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Example sentences for: periodical
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The third ranked medical education periodical was Medical Teacher with an IF of 0.574.
The life of a periodical is quite unpredictable; periodicals change or remain the same, but people are more likely to change than remain the same, with the consequent disappearance of venerable publications like Punch , for example.
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
He also founded and, with his son, David, still edits the Barnhart Dictionary Companion [ BDC ], a periodical report on new words that features the staple of Barnhart lexicography--full, dated citations.
(For that matter, the Black Periodical Literature Project concluded in 1996; the African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 series concluded in 1995.)
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