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You name it--memory and delay govern first name dynamics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The adoption and abandonment of first names through time is a fascinating phenomenon that may shed light on social dynamics and the forces that determine cultural taste in general.
David A Kessler +3 more
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Name Transmission Relationships in England (1838-2014)
Names, 2023 Baby names are often used to model the mechanisms of cultural evolution, as they are not given arbitrarily but on the basis of their perceived associations.
Stephen J. Bush
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Towards the History of Spanish Compound Anthroponyms with the Preposition de (Based on the 16th Century Baptismal Registers of Seville’s Parishes) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper focuses on Spanish compound names with the preposition de (e.g. María de la Concepción, Juan de los Santos, Catalina de Santiago, etc.) retrieved from baptismal books in Seville prior to 1600.
José-Javier Rodríguez-Toro
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The Name – Identification Element of a Natural Person
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law, 2022 Identifying people by name is as old as the emergence of social life. So, since ancient times, there has been a need for any person to have a name, a need determined by a certain social requirement, namely, the need to identify people within society.
Elena-Melania Florescu
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Name-giving motives in Lithuania and Brazil
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021 TThis research aims at analysing and comparing the motives for choosing the first name of a child in Lithuania and Brazil in the years 1958-2016. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods and applying social and cultural approaches, it reveals ...
Karolina Butkuvienė +3 more
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Using signals from GLONASS/GPS navigation systems to correct the readings of a digital magnetic compass [PDF]
ITM Web of Conferences, 2019 The article describes the results obtained from research, manufacture and quality improvement of an inexpensive digital magnetic compass system. Given that the receivers of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) signals are not expensive, in ...
Vu Xuan Hau +2 more
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Can first or last name uniqueness help to identify diaspora researchers from any country?
Journal of Data and Information Science, 2023 Diaspora researchers work in one country but have ancestral origins in another, either through moves during a research career (mobile diaspora researchers) or by starting research in the target country (embedded diaspora researchers).
Thelwall Mike
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Element Sequence in the Name Formula in Russian Tradition [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 he purpose of the article is to identify historical and ideological implications of the shift from the traditional Russian sequence: name — middle name — surname to an inverted one: surname — name — middle name.
Albert K. Baiburin
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Terms of address in the Pubian dialect of Lampung (Indonesia)
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019 One of Lampung (Sumatra, Indonesia) sub-ethnic groups, the Pubian Lampung people, has unique and varied terms of address equipped with a set of rules to use them.
Iing Sunarti +3 more
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