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The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics
- S. Greenhill, R. Blust, R. Gray
- Computer Science, Medicine
- Evolutionary bioinformatics online
- 1 January 2008
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Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present [and Comments and Replies]
- Thomas N. Headland, L. Reid, +8 authors S. Seitz
- History, Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1 February 1989
It is widely assumed that modem hunter-gatherer societies lived until very recently in isolation from food-producing societies and states and practiced neither cultivation, pastoralism, nor trade.… Expand
Proto-Oceanic *mana Revisited
- R. Blust
- Sociology
- 1 December 2007
Few linguistic terms in the history of anthropology have had greater currency than mana. While anthropological debate about this term has tended to center on the correct interpretation of the native… Expand
Branchial cobalt uptake in the carp, Cyprinus carpio: Effect of calcium channelblockers and calcium injection
- S. Comhaire, R. Blust, L. Van Ginneken, P. Verbost, O. Vanderborght
- Chemistry
- Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
- 1 February 1998
Using tracer-uptake studies we investigated whether the branchial uptakeof cobalt occurs via selective, inhibitable, calcium uptake routes.Modulation of the calcium transport system was performed… Expand
The Position of the Languages of Eastern Indonesia: A Reply to Donohue and Grimes
- R. Blust
- Sociology
- 1 June 2009
Donohue and Grimes (2008) question the validity of the claims (1) that most of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia fall into a Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) subgroup that appears to… Expand
Is there a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?
- R. Blust
- Sociology
- 1 June 2008
For some seven decades a number of Austronesian languages in the Lesser Sunda islands of eastern Indonesia have been assigned to a "Bima-Sumba" subgroup. No evidence has ever been presented for this… Expand
Absence of albumin in the plasma of the common carp Cyprinus carpio: binding of fatty acids to high density lipoprotein
- H. De Smet, R. Blust, L. Moens
- Biology
- Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
- 1 July 1998
It was investigated whether an albumin-like protein, active in the transport of free fatty acids, is present in the blood of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. In contrast with the brown trout Salmo… Expand
Must sound change be linguistically motivated
- R. Blust
- Philosophy
- 2005
A number of well-documented sound changes in Austronesian languages do not appear to be either phonetically or phonologically motivated. Although it is possible that some of these changes involved… Expand
Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology
- R. Blust
- Sociology
- 1 December 2003
This paper attempts to answer three questions having to do with early Austronesian morphology: (1) what were the several functions of prefixes of the shape *ka-, (2) what were the functions of a… Expand