The transmission of linguistic change within a speech community is characterized by incrementation within a faithfully reproduced pattern characteristic of the family tree model, while diffusion across communities shows weakening of the original pattern and a loss of structural features. It is proposed that this is the result of the difference between the learning abilities of children and adul...

This paper presents the results of the application of a bit-string model of languages (Schulze and Stauffer 2005) to problems of taxonomic patterns. The questions addressed include the following: (1) Which parameters are minimally needed for the development of a taxonomic dynamics leading to the type of distribution of language family sizes currently attested (as measured in the number of langu...

A Pattern Recognition of a Probability Distribution of amino acids is obtained for selected families of proteins. The mathematical model is derived from a theory of protein families formation which is derived from application of a Pauli’s master equation method.

Park managers are concerned that moose (Alces alces), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) may be avoiding areas along the 130 km road through Denali National Park as a result of high traffic volume, thus decreasing opportunities for visitors to view wildlife. A wildlife monitoring system was developed in 1996 that used 19 landscape level viewsheds, stratified into four...

Scientists conducting research in the field of LGBTQ+ Mental Health, like scientists any other field, have option submitting their work to a more specialized or general interest jo...

The purpose of the present study was to explore the frequently observed dynamics distinctive to the sibling incest family system, and to evaluate how these dynamics might predispose the family system to act out its dysfunction through sibling sexual conduct. Being a descriptive study by nature, the data is based on 25 families which were reported to the Boulder County (Colorado) Sexual Abuse Te...

introduction. this is quasi experimental research in order to determine and compare the learning level of nursing skills ( in b.a students) with self-directed learning and tutor-directed learning pattern in shaheed beheshti univeristy of medical sciences and health services, nursing and midwifery faculty, 1998-1999. methods. first of all, a questionnaire composed of some demographic data such a...

The reactions of hospitalized neuropsychiatric patients were compared after exposure to a film depicting a disturbed pattern of communication between a mother, father, schizophrenic son, and psychotherapist. As hypothesized, the following results occurred: (a) Adequately adjusted, relative to inadequately adjusted, patients made fewer errors when asked questions about the filmed interaction, an...

This study uses data from the 1989, 1993, and 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys to examine trends and determinants of contraceptive method choice in Kenya. The analysis, based on two-level multinomial regression models, shows that, over time, the use of modern contraceptive methods, especially long-term methods, is higher in urban than in rural areas, whereas the pattern is reversed for...