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Eponyms or Descriptive Equivalent Terms? The Question of Scientific Accuracy in Medical Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A large part of medical lexicon is made up of eponymous terms. These have often been an object of debate and disagreement among specialists and linguists.
Cappuzzo, B.
core  

‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
wiley   +1 more source

History of West Syndrome

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 2002
Historical details about Dr West, his son, James Edward West, the patient with infantile spasms, and the coining of the eponym ‘West syndrome’ are researched by pediatric neurologists and colleagues at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands; and ...
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

The mystery of the Doctor's son, or the riddle of West syndrome. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Although the eponym "West syndrome" is used widely for infantile spasms, the originators of the term and the time frame of its initial use are not well known. This article provides historical details about Dr. West, about his son who had infantile spasms,
Baram, Tallie Z   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

The immune‐related, TGA1 redox‐switch: to be or not to be?

open access: yes, 2020
New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Yuan Li, Gary J. Loake
wiley   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

The Campaigns of the First Three Years of Tukultī-Ninurta’s I (1242-1206 BC)

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The chronology of events during the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I does not stand out with particular accuracy, which often sparked controversy. In particular, it refers to the irregular sequence of events in the king's records.
Ruslan Tsakanyan
doaj   +6 more sources

Diplomaten in Assur-Alltag oder Anzeichen für eine internationale krise? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The middle assyrian archive of Tall Huwera/Harbe in North East Syria, concerning the administration of a provincial town that served as the seat of a district governor as well as a highway station, provides rich evidence of messengers and foreign ...
Jakob, Stefan
core   +2 more sources

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