"Be It Ever So Humble . . ."

So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive Judgments.

When do descriptive regularities (what characteristics individuals have) become prescriptive norms (what characteristics individuals should have)? We examined children's (4-13 years) and adults' use of group regularities to make prescriptive judgments, employing novel groups (Hibbles and Glerks) that engaged in morally neutral behaviors (e.g., eating different kinds of berries). Participants we...

So Be It: The Discourse-Semantic Roles of So and It

The aim of the article is to determine whether so and /'( fulfil distinct discourse-building roles, in their predicateand proposition-anaphoric guise. Is the choice between them determined by the syntactic or semantic nature of their 'antecedent', or of the context in which the choice between them is to be made? Or do they in fact themselves determine their 'antecedent' (or at least superimpose...

Burst Imaging—Can It Ever Be Useful in the Clinic?

Burst is an ultra-rapid imaging sequence that works by excitation of magnetization using a series of regularly spaced, low flip-angle pulses, applied at the same time as a gradient in the read direction. In the original concept, this gradient is constant, and multiple echoes are refocused under a constant-read gradient. This article brings together the previous literature on the subject, placin...

Finding a cure for HIV: will it ever be achievable?

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has led to a major reduction in HIV-related mortality and morbidity. However, HIV still cannot be cured. With the absence of an effective prophylactic or therapeutic vaccine, increasing numbers of infected people, emerging new toxicities secondary to cART and the need for life-long treatment, there is now a real urgency to find a cure for HIV.There are ...

Why It ’ s So Hard to Be Fair