Modern Urban Naming Practices: Strategic Approaches and Practical Solutions

Effective Factors on Naming Practices in Iran: Sociopolitics or Dialect?

Naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. The present article aims to take a specific look at th...

Naming Practices and Ethnic Identity in Tuva

Influencing Variables on Urban Spatial Structure in Metropolitan Regions; a Study in the Contemporary Theoretical Approaches and Practices

Modern Strategic Mine Planning

If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top...that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. (Fuller 1969, ...

RUNNING HEAD: Strategic Control in Naming Coarse Strategic Control in Word Reading: Evidence from Tempo Naming and a Computational Model

We investigate the hypothesis that lexical and rule knowledge can be strategically emphasized in word naming based on task demands, in contrast with the hypothesis that a time criterion to respond can be strategically manipulated. We devised the tempo naming to investigate the extent to which readers have precise control over response initiation in naming. Relative to baseline performance in th...