| Orthography_Examples Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system. |
| A_Philippine_Leaf A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines. |
| A_Short_Presentation_and_Overview_of_the_Rune_alphabet,_the_Futhark Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time. |
| A_Study_of_Chinese_Writing_Systems Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography . |
| Symbols Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. More than 2,500 signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings. |
| Truetype_fonts_by_Curtis_Clark Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets. |
| World_Writing_Systems Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies. |
| The_Bauu_Institute Specialises in social science research, publishing, and other needs; offering services in research, database design and maintenance, graphic design, GIS mapping, and other areas for the social science |
| Institute_for_Social_and_Economic_Research_and_Policy_(ISERP)_at_Columbia_University Columbia University, NY,USA. Information on centers, projects, seed grants, workshops, events, and research fellows at the Institute. |
| Ivo_Pilar_Institute_of_Social_Sciences Information about the institute, governance, activities and emloyees. Zagreb, Croatia. |
| Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human_Development A multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of processes of human development and education and their evolutionary, social, historical, and institutional contexts. Features news, pub |
| Scottish_Centre_for_Research_on_Social_Justice The Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice [SCRSJ] is based jointly at the University of Glasgow's Urban Studies Department and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at the Univer |
| Stanford_IIS_Initiative_on_Distance_Learning Program created by the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University to promote the development of social science in post-Communist countries. |
| Österreichische_Kulturdokumentation A non-university institute for applied cultural research and cultural documentation based in Vienna. Site provides selected publications in PDF, links for current projects, and event information, as w |
| The_Annual_R&M_Symposium_(RAMS) Annual reliability and maintainability conference. Includes a message from the chair, on-line registration, and a program brochure. |
| ASQC_Reliability_Division The reliability part of the American Society for Quality Control, a quality improvement organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. Includes general information and how to join. |
| Design_Analytx_International Provide tools to do probabalistic systems design analysis. Includes information on consultancy and seminars. |
| Electronics_Quality_and_Reliability_Center A division of Sandia National Laboratories. Includes information on the center as a whole, training offered, ways to work with the center, and related links. |
| Equipment_Reliability_Institute A specialized engineering school that focuses on solving hardware reliability problems. |
| INEEL_Center_for_Risk_and_Reliability Demonstrates improved Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) methods and tools to PRA/PSA practitioners. |
| International_Reliabilitiy_Physics_Symposium Conference in April, 2002. Includes information on hotel, tutorials, poster sessions, and a history of the event. |
| Maintenance_and_Reliability_Center An R&D group at the University of Tennessee. Includes information on their mission, internship program, staff, continuing education and related links. |
| Quanterion_Solutions Provides reliability engineering consulting services aimed at improving system reliability. |
| Reliability_Analysis_Center Offers data, information, software, and consulting in reliability, maintainability, supportability, and quality engineering. |
| Reliability_Analysis_in_Mechanical_Engineering_Design A summary and the first two chapters of a PhD thesis. |
| Reliability_Center,_Inc_ Offer root cause analysis training, reliability consulting, root cause analysis facilitations, FMEA facilitations, and reliability assessments. |
| Reliability_Direct,_Inc_ Provides e-commerce solutions for electric motor condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and reliability products as well as other centrifugal and reciprocating machinery. |
| Reliability_Engineering_Snapshot A monthly illustrated collection of actual failure analysis case studies in the fields of corrosion, lubrication, machine design, material properties, people, and vibration. |
| Reliability_Standards_and_Handbooks Contains a list of standards with their number and description. |
| Reliability_Tools Details a range of prediction and modelling programs. |
| Reliability¨Magazine A trade journal dedicated specifically to machinery reliability, the predictive maintenance industry, root cause failure analysis, reliability centered maintenance, and CMMS. |
| Reliabilityweb_com Comprehensive site containing news, reviews, directories of products and services, and related information of interest to end users and suppliers of industrial plant and machinery reliability systems |
| Relibility_Enhancment_Methodology_and_Modelling REMM, a research project investigating methods and models for enhancing aircraft electronics reliability. |
| Rome_Laboratory_Reliability_Engineer\'s_Toolkit Engineer's toolkit. Includes background information. |
| Safety-Critical_Systems_Club_/_Software_Reliability_&_Metrics_Club Non-profit organisation seeking to raise awareness and facilitate technology transfer in the field. Based in the UK. |
| SAPHIRE Risk and Safety Users Group. A low-cost probabilistic risk, safety, and reliability tool. |
| Society_for_Maintenance_&_Reliability_Professionals A not-for-profit corporation formed to network those in the maintenance profession. |
| Society_of_Reliability_Engineers_(SRE) resource providing education, social contact, and insight to foster understanding of reliability, maintainability, and life testing. |
| Statistical_Reliability A course dealing with the probability and statistics useful in reliability engineering. Includes course notes, a syllabus, plus related links. |
| Statistics_533 Reliability course (in the statistics department) at Iowa State University. |
Robert Fradkin Adjunct Professor of ClassicsDepartment of Classics2407 Marie Mount HallUniversity of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742301-405-2013 Teacher of Latin, Russian, FrenchAtholton High School6520 Freetown Rd.Columbia, MD 21044410-313-7065 Email: rfradkin "at" umd "dot" edu (Input standard symbols in place of "words") Résumé LatinLanguage and Classical Linguistics Evolutionof Alphabets RussianLanguage and Slavic Linguistics HebrewLanguage and Semitic Linguistics DutchLanguage and Germanic Linguistics GeneralLinguisticsQuestions and/or comments should be sentto Robert Fradkin. Last modified May 12, 2006.