Five economic imperatives

Neurotechnological assessment of consciousness disorders: five ethical imperatives

Disorders of consciousness (DOCs) cause great human suffering and material costs for society. Understanding of these disorders has advanced remarkably in recent years, but uncertainty remains with respect to the diagnostic criteria and standards of care. One of the most serious problems concerns misdiagnoses, their impact on medical decision-making, and on patients' well-being. Recent studies u...

Five Essays in Economic Theory

Development Imperatives

The objectives of the project are 1) to enhance the capability of civil society organizations in economic policy advocacy work, and 2) to pursue specific policy reform agenda based on the needs of the sector. In the last three years, in each of the sub-sector, the project is implemented through the MultiStakeholders’ Team (MST) which consists of a key NGO partner, a subject specialist (technica...

Conditionalized Imperatives

Before talking about conditionalized imperatives, I want to ensure a common understanding of ‘imperative’, namely as a clause type in the sense of Sadock and Zwicky (1985). That means that for a given language L , imperative will be taken to denote one of L ’s form types at sentence level, namely the one tokens of which are prototypically used for REQUESTs or COMMANDs. As such they are parallel...

Imperatives in conditional conjunction ∗

This paper provides evidence for an ambiguity of bare VPs in the English conditional conjunction construction. This ambiguity, undetected by previous researchers, provides a key to the development of a compositional semantic analysis of conditional conjunction with imperative first conjuncts. The analysis combines existing semantic theories of imperatives, the future tense, modal subordination,...