Cuba’s Critical Juncture: Main Challenges

Lifestyle: Bioethics at a critical juncture.

More than ever, the way we live our lives has become subject to our own decisionmaking. Our whole way of living, in particular what we do to our body, has become the expression of personal lifestyle choices. Because we can make changes to our body according to our own individual preferences, every aspect of our life begins to be seen as the result of individual and voluntary decisions. The comp...

Italian G8 Summit: a critical juncture for global health.

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Navigating a Critical Juncture for Sustainable Weed Management

The Importance of Ideas: An A Priori Critical Juncture Framework

Juncture Cues to Dissuency

This paper describes properties of normal dissuent speech which help listeners to distinguish dissuent from uent strings of speech. It focusses on juncture phenomena in cases where there is no clear silent pause at the interruption point. Recent attempts to identify acoustically identiiable features of speech which can be seen as reliable indicators of dissu-ency have produced several suggestio...