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What’s in a name? Problems, facts and controversies regarding neurological eponyms
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2016 The use of eponyms in neurology remains controversial, and important questions have been raised about their appropriateness. Different approaches have been taken, with some eponyms being excluded, others replaced, and new ones being created.
Hélio A. G. Teive +3 more
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Cultural contacts and ethnic origins in Viking Age Wales and northern Britain: the case of Albanus, Britain's first inhabitant and Scottish ancestor [PDF]
, 2015 Albanus, an eponymous ancestor for the kingdom of Alba, provides an example of the extent to which the creation of an ethnic identity was accompanied by new ideas about origins, which replaced previous accounts.
Evans, Nicholas J.
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Mixed‐methods research in medical education: Lessons from a meta‐study of methodological practice
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Mixed‐methods research (MMR) intentionally combines (variously) theories, study designs, data collection, analyses and/or syntheses associated with more than one approach to research. Despite a rich literature on the theory and practice of MMR, the authors were concerned that much MMR in medical education fell short of the state ...
Jennifer Cleland +3 more
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Names, 2013 Charles Dickens created almost a thousand fictional characters, many of whom have become synonyms for distinctive types of people or their pecu- liar traits.
Ernest L Abel
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The significance of SNODENT [PDF]
, 2005 SNODENT is a dental diagnostic vocabulary incompletely integrated in SNOMED-CT. Nevertheless, SNODENT could become the de facto standard for dental diagnostic coding.
Ceusters, Werner +3 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.Arboviral diseases spread by Culicoides biting midges have been introduced into Europe by unknown means. A possible route is the carriage of midges with cut flowers shipped to flower markets. We sampled Culicoides in and around a cut flower farm in Kenya; midges were caught in the vicinity and a greenhouse, but not where flowers are processed.
Jessica Eleanor Stokes +3 more
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New Facets of Hematolymphoid Eponymic Diseases
LymphaticsDisease eponyms can be confusing, difficult to remember, scientifically non-robust, and lacking in implications on and relationships with cell lineage, histogenesis, and pathogenesis.
Chi Sing Ng, Jilong Qin
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A Supplementary Topical Index [PDF]
, 1984 The following index has been designed to help the reader locate specific types of wordplay published in 26 issues of Word Ways from February 1978 through May 1984; it updates a similar index for 40 issues of Word Ways from February 1968 through November ...
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Terms-eponyms in scientific language
Russian Language Studies, 2013 The article is devoted to the problem of using proper names in terminological systems of such sciences as philosophy, physics, chemistry, geology, etc. The author considers terms-eponyms, or eponymic names, which of different historical period, structure
N V Novinskaya
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