Communications Research Laboratory Reborn as an Independent Administ-rative Institution

An obstetrician reborn.

How many obstetricians have lost the focus and motivation that took them into the specialty? How many more have happily given up the discipline altogether and no longer the use the practical skills that they have gained so painfully over countless night-time hours? I was certainly one of those doctors. I had decided to be an obstetrician from fairly early in my medical training and was fascinat...

Museum as Text An Introduction to the Relationship between Semiotics and the Museum as an Institution

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country's museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Sin...

Behaviorism Reborn? Statistical Learning as Simple Conditioning

In recent years, statistical learning (SL) has emerged as a compelling alternative to nativist theories of language acquisition (i.e., Chomsky, 1980). However, in many ways the framework of statistical learning echoes aspects of classic behaviorism by stressing the role of associative learning processes and the environment in shaping behavior. How far backwards has the needle swung? In this pap...

insurance as an independent contract

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Epilepsy as Seen in the Laboratory of a Penal Institution