Abstract The eight Western Kho-Bwa varieties are spoken in western Arunachal Pradesh Northeast India and form a small, coherent sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan / Sino-Tibetan) language family. This paper presents 96 sound correspondences, mainly between two Duhumbi Khoitam, with additional evidence from other languages whenever deemed illustrative. On basis these I propose 282 p...

Logic-based languages have already proved to be effective to build individual agents and to enable inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Also, logic tuple centres have shown that logic-based languages can be effectively exploited to rule inter-agent communication so as to build social behaviours. In this paper, we formally define the notion of logic tuple centre as well as the opera...

The idea of holding a randomised clinical trial of rudeness is highly original, but a well-designed one was conducted recently in Israel and has been widely reported. Twenty-four neonatal intensive care teams participated in a training simulation exercise, centred on a preterm infant with necrotising enterocolitis who was deteriorating. Participants were told that a foreign expert on teamwork w...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reach a deeper understanding the Lean principle respect for people (RFP facilitate implementation in Western organizations outside Toyota. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an interpretative, hermeneutic approach understand RFP concept through literature existing research about implementation, and inquiry into underlying meaning principle, by st...

Hypertension is more prevalent and severe in African descendent populations living outside Africa than in any other population. Given this greater burden of hypertension in blacks, it is increasingly necessary to refine strategies to prevent the disorder as well as improve its treatment and control. This review assesses results from clinical trials on lifestyle and pharmacologic interventions t...

Spatial issues are essential in new classes of complex software systems, such as pervasive, multi-agent, and selforganising ones. Understanding the basic mechanisms of spatial coordination is a fundamental issue for coordination models and languages in order to deal with such systems, governing situated interaction in the spatio-temporal fabric. Along this line, in this paper we make space-awar...

We show how the interplay between the fusion formalism of conformal field theory and the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equation leads to explicit formulae for the singular vectors in the highest weight representations of A (1) 1. Infinite dimensional Lie algebras occur everywhere in the study of 2-d conformal field theories: the Virasoro algebra and the affine algebras are the most common examples. Ho...