This contribution examines the conspicuous presence of lexical blends in the long-running US television show The Simpsons and consists of two parts.The first part involves the formal analysis of 237 nonce blends in the original English-language version of the show, working on the underlying hypothesis that, despite their novelty, the audience is no

Existing studies show how population growth and rising incomes will cause a massive increase in the future global demand for food.We add to the literature by estimating the potential effect of increases in human weight, caused by rising BMI and height, on future calorie requirements.Instead of using a market based approach, the estimations are sole

The Horndeski gravity yields domain wall solutions that connect asymmetric vacua for a certain region of parameters.In the thin wall limit there exist BPS domain walls that connect laubade 1973 stable vacua.That is, the false vacua in this theory follows the same effect obtained in supergravity vacua, i.e., it does not decay according to Coleman-de

Background and Aim: One of the major problems for the isolation and detection of S.pneumoniae from clinical specimens, high sensitivity, rapid autolysis and thus the inability to hold isolates of pneumococcus.So, it is essential to use specific techniques for the preservation of the organism.In this study several different cultures for S.pneumoniae

The examination of the weekly return behavior of the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) index, spanning from 2012 to 2024, was categorized into two distinct states or regimes using the Markov-Switching Autoregressive model.The research findings indicated that the MS(2)-AR(1) model, which includes two states or regimes and a first-order autoregressi