This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
Background. Spirituality is an increasingly discussed topic in nursing. In some parts of the UK there is a policy requirement to establish policies of spiritual health care which are appropriate to a multi-cultural society. In the nursing literature, spir
This paper investigates the notion of covert communication in advertisements. I begin by discussing the role of intentions in communication, outlining the relevance-theoretic view. Taking the work of Keiko Tanaka (1994/1999. Advertising Language: A Pragma
West Tump is a Neolithic chambered tomb originally excavated in 1880. The mound was found to contain a mixed skeletal assemblage, the majority of which was disarticulated. Between 2000 and 2001 material from the site including human bone was re-examined w
The objective of this study was to investigate the synchronization between low-frequency breathing patterns and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) of heart rate during guided recitation of poetry, i.e., recitation of hexameter verse from ancient Greek lit
While apatite carbonate 613 C analysis is a useful tool in palaeodietary research, the vulnerability of carbonates to diagenesis necessitates careful sample preparation. The most common preparation method involves dilute acetic acid treatments to remove h
This paper presents a new theory of vagueness, which is designed to retain the virtues of the fuzzy theory,while avoiding the problem of higher-order vagueness. The theory presented here accommodates the idea that for any statement S-1 to the effect that
Professional music journals frequently publish descriptions of newly registered patents concerning classical musical instruments. Only a few of the many proposals for innovation actually enter production. The large number of ideas for improving musical in
The strategy of sociocultural critique through the 'problematization' or 'defamiliarization' of the habitualized character of everyday life is one that is well-established in the literature, especially for adherents of various neo-Marxisms. However, i
There is currently a growing literature on the role that trust plays in encouraging consumers to engage in e-commerce transactions. Various models have been proposed which aim to identify both the antecedents and outcomes of trust displayed towards e-comm
This paper is concerned with a set of cases involving pronominal clitic forms in various languages which have not received much attention in the literature and which we refer to, for descriptive purposes, as marginal pronominal clitics. The general hypoth
This is an isotopic study of collagen and bone apatite samples from individuals buried in the 1st-3rd centuries AD cemetery of Isola Sacra on the Mediterranean coast near Rome, Italy. C-13/C-12 and N-15/N-14 ratios of collagen and C-13/C-12 in carbonate o
This paper investigates the relationships between aspects of the context in which an utterance u takes place, and u's semantic profile, that is, its literal truth-conditions. It is widely recognized that contextual features play two important but differe
Archaeological quartz artifacts and naturally fractured quartz fragments occur in a variety of cultural and geological contexts worldwide. For dating such objects we have developed the new Quartz Hydration Dating (QHD) technique. It relies on the phenomen
The adaptational-continuum model of personality and coping suggests a useful context for research areas that emphasise both personality and coping. The present paper used Ferguson's (2001) model integrating personality and coping factors to combine theor
This article traces the history of the term 'voyeurism' from its psychoanalytic origins in the 1950s to contemporary uses in popular culture and post-Freudian, biological psychiatry. It begins with an overview of the psychoanalytic foundations of the te