The work selected for this portfolio comprises two language-specific case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the…
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Most histories of contact between different societies and cultures begin in 1492 when Columbus first set foot in the Americas. This study, in contrast, aims to challenge such Eurocentric approaches to world history. It examines the long period of contact and exchange from 750 to…
What threat is the Covid-19 pandemic to the practice and philosophy of contact improvisation and will contact be able to resume in a post-pandemic world? Contact improvisation, a genre of dance designed for movers to maintain physical contact with another body in space and time,…
Experimental and theoretical analyses have been conducted upon electrical connector contacts under low frequency fretting conditions. The phenomena of "fretting" -relative micromovements in the components parts of an electrical contact - is known to take a major role in the dege…