Dermatologic Etymology: What's in a Name?

Whats in a Country Name - Twitter Hashtag Analysis of #singapore

Twitter as a micro-blogging platform rose to instant fame mainly due to its minimalist features that allow seamless communication between users. As the conversations grew thick and faster, a placeholder feature called as Hashtags became important as it captured the themes behind the tweets. Prior studies have investigated the conversation dynamics, interplay with other media platforms and commu...

Whats In A Name? The Automatic Recognition Of Metonymical Location Names

The correct identification of metonymies is not normally a problem for most people. For computers, things are different, however. In Natural Language Processing, metonymy recognition is therefore usually addressed with complex algorithms that rely on hundreds of labelled training examples. This paper investigates two approaches to metonymy recognition that dispense with this complexity, albeit ...

Medical Etymology

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...