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THE IMPORTANT OF TOPONYM IN THE MIDDLE OF MAPS AND IMAGERY FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
Maps without toponym is blind maps, imagery without names in top of it is hard for us to understand for which location the imagery stand for. Place names should be verified and validated to maintain its unique, the consistency and accuracy also to ...
A. P. Perdana, E. Hendrayana, W. E. Santoso   +2 more
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On the Etymology of the Place Name Brăíla [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2016
The paper addresses the etymology of the toponym Brăíla, the name of a Lower Danube town in Romania. The author provides historical and geographic data showing the antiquity of the toponym and, at the same time, its exceptional rarity resulting from its ...
Nikolay L. Sukhachev
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Religion-based Urbanization Process in Italy: Statistical Evidence from Demographic and Economic Data

, 2015
This paper analyzes some economic and demographic features of Italians living in cities containing a Saint name in their appellation (hagiotoponyms). Demographic data come from the surveys done in the 15th (2011) Italian Census, while the economic wealth
Ausloos, Marcel, Cerqueti, Roy
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Bayesian Estimation of Intensity Surfaces on the Sphere via Needlet Shrinkage and Selection [PDF]

, 2011
This paper describes an approach for Bayesian modeling in spherical datasets. Our method is based upon a recent construction called the needlet, which is a particular form of spherical wavelet with many favorable statistical and computational properties.
Scott, James G.
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The Toponym Co-Occurrence Index: A New Method to Measure the Co-Occurrence Characteristics of Toponyms

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Toponym groups are fundamental units of quantitative spatial analysis of toponyms. Using suitable technical methods to investigate the spatial distribution and co-occurrence characteristics of these groups has significant implications for identifying ...
Gaimei Wang, Fei He, Li Wang
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Representation of the Samarkand text in the linguocognitive aspect

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. The relevance of the study of the Samarkand text is due to the development of many issues related to the development of text theory and linguocognitive tradition in linguistics: the Samarkand text allows, on one toponym Samarkand, to ...
Y. V. Lipatova
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CHTopo: A Multi-Source Large-Scale Chinese Toponym Annotation Corpus

Information
Toponyms are fundamental geographical resources characterized by their spatial attributes, distinct from general nouns. While natural language provides rich toponymic data beyond traditional surveying methods, its qualitative ambiguity and inherent ...
Peng Ye, Yujin Jiang, Yadi Wang
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Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

TAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Hephyronyms in the structure of the Samarkand text

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. Recently, the peripheral categories of onomastics have become the object of onomastic research, which include the name of the proper bridge – gephyronyms. This term is not noted in the most famous Dictionary of Russian Onomastic Terminology
Ye. V. Lipatova
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