The enclosed is what we hope will be accepted as a list of official formal host names and nicknames. As no other subject worked on by the NWG has generated so much comment, it is worthwhile to review briefly how this list came into being. The need for some standard set of names recognized by NCP's and Telnets and usable on hardcopy to designate a persons affiliation had been recognized for some...

Lysophospholipids encompass a diverse range of small, membrane-derived phospholipids that act as extracellular signals. The signalling properties are mediated by 7-transmembrane GPCRs, constituent members of which have continued to be identified after their initial discovery in the mid-1990s. Here we briefly review this class of receptors, with a particular emphasis on their protein and gene no...

here are about 220 types of cannabis mentioned on the websites of Canada’s 13 licensed medical marijuana growers. Several growers name their products after their companies. Others use names that resemble pharmaceutical names or allude to therapeutic benefits. Many growers, however, are using recreational names. They might want to reconsider that choice if they want the medical community to take...

This study investigated name changes of women authors to determine how they were represented in indexes and cited references, and identify problem areas. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether or not indexing services were using authority control and how this influenced the search results. The works of eight library science authors who had published under multiple names wer...

In 1811, Napoleon (whose armies occupied The Netherlands) ruled that all Dutch citizens should have their family names registered. At the time of Napoleon's decree, family names were used only by members of the upper class. Thus, this decidedly unpopular decree forced much of the Dutch populace to invent a name for their families. To express their dissatisfaction with Napoleon's ruling, some fa...

This short paper is a work in progress describing our participation in the GRID@CLEF task. The GRID@CLEF task is intended to capture in XML form the intermediate results of the text processing phases of the indexing process used by IR systems. Our approach was to create a new instrumented version of the indexing program used with the Cheshire II system. Thanks to an extension by the organizers,...

A color scale was designed with an approach that combined both human visual response to color and physical properties of color. The design was initiated with a subjective evaluation of a 16 step color scale running from dark blue via magenta, orange to light yellow. The CIELUV chromaticity diagram was employed to verify the subjectively generated scale and to ensure that the differences in hue ...

This data article contains the statistical analysis of Igbo personal names and a sample of randomly selected of such names. This was presented as the following: 1). A simple random sampling of some Igbo personal names and their respective gender associated with each name. 2). The distribution of the vowels, consonants and letters of alphabets of the personal names. 3). The distribution of name ...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the patterns of the product names used in Thai economic news and to find clues that could be used to identify the product names’ boundaries and their categories. It is found that the patterns of Thai product names are quite varied. Thirty two patterns are found in this study. While some clues like collocation and the context of names can be used for id...