The oldest branch of dialectology is the study of what is today often referred to as " dialect geography " , i.e. the study of the geographical distribution of language varieties, as opposed to the study of many other relations between language varieties and external conditioning factors, such as social class, age, and sex. While it is clear that geography has a massive influence on the distrib...

Research has increasingly focused on intentional or planned lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB)parent families; however, how young adults in these families navigate the aftermath of parental break-up and subsequent repartnering is unexamined. This qualitative study of 20 young adults who had experienced their LGB parents’ relationship dissolution and/or the formation of an LGB stepfamily examined how ...

While the debate on whether countries should or should not sign trade agreements with selected partners continues, governments have significantly stepped up the rate at which they enter into such agreements. A number of such agreements have been signed lately and many more are under negotiation. Multinational firms get impacted by these agreements irrespective of whether these are beneficial to...

Context: The context of this paper is Global Software Development (GSD) which is a current trend concerning the development of software in a distributed manner throughout different countries. This paradigm has several advantages, but unfortunately there are a number of challenges that hinder projects’ successful development. Objective: The main goal of this paper is to discover which factors af...

Grids aim at constructing a virtual single image of heterogeneous resources and provide uniform interface for distributed internet applications. China also devotes much passion and endeavour to the evolution of grid projects. Based on the experience in building and enhancing Chinese grids in collaboration with colleagues from around the globe, it is important to choose grid technologies that su...

Radio labeling is derived from the assignment of radio frequencies (channels) to a set of transmitters. The frequencies assigned depend on the geographical distance between the transmitters: the closer two transmitters are, the greater the potential for interference between their signals. Thus when the distance between two transmitters is small, the difference in the frequencies assigned must b...