Career gaps: Maternity muddle

Principles of the Exclusive Muddle

This paper provides a lexical entry schema for exclusives covering the adverbs only, just, exclusively, merely, purely, solely, simply, and the adjectives only, sole, pure, exclusive and alone. We argue, on the basis of inter-paraphrasability relations among these exclusives and entailments involving at least and at most, that all of these items make an at-issue contribution of an upper bound o...

Programmatic Muddle Management

In this paper we demonstrate how diagrams constructed using general-purpose drawing tools in the context of agile language development processes can be annotated and consumed by model management programs (such as simulators, model-to-model and model-to-text transformations). The aim of this work is to enable engineers to engage in programmatic model management early in the language development ...

Variations on an old theme: maternity for women with a very successful professional career.

In this study, relationships of middle-class women from Rio de Janeiro with their family and work are presented. A series of events during the 20th century have changed woman's identity, previously centered on the roles of mother and wife, so that, there are now other options for women. Carioca girls are currently educated to compete, seek greater professional growth, and value their independen...

Maternity

Wading through the Muddle of Risk-utility Analysis

Introduction ................................................ 573 I. Wade's Seven Factors for Assessing Product Defects ... 578 A. W ade's Analysis ................................... 580 B. Reorganization of the Factors ...................... 580 C. Assessment of the First Six Factors ................ 581 D. The Producer as Insurer .......................... 584 II. Alternative Risk-Utility Me...