His Name Was Aylan

'I'll never forget what's-his-name'?

Number 9 Most of us have a special respect for people with super-memories. Ancient Chinese schoIars were often ranked and esteemed according to the number of idiographs they memorized. Talmudic scholars were respected for memorizing extensive passages of religious works. I have known people who seem to have a " photographic " memory, although scientists believe that no such thing exists. 1 When...

"I Cannot Tell What the Dickens His Name Is": Name Disambiguation in Institutional Repositories

INTRODUCTION Authors who publish under more than one form of their name, multiple authors with the same name, and incomplete author information can all create challenges for repository staff when entering metadata. Unless properly addressed, these variations and duplications can result in search and retrieval errors for users. Name disambiguation, the process of identifying, merging, and making...

Molten gold was poured down his throat until his bowels burst.

Chong Hai Tay and the Syndrome Which Bears His Name

Tay’s syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by icthyosiform erythroderma, trichothiodystrophy, brittle hair and nails, intellectual impairment, decreased fertility, short stature, progerialike facies and photosensitivity [1-3]. There is no specific treatment for this genetic disorder. However, some authors reported control of ichthyosis in a case of Tay’s syndrome by topi...

"While the balance of his mind was disturbed".