India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a culture marked by a high degree of syncretism and cultural pluralism. The nation is a federal republic consisting of 28 states and seven Union Territories. The Indian peninsula has an area of 3.28 million sq kms (about 1/3 the land mass of the US), and its coastline stretches about 5,700 kms on the mainland and about 7,500 kms includi...

I specify a typology for the extreme of inflectional morphology, namely suppletion (as in go went). This is an unusual enterprise within typology, and it requires a ‘canonical’ approach. That is, I define the canonical or best instance, through a set of converging criteria, and use this point in theoretical space to locate the various occurring types. Thus the criteria establish the dimensions ...

Ancient Eastern thought posited the ontological integration of the "mind-body world". The body-mind syncretism was a foundational precept in Eastern philosophy in which "Gih" ("Qi") was considered the basic entity of the universe and the human being. This study attempts to build a meta-theory and to demonstrate empirical designs for Gih, discussing the problems of the mind and body, or the subj...

Introduction There are no established doctrines for treating Bells facial nerve paralysis (Bell's palsy), as there are still controversies in relation to the etiology of the disease. According to available sources 75% of all patients experience minor damage to the myelin sheath, thus usually recovering spontaneously and with no particular treatment. However, the rest of the patients may, withou...

The study of the History Spanish America owes much to western written culture, also today legacy Amerindian oral tradition is recovered. primary sources offer a spontaneous panorama in testimonial, rich, diverse and abundant, not exempt from necessary criticism crossing testimonies. notorious american chronicles obey specific time place, manifest an explicit interest knowledge possession New Wo...