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Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. [1] "Sometimes", writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before." [2]
List-length effect: A smaller percentage of items are remembered in a longer list, but as the length of the list increases, the absolute number of items remembered increases as well. [163] Memory inhibition: Being shown some items from a list makes it harder to retrieve the other items (e.g., Slamecka, 1968). Misinformation effect
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
CADASIL; Camera-Marugo-Cohen syndrome; CAMFAK syndrome; Camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome; Cancer syndrome; Cancer-related fatigue
They are known for hiding things, getting people lost, and sometimes throwing stones at people. [3] The curupira is a male supernatural being which guards the forest in Tupi mythology. Granny Squannit - a Little People chieftainess of Wampanoag lore who is consulted as a patron saint, of sorts. Jogah are small spirit-folk from Iroquois mythology.
softening of uterus; similar to Hegar's sign: Lancisi's sign: Giovanni Maria Lancisi: cardiology: tricuspid regurgitation: giant v-wave in seen in jugular vein Landau–Kleffner syndrome: William Landau, Frank Kleffner: neurology, psychiatry: aphasia: aphasia and an abnormal EEG: Larrey's sign: Dominique Larrey: rheumatology: sacroiliitis
Lamb and Easton, and others, have argued that science and art are similar with regard to multiple discovery. [ 2 ] [ page needed ] [ 10 ] When two scientists independently make the same discovery, their papers are not word-for-word identical, but the core ideas in the papers are the same; likewise, two novelists may independently write novels ...