Аннотация. Статья посвящена образной номинации китайских национальных блюд. Цель статьи ‒ изучение гастронимов с метафорической семантикой как фрагмента системы китайского языка. Авторы рассматривают две группы метафор: антропоморфную (Хэнань праматерь всех кухонь Поднебесной юй цай (豫菜), Сычуань царица современной китайской кулинарии чуань-цай (川菜) и онтологическую (Бритая лапша (刀削面), древесн...

If I know of a few persons of interest, how can a combination of human language technology and graph theory help me find other people similarly interesting? If I know of a few people committing a crime, how can I determine their co-conspirators? Given a set of actors deemed interesting, we seek other actors who are similarly interesting. We use a collection of communications encoded as an attri...

I am very pleased to support the nomination of Eric Fried-lander for the position of president of the American Mathematical Society. Eric has had an extremely distinguished career in our profession spanning almost four decades. Beyond a sterling research record his career is characterized by numerous and wide-ranging contributions to the mathematical enterprise. In my opinion his contributions ...

Sustainability is a critical issue for businesses today, and corporate boards nomination committees play vital role in promoting sustainable practices within organizations. Nomination Committees (NCs) have become important mechanisms what has been coined as good or governance. Stakeholders, however, different opinions on the merits of these committees. Amongst other things, there disagreement a...