Clinimetrics and psychometrics: never the twain shall meet?

"Never the twain shall meet": spirituality or psychotherapy?

Sivapithecus is east and Dryopithecus is west, and never the twain shall meet

Sivapithecus and Dryopithecus are well-described Miocene hominids (great apes and humans), both known since the 19th century. Over the years these genera have been combined into one (Dryopithecus) or separated up to the subfamily level. Each have been dismissed as interesting side branches, hailed as direct ancestors, or recognized as sister clades to one or more clade of extant hominid. Here I...

The Ballad of If and Since: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

This paper investigates the processing of conditional sentences and sentences with ‘since’ in two respects. Firstly, we investigate the clausal implicature originating from the scale . Secondly, we investigate how modals can affect the interpretation of these sentences. A reading time experiment is reported which involved these two factors. It appears that ‘since’ is pr...

Rods Are Rods and Cones Cones, and (Never) the Twain Shall Meet

More than 100 photopigment G protein-coupled receptors (opsins) have been sequenced and organized into six classes. Rod photoreceptors in various species have been found to express an opsin from one of the two rhodopsin classes, while cones express an opsin from one of the four remaining classes. It has now been discovered that salamander short-wavelength sensitive cones and green rods express ...

Health sector operational planning and budgeting processes in Kenya—“never the twain shall meet”

Operational planning is considered an important tool for translating government policies and strategic objectives into day-to-day management activities. However, developing countries suffer from persistent misalignment between policy, planning and budgeting. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) was introduced to address this misalignment. Kenya adopted the MTEF in the early 2000s, and i...