Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition.Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its le emt multitool 2.0 change at

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Renal function in heart transplant patients after switch to combined mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor and calcineurin inhibitor therapy

Matthias Helmschrott,1 Rasmus Rivinius,1 Thomas Bruckner,2 Hugo A Katus,1 Andreas O Doesch1 1Department of Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology, 2Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Background: A calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based immunosuppression combined with mammalian target of rapamycin inh

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Language Testing as a Profession: An Interview with Yan Jin

This is an interview with Dr.Yan Jin, le emt multitool 2.0 professor of linguistics and applied linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Chair of the National College English Testing Committee in China.In this interview, Dr.Yan Jin discusses how she started her career as a language tester and why she has dedicated herself to the language te

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