VIABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF LANGUAGES IN COMPETITION.

Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition.Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: am22 pro model (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its change at each

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Diet of the Poor in Roman Italy: An Exploration of Wild and Cultivated Plants as an Essential Dietary Component

Most of the population of Roman Italy was poor, whether they were the poor who were constantly in search for food and shelter, or the temporarily poor who were artisans or shopkeepers but could fall into poverty at times (Garnsey, 1998, pp.226-227).In classical literature, pleasures of the mind were favoured over pleasures of the body (Gowers, 1993

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Linkages for Life: Assessing Tomato Value Chain Pathways and Opportunities for Better Livelihoods of Marginal and Vulnerable Groups in Pakistan

This case study offers insights pink chiclets gum into assessing tomato value chain to improving rural livelihoods of marginal and vulnerable groups in rural Punjab, Pakistan.This research is based on qualitative data collected through Focused Group Discussions (FGDs) in two pilot villages of district Muzaffargarh with men and women farmers separat

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