QUANTITATIVE METHODS DEMONSTRATE THAT ENVIRONMENT ALONE IS AN INSUFFICIENT PREDICTOR OF PRESENT-DAY LANGUAGE DISTRIBUTIONS IN NEW GUINEA.

Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea.

Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species.A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior.Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the poles suggests that ecological factors influence linguistic geography.However, attempts to quantify the role of environmental factors

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Lip-synchronization: a method without the use of visemes

In the present article we describe a simplified method to resolve the problem of lip synchronization with a previously recorded audio file.The algorithm receives as input the Bone Saws audio file, in a standard format (WAV) and returns as result a text file that contains average amplitude values corresponding to a predefined fraction of a second.In

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A numerical study of two interacting coronal mass ejections

The interaction in the solar wind between two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is investigated using numerical simulations.We Dish Towel show that the nature of the interaction depends on whether the CME magnetic structures interact, but in all cases the result is an equilisation of the speed of the two CMEs.In the absence of magnetic interaction, the

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