochantseva 1,2 , S. P. Schwenzer 3,4 , A.I. Buikin 1,2 , J. Hopp 1 , U. Ott 3 , and M. Trieloff 1 , 1 Institut für Geowissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany (e-mail: [email protected]), 2 Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry, Kosygin St. 19, 119991 Mosc...

This study explores the role of issuance expenses in explaining the fall in stock value for OTC stock offerings that raise cash for debt reduction purposes. It estimates that over half of the sample's −2.79% two-day fall in stock value can be accounted for by issuance expenses when using a lower bound measure of issuance expenses. This estimate contrasts with the one-fifth estimate suggested by...