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Abstract This study presents a comparative analysis of F1 and F2 vowel frequencies from Pijal Media Lengua (PML) and Imbabura Quichua. Mixed-effects models are used to test Spanish-derived high and low vowels against their Quichua-derived counterparts for statistical significance. Spanish-derived and Quichua-derived high vowels are also tested against Spanish-derived mid vowels. This analysis suggests that PML may be manipulating as many as eight vowels where Spanishderived high and low vowels coexist as near-mergers with their Quichua-derived counterparts, while high and mid vowels coexist with partial overlap. Quichua, traditionally viewed as a three-vowel system, shows similar results and may be manipulating as many as six vowels.

Dataset related to article: Heavy-oxide glasses with superior mechanical assets for nonlinear fiber applications in the mid-infrared. Cl��ment Strutynski, Florian Calzavara, Th��o Guerineau, Laura Loi, Romain Laberdesque, Jean-Michel Rampnoux, Steeve Morency, Yannick Ledemi, Yannick Petit, Marc Dussauze, Fr��d��ric D��s��v��davy, Fr��d��ric Smektala, Sylvain Danto, Lionel Canioni, Younes Messaddeq, Evelyne Fargin, Thierry Cardinal. Optical Materials Express. 2021, volume 11, issue 5, pp. 1420-1430 https://doi.org/10.1364/ome.417699 The data were measured internally with instrumentations belonging to the tem in Bordeaux. UV-Visible-NIR transmission spectra of the glass were recorded in the 0.2 ��m - 3.3 ��m range using an Agilent Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR spectrometer. Transmission in the Mid-IR was collected using a Bruker FTIR Optical losses measurements of single-index fibers were carried out using the cutback method on several meters-long samples. The Raman gain cross-section was calculated from spontaneous scattering spectra measured in in VV (vertical polarization for the excitation and the analysis) configuration using a micro-Raman setup. A spectroscopic phase modulated ellipsometric measurement had thus been performed with an UVISEL apparatus (HORIBA Jobin-Yvon) to determine the refractive index n of the GGBLaY glass, after a fine calibration of the ellipsometre with the reference Silica glass over the spectral range between 0.260 ��m to 2 ��m thanks to the comparison to literature.

Harry Alpert (1912􏰀1977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific status of sociology and social science more generally, proper social science methodology, the practical value of social science, the academic institutionalisation of sociology, and the unity-of- science viewpoint. Second, this paper illuminates Alpert’s complex involvement with certain tensions in mid-century US social science that were themselves linked to major transformations in national science policy, public patronage, and unequal relations between the social and natural sciences. We show that Alpert’s views about the intellectual foundations, practical relevance, and institutional standing of the social sciences were, in some important respects, at odds with his NSF policy work. Although remembered as a quantitative evangelist and advocate for the unity-of-science viewpoint, Alpert was in fact an urbane critic of natural-science envy, social scientific certainty, and what he saw as excessive devotion to quantitative methods.

In this paper we present a complete framework for modelling and estimating vessel GHG emissions and related air pollutants (i.e. CO2 and SOx, NOx and PM) in ports, based on data collected from the Automatic Identification System (AIS). Our approach adopts a modified lambda architecture approach, which consists of a knowledge extraction batch processing step and a real time emissions calculation step. The approach makes it possible to automatically identify the berths or ports where emissions are high in a consistent and uniform way across the globe. This research is part of the Project OPS Master Plan for Spanish Ports (2015-EU-TM-0417) which is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the building of the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). http://poweratberth.eu/

The first instar of Hoperius planatus Fall, 1927 is described and illustrated for the first time with an emphasis on the chaetotaxy of the head capsule, head appendages, legs, last abdominal segment, and urogomphi. Hoperius planatus is characterized by the presence of additional campaniform sensilla (pores) on the frontoclypeus, representing a unique character state within the tribe Colymbetini (Colymbetinae). A phylogenetic analysis based on 42 first-instar characters using the program TNT reinforces the hypothesis of monophyletic origin of the Colymbetini and suggests a placement of Hoperius Fall, 1927 as sister to a clade comprised of Neoscutopterus J. Balfour-Browne, 1943, Meladema Laporte, 1835, and Bunites Spangler, 1972. Members of this clade are uniquely characterized within the Colymbetini by the presence of a large number of additional spiniform sensilla on the urogomphus. Fil: Barman, E. H.. Georgia State University; Estados Unidos Fil: Michat, Mariano Cruz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental y Aplicada. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental y Aplicada; Argentina Fil: Alarie, Yves. Laurentian University. Department Of Biology; Canadá Fil: Wolfe, G. W.. Georgia State University; Estados Unidos

In Ecuador there exists a dynamic language contact continuum between Urban Spanish and Rural Quichua. This study explores the effects of competing phonologies with an analysis of voice onset time (VOT) production in and across three varieties of Ecuadorian highland Spanish, Quichua, and Media Lengua. Media Lengua is a mixed language that contains Quichua systemic elements and a lexicon of Spanish origin. Because of this lexical-grammatical split, Media Lengua is considered the most central point along the language continuum. Native Quichua phonology has a single series of voiceless stops (/p/, /t/, and /k/), while Spanish shows a clear voicing contrast between stops in the same series. This study makes use of nearly 8,000 measurements from 69 participants to (i) document VOT production in the aforementioned language varieties and (ii) analyse the effects of borrowings on VOT. Results based on mixed effects models and multidimensional scaling suggest that the voicing contrast has entered both Media Lengua and Quichua through Spanish lexical borrowings. However, the VOT values of voiced stops in Media Lengua align with those of Rural and L2 Spanish while Quichua shows significantly longer prevoicing values, suggesting some degree of overshoot.

This dataset contains sensor values from Force Myography (FMG) sensors and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and corresponding Ankle Joint Power and Ground Reaction Force. The FMG strap was positioned about two inches above the ankle of the left leg. Four IMUs were positioned on foot, distal shank, distal thigh, and proximal thigh of the left leg. There are sensors values and corresponding reference values from nine participants and five different walking speeds (0.4 m/s, 0.7 m/s, 1.0 m/s, 1.3 m/s, and 1.6 m/s). This dataset portrays how values from different sensors vary with respect to Ankle Joint Power and Ground Reaction Force. The dataset can be utilized to train machine learning models to predict Ankle Joint Power and Ground Reaction Force using FMG and IMUs sensor values, which in turn can eliminate the requirement of a complex biomechanical setup to measure Ankle Joint Power and Ground Reaction Force.

Report by IUPAP Working Group 9 (WG9), International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics (ICNP).