Glenn Bruns, another Bell Labs colleague, said that “I think Alan was the only person I’ve met who could do theory and also low-level hackery”. At Bell Labs Alan also worked with Peter Danielsen on the Web InterFace Language, WIFL for short: a way of embedding API descriptions in ...
We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We consider the amount of saving, the saving rate, and the share of expenditure, as well as per capita expenditure on education, health, assets, house repairs, food, non-food, and...
Séguy, who initiated the research of relating linguistic distance to geographic distance [26], observed a logarithmic relationship, which is since then assumed to be present between the two types of distances. Gooskens [21] was the first to operationalise the possibility of contact using ...