Affirmation Modality in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian

Sub-species diversity of Xanthomonas euvesicatoria Bulgarian and Macedonian strains from pepper

Sub-species diversity of pepper populations of Xanthomonas euvesicatoria in Bulgaria and Macedonia in 2012 was the object of this study. Species determination of 44 strains was performed by molecular methods using two pairs of species-specific primers and RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) analysis of the 16S-23S ITS region with HpaII. The populations were characterized by genotypi...

A Review of AlfaNum Speech Technologies for Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian

This paper gives a brief review of the development of systems for automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis in Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian language, at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The systems developed within this project enable two-way communication between humans and machines. These systems are predecessors to many commercial services such ...

Deciphering Related Languages

We present a method for translating texts between close language pairs. The method does not require parallel data, and it does not require the languages to be written in the same script. We show results for six language pairs: Afrikaans/Dutch, Bosnian/Serbian, Danish/Swedish, Macedonian/Bulgarian, Malaysian/Indonesian, and Polish/Belorussian. We report BLEU scores showing our method to outperfo...

Time and Modality in Avicennan Logic

What drives self-affirmation effects? On the importance of differentiating value affirmation and attribute affirmation.

In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...