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People emigrate because of economic reasons and send remittances on regular basis to their family. We administered a questionnaire in two communities of the State of Puebla (Mexico) aimed at collecting information about self-victimization by emigrant ...

Voltaire produced his works within the literary-historical period of Classicism and Enlightenment, in which the prevalent role of literature was educational. The period also dictated what genre, theme, style and structure authors should follow. However, more and more changes of literary genres appear, and the process of stratification of literature into high and trivial takes place. The aim of this paper is to describe the polarization of two mutually different processes involved in the literary shaping of Voltaire's philosophical narrative

This author believes that our inability to get to the real source of our biggest problems, repair our unsustainable systems, find peace, justice, and equality, resolve confusion, anxiety, depression, and resignation; are sourced in our lack of correct unified, thinking.

Abstract. This paper describes the 2007 meeting speech-to-text system for lecture rooms developed at the Interactive Systems Laboratories (ISL), for the multiple distant microphone condition, which has been evaluated in the RT-07 Rich Transcription Meeting Evaluation sponsored by the US National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). We describe the principal differences between our current system and those submitted in previous years, namely the use of a signal adaptive frontend (realized by warped-twice warped minimum variance distortionless response spectral estimation), improved acoustic (including maximum mutual information estimation) and language models, cross adaptation between systems which differ in the front-end as well as the phoneme set, the use of a discriminative criteria instead of the signal-to-noise ratio for the selection of the channel to be used and the use of decoder based speech segmentation. 1

This is an interview of Manohar Mouli Biswas, Bangla Dalit activist and writer, where he expresses his views about the identity of Dalit people and the historiography of caste in India. He further speaks about the uniqueness of Bangla Dalit literature, its similarities with Dalit writings in other Indian regional languages and the position of Dalit women writers. He is candid enough to speak about certain autobiographical elements that provided him with the impetus to be a Dalit writer. He further speaks about Dalit drama and its performances which is a marker of its acceptance amongst the viewers. He emphasises on the role of translation of Dalit literature to generate awareness among the larger reading public towards Dalit literature.