 Names
"Names" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.
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D009275
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| MeSH Number(s) |
L01.143.506.598.400.556
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Names" by people in this website by year, and whether "Names" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Names" by people in Profiles.
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Phillips BM, Piasta SB, Anthony JL, Lonigan CJ, Francis DJ. IRTs of the ABCs: children's letter name acquisition. J Sch Psychol. 2012 Aug; 50(4):461-81.
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Simos PG, Rezaie R, Fletcher JM, Juranek J, Passaro AD, Li Z, Cirino PT, Papanicolaou AC. Functional disruption of the brain mechanism for reading: effects of comorbidity and task difficulty among children with developmental learning problems. Neuropsychology. 2011 Jul; 25(4):520-34.
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Weiss KM, Chakraborty R, Buchanan AV, Schwartz RJ. Mutations in names: implications for assessing identity by descent from historical records. Hum Biol. 1983 May; 55(2):313-22.
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