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Building resilience and reversing frailty: a randomised controlled trial of a primary care intervention for older adults
(2023)Background: There is a need for effective primary care interventions that help older people combat frailty and build resilience. Objective: To study the effectiveness of an optimised exercise and dietary protein ... -
Social Rehabilitation and Torture Prevention Bodies
(Routledge, 2023)Freedom from torture and inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment is a precondition for social rehabilitation in practical and symbolic ways. The prevention of torture is therefore of fundamental importance for the ... -
The Dance of Illusive Perception
(2021)Let’s do a small thought experiment. We conceptualise the world through the information we get from our sensory organs, and a complex deductive process carried out by our brain. Let’s for simplicity focus on our vision, ... -
Wanted Dead or Alive: Skeletal Structure Alteration of Cold-Water Coral Desmophyllum pertusum (Lophelia pertusa) from Anthropogenic Stressors
(2023)Ocean acidification (OA) has provoked changes in the carbonate saturation state that may alter the formation and structural biomineralisation of calcium carbonate exoskeletons for marine organisms. Biomineral production ... -
'Beaten Down and Built Anew': Saint Erkenwald and Old St. Paul�s
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Cognitive Infocommunications
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A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese
(2016)Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the ... -
Tibetan *-as > -os
(2016)Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of ... -
The Evidence for Chinese *-r
(2016)In 1989 Starostin proposed that Old Chinese had a final *-r that later changed to -n (and sometimes -j). Baxter & Sagart subsequently incorporated Starostin’s proposal in their 2014 Old Chinese reconstructions. This essay ... -
Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
(2019)Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but ‘word families’ and ‘allofams’ are important elements in their thinking despite ... -
Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in�Chinese Historical Phonology
(2020)This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals ... -
The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems
(2020)The prevailing internal reconstruction of the Classical Tibetan verbal system accounts for all ablaut phenomena as innovations triggered by erstwhile segmental affixes. The traditional account cannot be correct, because ... -
Two notes on Proto-Ersuic
(2022)This paper looks at the history of Tosu using 'forward reconstruction'. It concludes that Proto-Ersuic changed *-im to *-am already before its breakup as a unity, but the ‘brightening’ of *-a- to -i- took place independently ... -
Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script
(2022)This dataset is a model for handwritten text recognition (HTR) of Sanskrit and Newar Nepalese manuscripts in Pracalit script. This paper introduces the state of the field in Newar literature, Newar manuscripts, and HTR ... -
Business Establishment Opposition to Southern Ireland's Exit from the United Kingdom
(2022)After more than a century of political and economic integration, Southern Ireland exited the United Kingdom in 1922. By identifying the leading business firms of the era and the political and religious allegiances of their ... -
Women?s experience of maternity care during COVID-19 ? a qualitative descriptive study
(2021)Objective To gain insight and understanding of women's views and experiences of maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Design A qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured interviews. Due ...
