Concerning Lay Suggestions on Medicomilitary Affairs

Hurting the Qur’an – Suggestions Concerning the Psychological Infrastructure of Desecration

Recent years have witnessed several examples of desecrations of copies of the Qur’an as a display of non-Muslim hostility against Muslims. The present article attempts to answer a fundamental question relating to this phenomenon: how do desecrators know what acts directed at the Qur’an are likely to offend Muslims? The suggestion put forward is that desecration is an act that can be understood ...

Four Suggestions and a Rule Concerning the Application of ILP

Since the late 1980s there has been a sustained research eeort directed at investigating the application of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to problems in biology and chemistry. This essay is a personal view of some interesting issues that have arisen during my involvement in this enterprise. Many of the concerns of the broader eld of Knowledge Discovery from Databases manifest themselves dur...

An irregular, familial chondro-osseous defect, with suggestions concerning the nomenclature of the generalised osseous dystrophies.

Why patterns are not enough: some suggestions concerning an organising principle for patterns of UI design

• Taxonomise It must allow users to locate or select material from a large corpus; to find the pattern(s) they need. • Proximate It must allow users to locate supporting, perhaps inter-related, patterns applicable to their solution – both “broader” and “narrower”. (This use mirrors known designer behaviour, to jump between levels and layers of the problem, undertaking “opportunistic forays into...

Déjà vu all over again: critical misunderstandings concerning anxiety sensitivity and constructive suggestions for future research.

The debate concerning the relation between anxiety sensitivity (AS) and trait anxiety has been constructive for the field and has suggested a number of important directions for future research. Reiss' (1997) commentary on AS and trait anxiety in this journal, however, contains several serious factual mis-statements and logical errors that confuse, rather than clarify, many of the central issues...