Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 27-42 (16 pages) It has been suggested that classifiers in Chinese serve a semantic function of categorizing the nouns in terms ...

Thanks to major progress in the understanding and management of rare congenital diseases and syndromes, many patients with these rare disorders are now living longer lives. With this progress it has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is often assumed that, if a few species are introduced into a relatively empty environment, the subsequent diversification will take the ...

A goal of precision medicine 1 is to stratify patients in order to improve diagnosis and medical treatment. Translational investigators are bringing to bear ever greater amounts of heterogeneous ...

Are species constructs of the human mind? -- Why is there a species problem? -- Is the biological species a class or is it an individual? -- What are traits in taxonomy? -- Diversity within the ...

Q: Do osprey have their own taxonomic classification? A: Yes, osprey are the only species in the Pandionidae family in the entire world. They are also the only raptor with a unique foot morphology ...