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This paper is basically a brief compare and contrast study regarding two different lines of development with regard to the European film and television production sector which has taken place in Europe during the last three decades. On the one hand it examines and evaluates the phenomenon that is the rampant rise of runaway production of international film and television and which has predominantl

This is a commentary on the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in the CASE OF DELFI AS v. ESTONIA. This text represents the English first version that was translated and published in the Latvian weekly legal journal Jurista vards, in a special issue on the Delfi case.

Transient wave propagation in a finite bi-isotropic slab is treated. The incident field impinges normally on the slab, which can be inhomogeneous wrt depth. Dispersion and bi-isotropy are modeled by time convolutions in the constitutive relations. Outside the slab the medium is assumed to be homogeneous, non-dispersive and isotropic, and such that there is no phase velocity mismatch at the boundar

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The description of the pronunciation of the mora nasal in Standard Japanese varies considerably in the literature. The mora nasal is the syllable final nasal in Japanese (e.g. ‘n’ in Honda). Along with other elements, it came into the Japanese language with early loan-words from Chinese and extended the originally simpler phonotactics, which consisted of (C)V-syllables only. The variation in the d

Memory for pictures is known to surpass memory for corresponding concrete words, an effect often attributed to the more distinctive perceptual form of pictures. A consequence of this view is that picture superiority would not survive a transformation in which only semantic, not perceptual, features were preserved from study to test, such as studying a picture of a horse and recognising the word "h

In this paper, an extension of Modelica, entitled Optimica, is presented. Optimica extends Modelica with language constructs that enable formulation of dynamic optimization problems based on Modelica models. There are several important design problems that can be addressed by means of dynamic optimization, in a wide range of domains. Examples include, minimum-time problems, parameter estimation pr

This paper analyses an impact of religious practice on the development of the tense system, in particular the future tense. There have been rich typological studies on the tense, which reveal that a basic tense distinction is either past vs. non-past or past vs. present vs. future in most languages. From evolutionary/historical perspectives, the former case is older than the latter one, i.e. the f