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Did you call me? : 5-month-old infants own name guides their attention [PDF]
An infant's own name is a unique social cue. Infants are sensitive to their own name by 4 months of age, but whether they use their names as a social cue is unknown.
Parise, Eugenio +2 more
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SPHERE
Due to the economic instability the problem of development of mechanisms of integration of state and private business became even more important. The paper presents the evaluation of the effectiveness of public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Natal'ya V Gorodnova, Andrey E. Berezin
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Etude socio-onomastique des modèles dénominatifs : références prénominatives en Algérie
Our contribution focuses on anthroponymy and on one of the contemporary onomastic usages, that is marketing. It proposes to study the actual linguistic practices through a form of anthroponymic expression posted in the urban space : the first name.
Yasmina Baghbagha
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What's in a Name? First Names as Facial Attributes [PDF]
This paper introduces a new idea in describing people using their first names, i.e., the name assigned at birth. We show that describing people in terms of similarity to a vector of possible first names is a powerful description of facial appearance that can be used for face naming and building facial attribute classifiers.
Huizhong Chen +2 more
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Socioeconomic Determinants of First Names [PDF]
AbstractModern naming practices in the Netherlands between 1982 and 2005 were studied on the basis of 1409 popular first names, divided into fourteen name groups determined by the common preferences of parents for the names involved. Socioeconomic variables such as family income, parents' level of education, and lifestyle indicators were analyzed in ...
Bloothooft, G., Onland, D
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Demographic Aspects of First Names [PDF]
AbstractWe introduce a list that offers information on the relation between first names and race or ethnicity. Drawing information from mortgage applications, the list includes 4,250 first names and information on their respective count and proportions across six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups.
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Main Trends in the Study of Ukrainian Surnames (Late Seventeenth – Early Twenty-First Centuries): I. The Achievements of Ukrainian Onomasticians This article analyses main trends in the study of Ukrainian surnames from the period between the late ...
Наталія [Nataliia] Богданівна [Bohdanivna] Вирста [Vyrsta] +1 more
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Data from the UK Local BMD, a volunteer project to transcribe the birth, marriage and death records of England and Wales, is a rare onomastic resource, being one of the few public datasets to contain full names.
Stephen J. Bush
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“Esa no soy Yo”: Self-Image and Name Change from the Perspective of Female Immigrants
The given name by which we call ourselves in our native language contains a series of phonetic, social, and cultural elements that determine its value in any given context.
María Cecilia Ainciburu +1 more
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The “internationalization” of first names: Gorani people in Belgrade and Germans in Vojvodina
The paper considers the social practice of giving and using first names among Gorani people in Belgrade and Germans in Vojvodina in the late 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Jadranka Đorđević-Crnobrnja +1 more
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