Folklore y lingüística

Y - Randomization – A Useful Tool in QSAR Validation , or Folklore ?

Several variants of randomization procedures were compared as a tool in validation of multilinear regression (MLR) QSAR equations that are obtained by descriptor selection. Y-randomization, a method formerly said to be probably the most powerful validation procedure, was found to be overoptimistic. The statistical significance of a new MLR QSAR model should be checked by comparing its measure o...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...

Folklore and Medicine

Your education heretofore has been focused on the horizon which opens for the first time to-day, to fit you to receive training as entered apprentices of the mystery and art of clinical medicine and surgery. From now on you will come into contact with the raw material of our craft, the sick and suffering who seek relief within the walls of this hospital. It will be your duty and inestimable pri...

Sleep paralysis and folklore

Sleep paralysis is a relatively new term to describe what for hundreds of years many believed to be a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept. The first clinical description of sleep paralysis was published in 1664 in a Dutch physician's case histories, where it was referred to as, 'Incubus or the Night-Mare [sic]'. In 1977, it was discovered more than 100 p...