The Doubly-Filled-Comp Filter (DFCF) of the type *[CP WH that] is known to be fully operative in standardized English, German etc. whereas in older stages of these languages and in various dialects, violations of this filter can be found. Examples are known from Bavarian, Bayer (1984), West Flemish, Haegeman (1992), Swiss German, Bader & Penner (1988), Penner & Bader (1995), Schönenberger (2006...

By Vincent Richards, Superintendent of Emigration and Medical Inspector of Emigrants. A thorough and trustworthy history of cholera amongst emigrants would be of very considerable value, but, unfortunately, for reasons which I have enumerated in my paper on " Inland Emigration," it is impossible, at any rate with reference to the operations of the earlier years, to furnish anything more than the

emigration and cultural differences in host countries is the cause of the mental disorders increase in emigrants. the purpose of the present study was to assess the mental health status of afghan emigrants living in shiraz. in this study 81 afghan emigrants were selected randomly and were assessed by the general health questionnaire (ghq-2b). data were analyzed using hest, x2, pearson correlati...

Two studies are presented that investigated whether and to what extent emigration affects the knowledge of idiomatic expressions in native language. Data on Dutch emigrant idiom were compared data from two groups non-emigrants differing age. Research questions addressed a) possible differences between emigrants non-emigrants, b) effect properties such as familiarity transparency c) participant ...

Recent data on emigrant schooling suggests that emigrants are almost universally more skilled than non-emigrants from the same country. For the case of poor source countries and rich destination countries, this runs counter to the negative selection predicted by the Borjas-Roy model of income maximization. We present a different income maximization model that admits positive selection while at ...

By Vincent Richards, f.r.c.s., &c., Mcdical Inspector of Emigrants. In the April-May (1881) numbers of the Indian Medical Gazette I endeavoured to describe the conditions under which outbreaks o f cholera occurred amongst Assam emigrants, and I endeavoured to shew that whatever effect the former defective water-supply had upon the general health of the emigrants, it could not be held to be the ...

Migration studies on asthma may provide information on its environmental causes. The European Community Respiratory Health Survey has potential advantages due to the number of countries involved, standardized collection of information, assessment of directionality of migration, and availability of physiological data on bronchial responsiveness and atopy. Prevalence rates of symptoms associated ...