Friday, August 24, 2012

A term in astronomy: meteorite for a surviving space rock hitting Earth

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Meteorites originate from celestial objects such as asteroids or comets that break apart while entering Earth's atmosphere. A penetrati...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Mayan proper names

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A proper name is a designation of a unique item. From the decipherment of various hieroglyphic inscriptions and texts, found at Mayan place...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Otulum, a former name of the Mayan city of Palenque

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Otulum is a former place name of the Mayan city of Palenque , a Maya site in the lower foothills of the Sierra de Chiapas—southeast of Vil...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Polyphony versus homophony

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The noun polyphony derives from the Greek words polys (many) and phone (voice, sound) and means “variety of sounds” [1]. With the Greek w...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Glottography and semasiography

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Glottography is the recording of language-based utterances. To be more precise: the recording of the vocal cords during respiration and pho...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

The word “hieroglyph” means sacred carving

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The Greek word hieroglyph originally meant sacred carving or holy carving [1-3]. This noun is now synonymous with logograph : a single wri...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Acronym in fire ecology: WUI for wildland urban interface

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In geography and ecology, WUI   stands for “ wildland urban interface , ” also written “ wildland-urban interface ” [1]. This is the belt o...