Lawu is a severely endangered, undocumented Ngwi (Loloish) language spoken in Yunnan, China.This paper presents a preliminary sketch of Lawu phonology based football sleds for turf on lexico-phonetic data recorded from two speakers in 2008, with special attention to the tone splits and mergers that distinguish Lawu from other Ngwi languages.All ton
Abstract Background The studies of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career interests have progressed substantially over the recent years.However, the influence of career awareness on STEM career interests is an area that requires further discussion.Evidently, Chinese adolescents have limited awareness and interest in STEM ca
Hydrocarbon exploration and production activities are basic to the functioning of the oil and gas industry, while concession contracts and fees are central concepts in the aforementioned activities.The authors consider several questions regarding these concepts, such as: what is the legislative, institutional, and fiscal framework in certain Europe
The reconstruction of ancient insect ectoparasitism is challenging, mostly because of the extreme scarcity of fossils with obvious ectoparasitic features such as sucking-piercing mouthparts and specialized attachment organs.Here we describe esee rb3 a bizarre fly larva (Diptera), Qiyia jurassica gen.et sp.nov., from the Jurassic of China, that repr
Background The treatment of coronary microvascular disease (CMVD) has always been the focus of non-coronary obstructive ischemic heart disease.Adenosine injection and adenosine disodium triphosphate (ATP) injection, which are common clinical loading drugs to determine coronary flow reserve (CFR) and evaluate CMVD, are related but significantly diff