Middle Name Research Articles

Queen Anne's Lace, and: Conte de Fées, and: Scheria, and: Amor Veneris, and: Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre

Queen Anne's Lace, and: Conte de Fées, and: Scheria, and: Amor Veneris, and: Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre Vanessa Stauffer (bio) Queen Anne's Lace In the meadow across the road from the houseshe's growing up in, the girl wadeship-deep in weeds, her unhemmed cuffsstained green in damp dusk. Each fiber makesa wick or a stem, a vein drinking upwater or flame from the softocean smoking mist between straight stalks,the corn neatly rowed as the lines in the booksshe spends whole days in, home aloneall summer in the kingdom ofher mind. Nights she is afraid of the skyhollowed cobalt at its center, pale horizonfading fast, like the bottom dropping outof the carnival ride, the spinning drumpressing her into its curve, the metalhot against her back, her brother laughingwhen she cries. Sometimes her mother makes herzip up a dress from the hand-me-down bagher cousins left behind, poses herin the meadow with a flower from the garden—elegant flag of iris, a tulip's perfect cup—so she can take a photograph. When the printsarrive in their envelope, the girl's smilelooks uncertain, her head turned to follow the cameralike wild daisies swiveled on their stems,tracking the movement of the sunacross a cloudless sky. She looks back & seesthe television's underwater glowlapping the living room windows, imagines herfather sunk in his chair. Her mother slamsthe screen door, keys gripped in a fist [End Page 133] on her way to work, the night shiftstocking shelves inside the grocery store'sfluorescent midnight. The girl picks a cool bouquetshe'll leave by the road: purple poms ofclover the rabbits love, pale petals ofcornflower, starched & papery atop the stem'shaphazard joints. She's gotten tall this year.Soon the dresses won't fit & she'll grow intoanother year of cast-offs, starting junior highin someone else's clothes. The first starssalt the sky. She thinks she seesMars like a punched hole, red-orange as her handcupped to cover a flashlight's lens, Venusdrifting distant, cool as a gem. She picksthe one that shares her middle name,watches how they sway as if adrift,luminous against the vagueleftover light. It could be hemlock,the white wheel spinning ancientprisoners into endless nightwere it not for the shining bead the blossomscircle like a central star—blue as bloodin want of breath, drawn back to the heart. [End Page 134] Conte de Fées —Paris, 1881 Mother says I may not draw the menMonsieur has hired to pose.Also I must wear sleeves and skirtswhich cling like the strips of damp muslinwe wind our figures with, the clay kept wetwhen we go home. Then she scoldsmy ruined hems, red-stained and stiffwith dust, my hands stripped dryand cracked. She says None will wantto place a ring on a hand like that.Back home I would not listen but escapeddown Rue Pignon to the woodswhere boulders spill in malformed shapesit's said the devil made. I learnedfrom my first master it's just sandstonefused from the silt of ancient seasand worked upon as all things are:by time and accident, the wind's blond brush,rain the rasp I use to finda figure in a quarried stone.Master has gone to Rome so now MonsieurRodin will oversee our atelier. He sayssurely École des Beaux Arts would have meif I weren't a girl. I know his figureL'Age d'airain—the soldier empty-handed,caught like a breath in the throat.I'd never kissed a man until last night.The others had gone back to their flatsas evening stole down the Seine. Monsieurkept thumbing through my sheets,setting aside the sketches he thoughtshowed immaturity. When I was youngMother once found the figures I'd hiddenand cursed when she saw what they were:nudes I had...

Детермінантний аналіз синонімічного ряду назв медиків у середньоанглійській мові.

The aim of the research is to reconstruct the development of the semantic subsystem of names of physicians in Middle English by establishing the specifics of the support of the internal determinant of the semantic group of occupational terms in Middle English at the level of the series of synonyms by performing the tasks of the analysis of the etymological composition of their word-stems, functional differentiation and chronological stratification of their first written attestations. The subject of the study is the etymological composition, functional differentiation and chronological stratification of the Middle English names of physicians. The object of the study is the semantic group of occupational terms, in particular the series of synonyms – the names of physicians (common nouns and proper names) as a subsystem of the semantic sub-group of the names of persons engaged in the intellectual activity.

Middle English names of hunters: the determinant analysis of the series of synonyms

Middle English names of hunters: the determinant analysis of the series of synonyms

The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury

Reviewed by: The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury Natalie Berglind Khoury, Jessica The Mystwick School of Musicraft; illus. by Federica Frenna. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 [368p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-328-62563-2 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-358-16444-9 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-7 Twelve-year-old Amelia Jones' only wish is to go to the Mystwick School of Musicraft to become a Maestro like her deceased mother; while normal people can play instruments to do minor magic, Maestros perform in orchestras to fend off natural disasters. Though Amelia practices her flute every day, she botches her audition performance, which is why it's so surprising that she gets an acceptance letter. Devastatingly, it turns out there's been a mix-up: a masterful piano player, also named Amelia Jones, was accepted to the school but passed away, which rerouted the letter to a different Amelia Jones. Amelia strives to prove she's worthy of staying, but the other kids are much more talented, and a ghost appears intermittently and messes with her performance in class—a spirit her bitter roommate, the former Amelia Jones' best friend, insists is the original Amelia. As a whole slew of ghosts attacks the school, Amelia realizes she has to cooperate with her discordant classmates to solve the problem. Khoury's supernatural story is full of witty and comedic moments, from chapter titles bearing music puns ("Dead Girls Tarantella No Tales") to a side character who consistently guesses Amelia's middle name wrong ("Amelia Cranberry Jones!"), and the black and white art brings its own playful note. The magical system is creatively designed and influenced by different tunes ("The Itsy Bitsy Spider" is a drying spell, for example), and kids learning to play instruments will get a kick out of seeing a fellow instrument-player struggle with auditions and use her talent to create literal magic. At the core, this is a feel-good story about believing in one's ability, musical or otherwise. [End Page 172] Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Correction to: An update on carnosine and anserine research.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The author "Shahid Baba" would like to include the middle name "P" in the online published article.

Correction to “Delta Doping in HgCdTe-Based Unipolar Barrier Photodetectors” [Oct 18 4340-4345

In [1] , the middle name for the second author was incorrectly stated as “Armando” instead of “Antonio.” The correct full name for the second author should read: “Gilberto Antonio Umana-Membreno.” The correction also applies to the second author name in biographical note at the end of the article.

Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. "Ding" Darling by Richard Samuel West

Reviewed by: Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. "Ding" Darling by Richard Samuel West Paul V. Murphy Richard Samuel West, Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. "Ding" Darling. Columbus: The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, 2012. 194 pp. $24.95. Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling began his nearly fifty-year career as a cartoonist in 1900 when he joined the staff of the Sioux City Journal. Newspapers of that era were in transition, still at the center of partisan politics but also part of an emerging mass media that played an important role in integrating the towns and cities scattered across the country into a national popular culture. Darling contributed to both projects. He gained a national following, eventually earning two Pulitzer Prizes, while advancing a progressive political vision fostered by two prominent and gifted [End Page 179] Republican newspapermen. The first of these, George Perkins, initially hired Darling for the Journal. Gardner Cowles later lured him to the Des Moines Register and Leader in 1906, where Darling spent the bulk of his career. Darling perfected the gentle but biting single-panel, front-page political cartoon, using homey and charming images to bring public figures down to size and to translate complex issues into "everyday terms that anyone could understand" (5). He eventually gained a national audience through syndication by the New York Tribune. In collaboration with The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Richard Samuel West has produced a handsome, large-format, and copiously illustrated volume attesting to Darling's abilities. West pairs a knowledgeable, well-illustrated eighty-page survey of Darling's art and politics with a selection of over one hundred cartoons, presented on a scale that almost matches the six-by-eight-inch format in which many originally appeared. Read together, they give a glimpse of a political world lost. Born in the tiny lakeshore village of Norwood (from which his middle name derived) in the upper stretches of Michigan's lower peninsula in 1876, Darling moved throughout Michigan and Indiana before his family settled in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1886. He was an energetic, irreverent youth, expelled from Yankton College in South Dakota for commandeering the president's horse and buggy and suspended from his next school, Beloit College, due to poor attendance and scholarship. At Beloit, he drew satirical drawings of his professors, signing himself as Ding, from "D'ing", a contraction that had become a habit with his father and brother. "Ding" Darling became the name by which he was known. He first attracted national notice as a cartoonist in 1907 with a fine panel featuring President Theodore Roosevelt sitting at the end of a makeshift diving board over a rural stream, splashing idly in the water, unsure what to do, while seven would-be rivals for the 1908 Republican presidential nomination—from William Howard Taft to Robert La Follette—lined up impatiently behind him. Darling exemplified a type of progressivism almost unknown in the Republican Party of today. He was skeptical of trusts and the business selfishness they embodied, optimistic regarding the regulatory power of government (to end child labor and regulate railroads, for example), and passionate in his belief in international government to prevent the scourge of war. He idolized Herbert Hoover and generally criticized Democratic policies, but he supported Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt when they advanced progressive aims, particularly in foreign affairs. He often [End Page 180] assumed the stance of a gentle prophet, skewering the inattentiveness, emotionalism, irrationality, hypocrisy, and alarmism that led to unjust and destructive policies. He hailed, instead, the enlightened, forward-thinking, disinterested, and fraternal impulses that promised a better future. In one wartime fantasy, Darling depicted a businessman and workingman becoming solicitous brothers in the trenches despite their mutual hatred in peacetime. Darling wrote a remarkably sober-minded assessment of the Soviet Union after a brief visit there in 1931. It revealed much about his temperament, condemning authoritarianism but issuing a biting warning as well. "If you are … afflicted with conservatism, one dose of Russia will make you well," Darling wrote. "Every American ought to make a trip to Russia at least once...

The use of information technologies to predict and diagnose the psychological trauma of servicemen – combatants

Based on the analysis of existing developments in the field of automation of psychological and psycho-physiological testing procedures, as well as own empirical studies of combat psychological trauma of servicemen – combatants, the authors within the scientific research “Development of Preventive Program of Post-Trauma Stress Disorders of Servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine”, have offered own approach to the creation of the complex of automated methods for determining resistance to psychological trauma by the combat experience, presence / absence of the features of post-traumatic stress disorder, presence / absence of psychological trauma of the combat experience
 The specified automated complex allows to get test results for each respondent in each method and to make complete characteristics of his mental health with the consequent possibility to convert textual information into a Microsoft Word document. Such a psycho-diagnostic testing document (profile) contains information about the respondent (last name, first name, middle name, group number), as well as numerous results of passing each psychological test (title, time, date, basic indicators) and their interpretation. If any test is failed, a record on its failure is made in the profile. While passing the main tests of the complex there is information in the profile about the type of psychological trauma of a person and the description.
 The use of the automated psycho-diagnostic complex “Combat Psychological Trauma of Individuals” improves the accuracy, efficiency and effectiveness of the psychological work of psychologists of military units of the National Guard of Ukraine in assessing the level of psychological trauma by the combat experience. The practical component of the automated psycho-diagnostic complex is the formation of recommendations based on the obtained test results, with the determination of the possibility of servicemen further engagement to participate in combat operations.

Locating similar names through locality sensitive hashing and graph theory

Locality Sensitive Hashing is a known technique applied for finding similar texts and it has been applied to plagiarism detection, mirror pages identification or to identify the original source of a news article. In this paper we will show how can Locality Sensitive Hashing be applied to identify misspelled people names (name, middle name and last name) or near duplicates. In our case, and due to the short length of the texts, using two similarity functions (the Jaccard Similarity and the Full Damerau-Levenshtein Distance) for measuring the similarity of the names allowed us to obtain better results than using a single one. All the experimental work was made using the statistical software R and the libraries: textreuse and stringdist.

Women have greater odds for rejection of U.S. patent applications

Women inventors are more likely to have U.S. patent applications rejected than men are, a recent study finds (Nat. Biotechnol., 2018, DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4120). A team from the Yale School of Management analyzed 2.7 million U.S. patent applications from 2001 through 2014 and used the first names of applicants to determine their probable gender. Women with a common female first name such as Mary had an 8.2% lower probability of getting their patent applications accepted. Women with rare first names that are strongly associated with gender but unknown to many people in the U.S. had an acceptance rate 2.8% lower than men, the study says. Policy-makers, companies, and inventors should take note of these results and consider possible changes to eliminate gender disparities, the authors say. For example, they suggest altering the U.S. patent system to require only initials for the first and middle names of applicants, thus keeping their gender

Correction to: Radioiodine ablation with 1,850 MBq in association with rhTSH in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

Unfortunately, the fourth author's middle name was missed out in the original publication of this article. The complete correct name should read as follows.

Correction to: Anal canal squamous cell cancer: are surgical alternatives to chemoradiation just as effective?

One of the author's middle name of this article was incorrectly published as "Emmanouil E. Pappou." This is now presented correctly in this article as "Emmanouil P. Pappou."

We Look Deep Down and Yet Believe

We Look Deep Down and Yet Believe Caitlin Smith Oyekole Click for larger view View full resolution Caitlin Smith Oyekole. Photo courtesy of Oyekola Oyekole. At the Eleventh Annual International Melville Society Conference, I saw a new interest in the kinds of community that spring up around Melville's works. The "Looking for Melville" event at the British Library highlighted three different kinds of ongoing engagement with Melville. John Bryant's biography, which focused on transatlantic slavery's impact on [End Page 111] Melville's life and literature, demonstrated the constant discovery of Melville's contexts. Caroline Hack, Philip Hoare, Shelley Piasecka, and Michael Hall showed how Melville's concepts, characters, and literary style continue reverberating through artistic production, inspiring new adaptations, art forms, and ways to re-envision and represent the world. David Shaerf's documentary, Call Us Ishmael, particularly struck me. Shaerf focuses on collective readings of the novel, like New Bedford's annual Moby-Dick Marathon, and the communities they create. Call Us Ishmael emphasizes what I heard repeated from all quarters: Melville's work attracts an unusually diverse audience, a fitting parallel, perhaps, to the racial, religious, and cultural diversity of the Pequod's crew. Reminiscing on the Moby-Dick Marathon at the conference, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards told me, "There is no 'type' of Moby-Dick reader." This remark instantly brought to mind a 2015 thinkpiece by the Australian writer Mikaella Clements, entitled "Moby-Dick and Me: A Teenaged Love Story" (The Toast, 12 November 2015, <http://the-toast.net/2015/11/12/moby-dickand-me-a-teenaged-love-story>). Explaining her decision to add a second middle name, "Melville," Clements writes that her teenaged self—queer, displaced, deeply unhappy—identified with first Ahab, then Melville himself: "I felt Melville could have written [Moby-Dick] about me." And then she describes becoming not just a reader of Moby-Dick but a Melvillean: "I met Melville, and he already knew me inside and out sympathized with me … it is always comforting to meet someone that is made of the same stuff as you." Moving from text to author, Clements joins the larger, trans-institutional community organized around Melville's contexts, literary works, and life. This community caught my interest, not just in terms of its productions (new artwork, scholarship, museums, biographies) or organizational forms (MobyDick marathons, internet forums, the Melville Society), but how it functions as a community. What allows this community to hang together in its diversity? Where does it derive norms of conduct? And how does it relate to newcomers and outsiders? I am particularly interested in the last question because the Melville Society international conferences stand apart in my knowledge and in that of many of my colleagues as a kind of exemplary intellectual community. "The Melvil-leans are very convivial," a friend told me, before my attendance at my first Melville Society conference in 2015, "I can't recommend a better experience for your first presentation." And indeed my experience during both conferences has been overwhelmingly positive. I came to the 2015 conference as a first-year PhD student presenting to senior scholars, and I received extensive feedback, welcome, and encouragement. The Melville Society's conviviality shone, as it did again this summer: discussing the future of religion and literature over [End Page 112] drinks, chatting about Melville's reception in Japan on the bus to Oxford, or learning about the Society's history while touring London. Convivial—living together—was the adjective that best describes the conference. I suspect I am particularly attenuated to the small gestures of inclusion, honesty, or acceptance because intersectional feminism provides terminology (the microaggression) to name and contextualize nuances of harm and exclusion. But there are no terms for the small welcomes, the thousand ways that those older, more well-established, and more powerful can show inclusion to the newcomer. Of course, the question "why does the Melville Society work so well as an intellectual community" is easily answered by looking at the exemplary individuals that compose it. But I am not satisfied in treating as pure coincidence the existence of a healthy intellectual community—the Melville Society—centered around Melville's life; the diversity of...

Property Clustering in Linked Data

Properties are used to describe entities, and a part of them are likely to be clustered together to constitute an aspect. For example, first name, middle name and last name are usually gathered to describe a person's name. However, existing automated approaches to property clustering remain far from satisfactory for an open domain like Linked Data. In this paper, the authors firstly investigated the relatedness between properties using 13 different measures. Then, they employed seven clustering algorithms and two combination methods for property clustering. Based on a sample set of Linked Data, the authors empirically studied property clustering in Linked Data and found that a proper combination of different measures and clustering algorithms gave rise to the best result. Additionally, they reported how property clustering can improve user experience in an entity browsing system.

MIDDLE ENGLISH NAMES OF PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINERS: ETYMOLOGY AND ASPECTS OF USAGE

The relevance of the research is due to the need for a comprehensive study of the Middle English vocabulary, inparticular of occupational terms as its subsystem. The article is devoted to the general purpose of the study ofthe etymological composition and functional differentiation of the thematic group of Middle English names ofprofessional entertainers. The investigation of the functional differentiation of the Middle English occupationalterms is based on the principles of the historical approach. Middle English occupational terms are distributed intotwo classes – common names (in their classifying function) and proper names, especially family names (in thefunction of identification of the person as the component additional to the personal name in the personal nominationformulas). Within each etymological group of vocabulary we distribute the lexical material according to thefunctional principle and distinguish three groups of occupational terms: those functioning exclusively as commonnouns; those functioning exclusively as proper names in the personal nomination formulas; those functioning ascommon names as well as proper names. According to the functional principle of the distribution of thevocabulary and on quantitative calculations we draw the conclusions about the degree of sustainabilityof the usage of borrowed occupational terms: we consider English words, loan-blends as well as theassimilated borrowings that functioned as the common names and proper names to be the wordswith the established (settled) usage; we consider English words, loan-blends and the assimilatedborrowings that existed only as the proper name in the nomination formula to be the words with theunsettled usage; we consider English words, loan-blends and the assimilated borrowings that existedexclusively as common names to be the words with the restricted usage. It was found out that functionaldifferentiation of the vocabulary is different in English and borrowed occupational terms. Dataobtained in the study under review are valuable as the constituent part of the comprehensive study of theorigin and usage of Middle English vocabulary.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.31.18644

Correction to: Molecular imaging of advanced thyroid cancer: iodinated radiotracers and beyond.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The middle name of the author Steven B. Rowe is incorrect. The corrected name is Steven P. Rowe.

The administration of blood components: a British Society for Haematology Guideline.

The administration of blood components: a British Society for Haematology Guideline.

The Names of Herdsmen in the Middle English Language: Historical Development of the Lexical-Thematic Group

The article is devoted to the general purpose of the study of the etymological composition, functional differentiation and chronological stratification of the thematic group of Middle English names of farm-workers (herdsmen). Middle English occupational terms are distributed into two classes – common names (in their nominating function) and proper names, especially family names (in the function of identification of the person as the component additional to the personal name in the personal nomination formula). Within each etymological group of vocabulary we distribute the lexical material according to the functional principle and distinguish three groups of occupational terms: those functioning as common nouns as well as the proper names; those functioning exclusively as the proper names in the personal nomination formulas; those functioning exclusively as common names. It was found out that the thematic subgroup of Middle English names of herdsmen is represented by 157 words comprising 6.5 % of the total number of Middle English occupational terms; 90 % of them are English words (24 % of them are loan-blends), 10 % are loan-words. Functional differentiation of the vocabulary is different in English and borrowed occupational terms. Chronological stratification of the lexical-thematic subgroup indicates their predominance in the thirteenth century (42 %), as well as in the XIVth century (54 %). Data obtaiOED in the study under review are valuable as the constituent part of the comprehensive study of the etymology and usage of the Middle English vocabulary. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.30.17556

The Five Stages of Grief.

carefully setting the table for two. I passed you the toast? you sat there. I passed you the paper?you hid behind it. Anger seemed more familiar. I burned the toast, snatched the paper and read the headlines myself. But they mentioned your departure, and so I moved on to Bargaining. What could I exchange for you? The silence after storms? My typing fingers? Before I could decide, Depression came puffing up, a poor relation its suitcase tied together with string. In the suitcase were bandages for the eyes and bottles of sleep. I slid all the way down the stairs feeling nothing. And all the time Hope flashed on and off in defective neon. Hope was a signpost pointing straight in the air. Hope was my uncle's middle name, he died of it.

The effects of name and religious priming on ratings of a well-known political figure, President Barack Obama.

Priming with race-typed names and religious concepts have been shown to activate stereotypes and increase prejudice towards out-groups. We examined the effects of name and religious word priming on views of a specific and well-known person, President Barack Obama. We predicted that politically conservative participants primed with President Obama’s middle name (Hussein) would rate him more negatively and be more likely to view him as a Muslim than those not shown his middle name. We also examined whether conservatives primed with concrete religious words would rate President Obama more negatively and be more likely to view him as Muslim than those primed with other word types. Furthermore, we predicted that those who mis-identify President Obama as Muslim would rate him more negatively than would those who view him as Christian. The results provided mixed support for these hypotheses. Conservatives primed with President Obama’s middle name rated him significantly more negatively than did those in the control condition. This effect was not found for politically liberal or moderate participants. Name priming did not significantly affect views of President Obama’s religious affiliation. Although not statistically significant, conservatives primed with abstract religious words tended to rate President Obama more negatively than did those primed with other word types. Religious word priming significantly influenced views of President Obama’s religious affiliation; interestingly, participants primed with abstract religious words were more likely to think President Obama is Muslim than were those primed with religious agent or non-religious words. As predicted, participants who thought president Obama was Muslim rated him significantly more negatively than did those who thought he was Christian. Overall, our results provide some evidence that ethnic name and religious word priming can significantly influence opinions, even with a well-known and specific person.