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Pharyngeal consonants, low back vowels, segments with secondary pharyngealization, and vowels with retracted tongue root positions all involve some constriction in the pharynx. But there is no consensus among phoneticians and phonologists about how to describe these actions and …

The church of SS. Pietro e Paolo d'Agro, Sicily, located some fifty kilometers south of Messina, constitutes one of the most sophisticated and coherent works of architecture to emerge from the Norman rule of the island. Constructed as part of a Basilian monastery, the church is …

The Mesoproterozoic (1.4–0.9 Ga) Grenville Orogeny led to the formation of the supercontinent Rodinia. One unique characteristic of the Grenville Orogeny is that it produced a volumetrically significant amount of zirconium- (Zr) enriched granitoids, evidently more than any perio…

While many writers have emphasized the vital importance of Hobbes and the natural law tradition in the formation of Spinoza's political thought, most have neglected or underestimated the significance of Machiavelli and the republican tradition of civic virtue. I claim that it is…