BACKGROUND Opinions are frequently expressed in the medical literature whether patients should be addressed by their first or last names, but few supportive data are available. Our objective was to determine the preferences of a sample of ambulatory patients to guide physicians and other professionals in addressing their patients appropriately. METHODS Three hundred seventy-five patients in a...

Surnames, although widely used, are not obligatory in many parts of the world. This communication describes the hurdles and humiliations suffered by Oriental and South Indian authors who do not have a surname. A novel solution to the problem of author surnames is also proposed.

Abstract This corrects the article on pages 1896-9 volume 11 number 5, PMID: 25361711. 1. The last name of first author Sharifiaghdas was misspelled as Shaririaghdas. 2. The authors would like to acknowledge that the provided figures were wrong. Therefore the figures of the article should be replaced by the right figures. The Authors apologize for this mistake and its repercussions.The last nam...

In the paper a short biography of Stefan Banach, a few stories about Banach and the Scottish Café and some results that nowadays are named by Banach’s surname are presented.

A growing body of evidence suggests that information regarding the past self and other people is processed similarly. However, there is not much evidence supporting this notion at the neural level. In this event-related potential (ERP) study we examined processing of one's own marital and family name (i.e., present and past self-name, respectively) and images of present and past self-face in co...

The family name distribution in Korea is investigated in comparison with previous studies in other countries. In Korea, both the family name and its birthplace, where the ancestor of the family originated, are commonly used to distinguish one family name from the others. The family name distributions with and without the information of the regional origins are analyzed by using different data s...

The paper will analyze some linguistic, primarily onomastic evidence of still existent or extinct crafts and occupations within the framework of the former social structure. Many one time crafts became extinct in the course of time, but traces of their former diffusion and importance can be reconstructed from their onomastic, primarily, anthroponomastic reflections. Similar surnames motivated b...