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URL. www .scribd .com. Scribd Inc. (pronounced / ˈskrɪbd /) is a digital content subscription service providing access to a large collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and other written and spoken content. The company operates three main platforms Everand, Scribd and SlideShare. [1] [2] [3]
Bibliography (from Ancient Greek: βιβλίον, romanized : biblion, lit. 'book' and -γραφία, -graphía, 'writing'), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology [1] (from Ancient Greek: -λογία, romanized : -logía ). English author and ...
Ferdinand de Saussure (/ s oʊ ˈ sj ʊər /; [2] French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century.
Filipinologists. Experts on Filipinology or Philippineology are called filipinologists or philippineologists (Spanish: Filipinologista) (Tagalog: Pilipinolohista ); literally “experts in Philippine culture”. According to Rosa M. Vallejo the "foremost non-Filipino filipinologist" is the Spaniard bibliographer Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa.
Power (statistics) In frequentist statistics, power is a measure of the ability of an experimental design and hypothesis testing setup to detect a particular effect if it is truly present. In typical use, it is a function of the test used (including the desired level of statistical significance ), the assumed distribution of the test (for ...
Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) [1] is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, [note 1] gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the academic study of traditional culture from the ...
Statistical significance. In statistical hypothesis testing, [1] [2] a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were true. [3] More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by , is the probability of the study rejecting the null hypothesis, given that ...
Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. [1] [2] [3] Philology is also defined as the study of literary texts and oral and ...