The order Solifugae (Arachnida) often has the word ‘spider’ (e.g. sunspider, camelspider) or ‘scorpion’ windscorpion) as main descriptor in its common names. Being neither a spider nor scorpion, we suggest ‘solifuge’, derived from scientific name of order, most neutral English vernacular for these arachnids. Southern Africa is rich solifuge diversity, which also reflected and imaginative local ...

there are different methodes for performance evaluation of economic development plans and ranking them in comparison with each other. these methods are founded on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. however, real world events are based upon uncertainty and since quantitative methods, unlike their names, are not accurate enough, they do not seem to be efficient in qualitative decision-...

The fact that natural language proper names are rigid designators is an empirical discovery about natural language. However, unlike other empirical discoveries about language made in the past few decades, it is one which has been taken to have great philosophical significance. One reason for this is that it helped simplify the formal semantical representation of ordinary modal discourse. But th...

salvia leriifolia benth. (vernacular names such as nuruozak and jobleh) is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows exclusively in south and tropical regions of khorasan and semnan provinces, i. r. iran. unlike other species of salvia genus, the chemical constituents of s. leriifolia are not well recognized. the stem oil of the plant consisted mainly both monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, while i...

Proper names (PN) have properties that are different from those of common names (CN) and as such underlie different syntactic rules. According to one of these rule, in many languages, PN, unlike CN, do not take the determiner. It has been suggested that this happens because PN move themselves from noun position to determiner position. The present study addressed the question of whether noun to ...

BACKGROUND The scientific names of plants and animals play a major role in Life Sciences as information is indexed, integrated, and searched using scientific names. The main problem with names is their ambiguous nature, because more than one name may point to the same taxon and multiple taxa may share the same name. In addition, scientific names change over time, which makes them open to variou...

This article presents a database of images of handwritten city names. The aim is to provide a standard database for Sinhala handwriting recognition research. This database contains about 15,000 images of about 500 city names of Sri Lanka. These images are obtained from the addresses of live mail so that the writers had no idea that they would be used for this purpose. Also, these are unconstrai...