This article critically examines engagements of village leaders in an NGO-facilitated participatory conservation program in eastern Indonesia. It explores how the program's implementation strengthened leadership legitimacy of a dominant customary social group. Customary leaders ensured distribution according to particular norms, and in organizing village governance upheld specific interests and...

The factors that cause the occurrence of Silariang based on customary law Kajang tribe are social stratification factors, where there degrees class. factor lack education and complex thoughts following times so sometimes they tend to forget their own culture without any interference from parents or family. Economic sareals overy influential for two people live independently what do is considere...

Business Intelligence (BI) fosters proper decision-making in organizations, mainly by providing the means to analyze historical data stored in repositories called Data Warehouses (DW). However, formal representation of which concepts are implemented in a DW rarely exists, which would be important to clarify and semantically describe the domain concepts behind the data stored in a DW, as well as...

VSP (Variable Square Pulse) Nd:YAG laser devices hold the most prominent position among all available laser sources for hair removal. This is due to the long wavelength (1064 nm) which Nd:YAG devices produce. Light with a wavelength of 1064 nm lies in a biological absorption region that allows light to penetrate deep into the skin, but at the same time its absorption in hair follicles is strong...

Our editorial introduction to this volume on drag queens highlights what we believe are some of the most prominent and important themes of female impersonation in the past and today. Building on contributors' articles, a substantial body of literature on female impersonators/drag queens and the social construction of gender, and our own extensive ethnographic experiences in a multitude of drag ...

Based on a model of communication according to which not only words but also body signals constitute lexicons (Poggi, 2007), the study presented aimes at building a lexicon of conductors’ multimodal behaviours requesting intensification and attenuation of sound intensity. In a corpus of concerts and rehearsals, the conductors’ body signals requesting to play or sing forte, piano, crescendo, dim...

Clinical auditing requires codified data for aggregation and analysis of patterns. However in the medical domain obtaining structured data can be difficult as the most natural, expressive and comprehensive way to record a clinical encounter is through natural language. The task of creating structured data from naturally expressed information is known as information extraction. Specialised areas...

Abstract This study presents a method for identifying words that appear in corpus data earlier than their first date of attestation dictionaries. We demonstrate the application this based on large diachronic corpus, TV Corpus, and Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Combining automatic extraction candidate terms from Corpus with comprehensive manual analysis verification, identifies 32 were used s...