Students from South Asia have the lowest graduation rates of all immigrant students attending public secondary schools in Québec’s French-language sector. This study deals with the socio-academic experience of these young people and the factors that influence them. Qualitative interviews with various stakeholders and partners in the province’s education system schools, families and communities ...

This paper, submitted as an entry for the NERSSEAL-2008 shared task, describes a system build for Named Entity Recognition for South and South East Asian Languages. Our paper combines machine learning techniques with language specific heuristics to model the problem of NER for Indian languages. The system has been tested on five languages: Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Oriya. It uses CRF (Co...

The main objective of this paper is to highlight maritime security challenges within the South Western Indian Ocean Region; especially by India and South Africa and to explore the maritime initiatives and developments embarked upon by the two countries respectively. The East coast of South Africa and the West coast of India share the same oceanic territory, i.e. the Indian Ocean. This research ...

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition. Even though, sufficient studies have performed in foreign scripts like Arabic, Chinese and Japanese, only a very few work can be traced for handwritten character recognition mainly for the south Indian scripts. Multiple combinations of vowels and consonants along with its modifiers led t...

In order to determine the prevalence rate of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in south India, the author systematically surveyed four villages with a total population of 6430 persons. Eighteen persons were reported to have died (or nearly died) and revived. Thirteen (72%) of them reported having had NDEs which is about 2 cases per thousand of the population surveyed. Eleven features of the south I...

The goal of the LILA project was the collection of speech databases over cellular telephone networks of five languages in three Asian countries. Three languages were recorded in India: Hindi by first language speakers, Hindi by second language speakers and Indian English. Furthermore, Mandarin was recorded in China and Korean in South-Korea. The databases are part of the SpeechDat-family and fo...

Normative critiques of South-South relations assess the extent to which solidarity and cooperation are achieved among partner countries. However, they tend to overlook the role of inter-ethnic tensions in partnerships and the ways global South actors exercise agency in achieving cooperation. Transnational skilled migration between global South countries is an emerging context where South-South ...

Seven human-specific Alu markers were studied in 574 unrelated individuals from 10 endogamous groups and 2 hill tribes of Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. DNA was isolated, amplified by PCR-SSP, and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, and genotypes were assigned for various Alu loci. Average heterozygosity among caste populations was in the range of 0.292-0.468. Among tribes, the average het...