Abstract The categorisation of minerals and their related names, such as synonyms, obsolete or historical varieties mixtures, is an asset for designing interoperable consistent mineralogical data warehouse. An enormous amount this data, provided by mindat.org other resources, was reviewed analysed during the research. analysis indicates existence several categories (1) abstract titles designati...

Natural language descriptions of videos provide a potentially rich and vast source of supervision. However, the highly-varied nature of language presents a major barrier to its effective use. What is needed are models that can reason over uncertainty over both videos and text. In this paper, we tackle the core task of person naming: assigning names of people in the cast to human tracks in TV vi...

Our aim was to analyse the impact of the characteristics of words used in spelling programmes and the nature of instructional guidelines on the evolution from grapho-perceptive writing to phonetic writing in preschool children. The participants were 50 5-year-old children, divided in five equivalent groups in intelligence, phonological skills and spelling. All the children knew the vowels and t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the acceptability to patients of the use of patients' first names by doctors and doctors' first names by patients in general practice. DESIGN An administered questionnaire survey. SETTING 5 General practices in Lothian. PATIENTS 475 Patients consulting 30 general practitioners. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Response by patients to questionnaire on attitude to use of first nam...

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...

objective: the present study is based on an ethnobotanical research project conducted in hormozgan province that is located in south of iran, bordering waters of the persian gulf and oman sea. this survey was carried out in order to recover the ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal knowledge of the residents of this province. they are using medicinal and functional plants for treating or preventing...