Drowning not Waving: Comments on Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

Genome Biology: Not Drowning but Waving

One could be forgiven for thinking that biology is in turmoil following recent discoveries that seem to undermine conventional wisdom surrounding the role of genomes in evolution (Ball, 2013). Is the vast excess of genomic DNA—hitherto dismissed as junk—indispensable after all? Are the effects of the environment often transmitted between generations regardless of the information in genes? What ...

Drowning or Waving

Waving not drowning: virtue ethics in general practice.

of Monty Python. At a more modest level I remember listening to the Beatles' first hit, Love Me Do, blasting out from my elder brother's bedroom on a Sunday afternoon in 1962. Little did I realise that the brown austerity of the 1950s was passing and that the 60s had arrived! Part of the culture Changes in the medical world don't happen in a vacuum. They happen within specific societies and wit...

on translation of phatic communion and socio-cultural relationships between the characters of the novels

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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