Whitman Naked?: A Response

Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)

Charles Otis Whitman [5] was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields of study to which he made significant contributions were: embryology [6]; morphology [7], or the form of living organisms and the relationships between their structures; natural history [8]; and behavior. Whitman served as director of several p...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Naked suicide.

Suicide attempts and completions by individuals while naked remain unexplored, both by clinicians and in the professional literature. Nakedness at the time of the incident conveys important information about an individual's mental state. Motivations for attempting or completing suicide while naked are discussed. Nakedness during a suicide attempt is presumptive evidence of high risk for suicide...

Ford Whitman Harris and the Economic Order Quantity Model

Ford Whitman Harris first presented the familiar economic order quantity (EOQ) model in a paper published in 1913. Even though Harris's original paper was disseminated widely, it apparently was unnoticed for many years before its rediscovery in 1988. During this period much confusion developed over the origin of the EOQ model. This paper explores the early literature on this model and traces th...

How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality

We introduce a new multilingual resource containing judgments about nominal compound compositionality in English, French and Portuguese. It covers 3 × 180 noun-noun and adjective-noun compounds for which we provide numerical compositionality scores for the head word, for the modifier and for the compound as a whole, along with possible paraphrases. This resource was constructed by native speake...