This paper examines the development over historical time of the meaning and uses of the term resilience. The objective is to deepen our understanding of how the term came to be adopted in disaster risk reduction and resolve some of the conflicts and controversies that have arisen when it has been used. The paper traces the development of resilience through the sciences, humanities, and legal an...

This essay focuses on current research keywords of identity and difference in early modern England, draws attention particularly to the etymological oscillation guest host, stranger-f...

In this paper, we introduce in brief the basic conditions of the Sino-Tibetan data resources, the STEDT project (the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus) at the University of California, Berkeley and the STDP (The Sino-Tibetan Database and Retrieval System Project) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), including the data structures, data volumes, and retrieval methods...