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Supporting material for "Ambivalence, Avoidance and Appeal: Alliterative Aspects of Anglo Anthroponyms"
No full textIn England and Wales, birth, marriage and death (BMD) registration began in July 1837. BMD records were obtained from the ‘UK local BMD’ project (http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local), a volunteer-led effort to transcribe the local indices of the UK BMD registers for digital preservation. Birth records spanning the complete years 1838-2014 were downloaded in September 2016 from the ‘UK local BMD’ as part of a previous study describing the application of network methods to onomastic data (Bush, et al. 2018; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30379928). These records were then updated in January 2018 for a study describing the re-use of birth records in response to child bereavement (Bush, 2019; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00277738.2018.1536186). Employing the data used for the latter, 23,468,892 birth records were parsed to generate this dataset, which explores trends in alliterative naming within England and Wales. The dataset approximates 130,000 to 230,000 records per year from 1838-1950, 25,000 to 100,000 records per year from 1951-2000, and 5000 to 15,000 records per year from 2001 to 2014. This supplementary archive represents tables and figures drawn from analysis of this dataset. These are provided in support of the paper “Ambivalence, avoidance, and appeal: alliterative aspects of Anglo anthroponyms.”
The website hosting the original UK local BMD data, www.ukbmd.org.uk, is operated by Weston Technologies Ltd (Crewe, Cheshire, UK), this company being the owner or license-holder of the intellectual property constituting the birth records. This data was used for the aforementioned studies pursuant to section 29A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, where a copyright exception permits copies to be made of lawfully accessible material in order to conduct text and data mining for non-commercial research.
This archive contains no copies of any of the original birth records and nor does it present data in a form by which they may be reconstructed. In several countries, one of the most pronounced trends in contemporary baby naming is to choose a comparatively uncommon name. Nevertheless, although a well-documented phenomenon, studies of uncommon name use are often limited to forenames. This study analyses approximately 22 million full names from England and 1 million from Wales, given between 1838 and 2014. It addresses the hypothesis that, consistent with the contemporary desire to choose an uncommon name, alliterative names – uncommon by definition – would become increasingly popular. More broadly, this study charts the long-term trends in alliterative naming over time, which in both England and Wales is consistent with a random expectation for much of the 19th century but declines significantly throughout the 20th century to its lowest use in the 1970s. This trend reverses towards the end of the 20th century, with alliterative naming becoming more common in contemporary records. These three aspects of alliterative name use are thematically referred to as ‘ambivalence’, ‘avoidance’ and ‘appeal’, and may reflect changing attitudes towards alliterative naming. The relatively renewed appeal of alliterative names towards the end of the 20th century complements previous research on the preponderance of uncommon names and the contemporary ‘need for uniqueness’ in naming
Transcriptomic diversity in resident tissue macrophages and dendritic cells of the mouse mononuclear phagocyte system
No full textThis archive comprises Supplementary Tables 1 through 6 of the Summers, et al. manuscript "Transcriptional network analysis of transcriptomic diversity in resident tissue macrophages and dendritic cells in the mouse mononuclear phagocyte system" and represents the re-analysis of >500 RNA-seq datasets, publicly available via NCBI-GEO, generated from mouse MPS cells isolated from multiple tissues. The mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) is a family of cells including progenitors, circulating blood monocytes, resident tissue macrophages and dendritic cells (DC) present in every tissue in the body. To test the relationships between markers and transcriptomic diversity in the MPS, we collected from NCBI-GEO >500 quality RNA-seq datasets generated from mouse MPS cells isolated from multiple tissues. The primary data were randomly down-sized to a depth of 10 million reads and requantified. The resulting dataset was clustered using the network analysis tool Graphia. A sample-to-sample matrix revealed that MPS populations could be separated based upon tissue of origin. Cells identified as classical DC subsets, cDC1 and cDC2, and lacking Fcgr1 (CD64), were centrally-located within the MPS cluster and no more distinct than other MPS cell types. A gene-to-gene correlation matrix identified large generic co-expression clusters associated with MPS maturation and innate immune function. Smaller co-expression clusters including the transcription factors that drive them showed higher expression within defined isolated cells, including macrophages and DC from specific tissues. They include a cluster containing Lyve1 that implies a function in endothelial cell homeostasis, a cluster of transcripts enriched in intestinal macrophages and a generic cDC cluster associated with Ccr7. However, transcripts encoding many other putative MPS subset markers including Adgre1, Itgax, Itgam, Clec9a, Cd163, Mertk, Retnla and H2-A/E (class II MHC) clustered idiosyncratically and were not correlated with underlying functions. The data provide no support for the concept of markers of M2 polarization or the specific adaptation of DC to present antigen to T cells. Co-expression of immediate early genes (e.g. Egr1, Fos, Dusp1) and inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (Tnf, Il1b, Ccl3/4) indicated that all tissue disaggregation protocols activate MPS cells. Tissue-specific expression clusters indicated that all cell isolation procedures also co-purify other unrelated cell types that may interact with MPS cells in vivo. Comparative analysis of public RNA-seq and single cell RNA-seq data from the same lung cell populations showed that the extensive heterogeneity implied by the global cluster analysis may be even greater at a single cell level with few markers strongly correlated with each other. This analysis highlights the power of large datasets to identify the diversity of MPS cellular phenotypes, and the limited predictive value of surface markers to define lineages, functions or subpopulations
Real sequencing datasets for evaluating bacterial SNP calling pipelines
No full textThis archive is provided as an online supplementary dataset for the Bush, et al. manuscript "Genomic diversity affects the accuracy of bacterial SNP calling pipelines". Collectively, this represents an ‘all-in-one’ archive of data to facilitate both the replication and expansion of this study using real sequencing data. It comprises 18 sets of paired-end reads and assemblies (sourced from the REHAB project), the associated indexed reference genomes, SNP call truth sets, VCFs, a suite of Perl scripts, and operating notes
A corpus of names drawn from the local birth registers of England and Wales, 1838-2014
No full textThis dataset comprises a corpus of names, in both the first and middle position, for approximately 22 million individuals born in England and Wales between 1838 and 2014.
This data is obtained from birth records made available by a set of volunteer-run genealogical resources - collectively, the "UK local BMD project" (http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local) - and has been re-purposed here to demonstrate the applicability of network analysis methods to an onomastic dataset. The ownership and licensing of the intellectual property constituting the original birth records is detailed at https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/TermsAndConditions. Under section 29A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, a copyright exception permits copies to be made of lawfully accessible material in order to conduct text and data mining for non-commercial research.
The data included in this dataset represents the outcome of such a text-mining analysis. No birth records are included in this dataset, and nor is it possible for records to be reconstructed from the data presented herein.
The data comprises an archive of tables, presenting this corpus in various forms: as a rank order of names (in both the first and middle position) by number of registered births per year, and by the total number of births across all years sampled. An overview of the data is also provided, with summary statistics such as the number of usable records registered per year, most popular names per year, and measures of forename diversity and the surname-to-forename usage ratio (an indicator of which forenames are more likely to be transferred uses of surnames). These tables are extensive but not exhaustive, and do not exclude the possibility that errors are present in the corpus.
Data are also presented both as ‘.expression’ files (an input format readable by the network analysis tool Graphia Professional) and as ‘.layout’ files, a text file format output by Graphia Professional that describes the characteristics of the network so that it may be replicated.
Characteristics of the original birth records that allow the identification of individuals - for instance, full name or location of birth - have been removed
Un détachement de l'armée américaine dans les écoles de Paris
No full textBush Stephen H. Un détachement de l'armée américaine dans les écoles de Paris. In: Revue internationale de l'enseignement, tome 74,1920. pp. 345-358
Un détachement de l'armée américaine dans les écoles de Paris
No full textBush Stephen H. Un détachement de l'armée américaine dans les écoles de Paris. In: Revue internationale de l'enseignement, tome 74,1920. pp. 345-358
Unique placeholder IDs for each gene, transcript and exon model in the "UMD CASPUR WD 2.0" annotation of the water buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) genome assembly
No full textThe "UMD CASPUR WD 2.0" annotation of the water buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) genome assembly, as published by Williams, et al. (PMCID: PMC5737279), does not yet have a standardised set of placeholder IDs for each gene, transcript and exon model. We used the transcripts from this assembly as the basis of a large-scale gene-level expression atlas for the water buffalo. To aid in the presentation of findings, we assigned - where unavailable - placeholder IDs to all gene, transcript and exon models of this annotation. This dataset comprises this standard nomenclature, alongside coordinates of each gene, transcript and exon
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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