Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA c School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, China Dept. of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, USA f School of Mathematics and Statistics,...

This paper examines the economic significance of South Caucasus' Zangazur Corridor in terms achieving long-term peace, connectivity and integration region, boosting regional growth. It further claims that will aid future Caucasus reconciliation cooperation.Upon signing declaration, establishment corridor became even more critical. The connect Republic Azerbaijan Nakhchivan Autonomous via Armeni...

The Khoja Ismailis of the Indian subcontinent have spoken two languages in a mildly unstable diglossic relationship for centuries. From the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s there was a steady, large scale immigration of Khoja Ismailis to East Africa. The changing situation in the subcontinent along with the experience in Africa resulted in many of these people learning three additional langu...

the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the soviet :union: marked the start of a new era in international relations. when russia's power and influence weakened, some newly independent states of central asia and the caucasus have taken tendency toward relation with west. for europe resource of new countries notably oil and gas was very important for independent from russia energy....

Michael A. Reynolds, an FPRI Senior Fellow, is an Associate Professor in Princeton‟s Department of Near Eastern Studies where he teaches courses on modern Middle Eastern and Eurasian history, comparative empire, military and ethnic conflict, and secularism. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)...

Advances in direct radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils and the development of archaeostratigraphic chronologies now allow refined regional models for Neanderthal-AMH coexistence. In addition, they allow us to explore the issue of late Neanderthal survival in regions of Western Eurasia located within early routes of AMH expansion such as the Caucasus. He...

early bronze age (eba) in the middle east is considered to be the dawn of civilization, spread of writing, and proto-urbanism; and mesopotamia was the center of these historical events. cultural material remains at the beginning of this period in this vast area – including western iran, caucasus (also beyond), anatolia, levant and northern mesopotamia – have wonderful similarities in spite of d...

The advent of complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data has ushered in a new phase of human evolutionary studies. Even quite limited volumes of complete mtDNA sequence data can now be used to identify the critical polymorphisms that define sub-clades within an mtDNA haplogroup, providing a springboard for large-scale high-resolution screening of human mtDNAs. This strategy has in the pas...

This study examined the performance and future predictions for the Middle East produced by 18 global climate models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report. Under the Special Report on Emission Scenarios A2 emissions scenario the models predict an overall temperature increase of ∼1.4 K by mid-century, increasing to almost 4 K by late-century for t...

This paper presents an acoustic study of voiceless fricatives in the Temirgoy dialect of the Adyghe language (North West Caucasian, Circassian). The Circassian languages are well-known for their large consonant inventories. Using data gathered on a field trip to the Caucasus, the analysis focusses on three acoustic properties: centre of gravity, standard deviation and general slope pattern. Res...