Chapter VII - Commentary

Chapter VII: Gödel-Dummett Logics

CHAPTER VII Problems of Process : Results

Chairmen: Fred Eggan and Daryll Forde. Papers discussed: Kluckhohn, «Universal Categories of Culture"; ~ Hoijer, «The Relation of Language to Culture";~ Martinet, "Structural Linguistics";~ Levi­ Strauss, «Social Structure"; ~ Boyd, «The Contributions of Genetics to Anthropol­ ogy";~ Steward, «Evolution and Process," Speakers: Eggan, Boyd, '''ashburn, Kluckhohn, Murdock,t Henry, HOijer, Ken­ na...

Chapter VII Language - Action Perspective ( LAP )

The Language-action perspective (LAP) provides an alternative foundation for analyzing and designing effective information systems. The fundamental principle of the LAP approach is people perform actions through communication; therefore, the role of information systems is to support such communications among people to achieve business goals. Basing on linguistic and communicative theories, the ...

Commentary: A new chapter for forensic ethics.

In response to a new ethics framework for forensic publishing, this commentary invites speculation on how the framework will develop to incorporate the theories of its authors. Although medical ethics may now be an established cornerstone for forensic practice, it is in the more novel theories of cultural narrative, compassion, and robust professionalism that this new ethic will find its full e...

Editorial Commentary The Genetics of Primary Aldosteronism Chapter Two

For many years it was thought, and taught, that primary aldosteronism was a relatively benign cause of hypertension, rare ( 1%) and suspected only in patients with severe hypokalemia. We know now that none of this is the case: primary aldosteronism is relatively common (8% to 13% of unselected hypertensives), with much higher cardiovascular risk factors (stroke, atrial fibrillation, and nonfata...