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Neal (Neil) is a surname and masculine given name of the Gaelic origin. The name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion". As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish king and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill and MacNeil kindred. Most authorities cite the meaning of Neal in the context of a surname as meaning champion. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: NealA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Virtual Reality and Alternate Realities in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash”Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Dust tracks on a roadThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Information Bodies: Computational Anxiety in Neal Stephenson'sSnow CrashCited 204 times
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📖 Definitions
Verb To temper by heat.
Verb To be tempered by heat.
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Information Bodies: Computational Anxiety in Neal Stephenson'sSnow Crash
Identification of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) RAPD markers diagnostic of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne arenaria (Neal) Chitwood) resistance
Diversification of geographic risk in retail bank networks: evidence from bank expansion after the Riegle‐Neal Act
Two‐Mode Networks and the Interlocking World City Network Model: A Reply to Neal
Neal-field synthetic seismograms taking into account the effects of anelasticity. The effects of anelastic attenuation on seismograms caused by a sedimentary layer.
Changes in market assessments of bank risk following the Riegle–Neal Act of 1994
Introgression of homeologous quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for resistance to the root-knot nematode [Meloidogyne arenaria (Neal) Chitwood] in an advanced backcross-QTL population of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
An optimal control approach to pilot/vehicle analysis and the Neal-Smith criteria
🆕 Influential since 2022
Virtual Reality and Alternate Realities in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash”
NEAL: an open-source tool for audio annotation
Here Be Dragons: The Evolution of Cyberspace from William Gibson to Neal Stephenson
Laughter and mental health: a case study of Merv Neal
Morphological and molecular characterisations of the damaging root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne arenaria (Neal, 1889) Chitwood, 1949, parasitising black pepper and coffee in Vietnam
📚 Books worth reading
Dust tracks on a roadZora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward · 1942
This can't be happening at Macdonald Hall!Gordon Korman · 1978
The killing circleChris Wiltz · 1981
Beware the Fish!Gordon Korman · 1980
As I amPatricia Neal, Richard Deneut · 1988
The Zucchini WarriorsGordon Korman · 1988
Patricia NealStephen Michael Shearer · 2006
The emerald lizardChris Wiltz · 1991
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