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Leida Gamage
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Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, this Concise version is written by an expert team of 80 international and multi-faith contributors. It contains entries on all the major and many minor religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Taoism. Over 500 entries cover movements, sects, and cults, from Cargo Cults and the New Age movement to Rastafarians and Soka Gakkai. Over 1,000 entries explore the sacred writings of religions worldwide, and short biographies of founders, leaders, gurus, philosophers, mystics, and heretics are given. There are details of sacred sites, customs, religious practices, dogmas, beliefs, traditions, festivals and fasts, and artefacts such as altars, rosaries, icons, and torah ornaments. There are also entries on worldwide religious teachings on abortion, animals, birth control, war, homosexuality, and suicide.
In general, the name-gender dictionary is best used in combination with information on the origin of the innovator or creator, for instance, their nationality. This is mainly because names customs change from country to country. For example, Andrea is typically used for women in the U.S. and men in Italy. As a result, the WGND (and many others dictionaries) provide combinations of name, country, and the most frequent gender.
Of course, the quality of the gender attribution depends heavily on the quality and coverage of the gender-name dictionary. This is why global coverage of names is essential for a dictionary like this one.
The main challenge faced to attribute gender is to get a gender-name dictionary with worldwide coverage. For this reason, the WGND compiles as many different public and private sources of gender-name dictionaries exist for as many different countries as possible. The WGND amplifies these based on the most frequent official languages spoken in each country to increase the global coverage of the existing national gender-name dictionaries.
In 2016, WIPO consolidated the first world gender-name dictionary (WGND) to identify the participation of women inventors, compiling the information from 14 different sources, which, when combined, cover 182 different countries and territories.
This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile a worldwide gender-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different countries to disambiguate the gender of PCT inventors.
Users can take directly take advantage of the graphing capabilities on WID.world to make simple plots. For more advanced analyses, they can download the data and then import it into their preferred statistical software. For two of them (R and Stata), we provide packages to directly access the WID. Overall, we can distinguish four ways of accessing the data on WID.world.
The two-letter country codes used in WID mostly follow the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. The list has however been amended to include world regions, country subregions, former countries and countries not officially included in the standard. The full list, including the composition of regions, is indicated below.
The classification of regions on WID.world are standard, continental, sub-regions, political and other. The choice of this classification depends on historical, political and economic criteria and on the availability of data for each country. The standard definition is what is currently presented for the region map on WID.world. However, different categorization is also available to display the data produced by researchers and cover the wide interests of users. Some countries were grouped together to track the evolution of inequality since 1820, presented in Chancel & Piketty (2021).
Some of the data in WID.world refers to specific parts of the distribution. That is, we rank people according to their income or wealth, group them according to their rank, and report statistics on these different groups. They are coded pXpY, where X and Y are both numbers between 0 and 100. X correspond to the percentile for the lower bound of the group, and Y to the percentile for the upper bound (hence X < Y).
If the spell checker flags certain words as misspelled but you want it to ignore these words, you can add them to the default custom dictionary. To change the default custom dictionary where these words are added, see Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words, below.
If you want your new custom dictionary to be the default dictionary, where any words you add will be saved, see the next task, Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words.
When you add words while checking spelling, new words are added to the default custom dictionary, which is the one at the top of the list when you open the Custom Dictionaries dialog box. You can change the default custom dictionary used for all Office programs:
By default, when you create a new custom dictionary, the program sets the dictionary to All Languages, which means that the dictionary is used when you check the spelling of text in any language. However, you can associate a custom dictionary with a particular language so that the program uses the dictionary only when you check the spelling of text in a particular language.
The Custom Dictionaries dialog box lists the available custom dictionaries the program can use to check spelling. If the dictionary you want to use, such as one purchased from a third-party company, is installed on your computer but not listed in the Dictionary list box, you can add it.
If you want this custom dictionary to be the default dictionary, where any new words you add will be saved, see the section Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words above.
Whenever you check the spelling of a document, you have an option to add a word flagged as misspelled to a custom dictionary. The default custom dictionary is the dictionary to which Microsoft Word adds the word when you do this.
When a word that isn't recognized in the Word for the web dictionary appears in a document, Word will mark it as misspelled by underlining it with a wavy red line. If you want Word to recognize the spelling as correct, you can add it to the dictionary.
A custom dictionary contains words that are not in the main Office dictionary. You can either create a new dictionary or modify the main dictionary. Custom dictionaries created in Word are shared with the other Office programs. This document contains instructions for creating and editing a custom dictionary using Word.
In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, under the Dictionary List, select the newly created custom dictionary
NOTE: The new custom dictionary is selected if a checkmark appears in the box before it.
From Proofing options, in the When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs section, deselect Suggest from main dictionary only
NOTE: This option is deselected when no checkmark appears in the box before it.