Asking the impossible

Asking the impossible: the negligence liability of the mentally ill.

Asking or not asking in Maltese, that is the question

This paper provides an overview of the form and function of questions in Maltese. An attempt to determine whether information-seeking questions differ from confirmationseeking ones is made. Map Task questions coded for function as QUERY-YN and CHECK/ALIGN, as well as QUERY-WH questions , are examined. The paper aims to establish whether choice of tune in Maltese is determined by function, or wh...

Asking the Right Questions

• • Appreciate the importance of a clear and focused research question • • To be able to use criteria such as PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) to frame an answerable question • • Understand the need for primary and secondary questions and the process of refinement • • To understand what a hypothesis is and how it differs from the aims and objectives of a study • • Be aware o...

Asking the Right Question

For instance, enthusiasts of object-oriented programming were initially keen to promote the value of hierarchical models. Only later did experimental evidence reveal that deep hierarchies are more error prone than shallow ones. In contrast, medical practice has changed dramatically during the last decade as a result of adopting an evidence-based paradigm. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, studie...

Asking the right question.

Rendell's most recent predecessor, Tom Ridge , illustrates the historical pattern. Who shall forget the constant allusions to "one-term Tom" that made the rounds of the state capitol during the end of his first year in 1995 and into his second year? Ridge had actually started his governorship with a successful special legislative session dealing with crime legislation and a tax cutting state bu...