Further than yesterday: that’s all that counts

That was yesterday, and (hopefully) yesterday is gone.

In his article, Dr. Edward Foulks describes a series of events which have been acted out, in varying forms, many times on many reservations and in numerous Native villages. Those of us who have worked in the area of Indian mental health have all witnessed and, in some cases, have become involved in such scenarios and debates. The use of research results, data, and interpretation have presented ...

Further evidence that not all executive functions are equal

The current study presents a comparison of 2 structural equation models describing the relationship between the executive functions of updating and inhibiting. Although it has been argued that working memory capacity is defined by one's ability to control the focus of attention, the findings of the current study support a view of the executive control of attention that reflects updating and inh...

A Quantitative View of Short Utterances in Daily Conversation: A Case Study of Thats right, Thats true and Thats correct

Short utterances serve a multitude of different communicative functions in interactive speech and have attracted due attention in recent research in dialogue acts. This paper presents a quantitative description of three short utterances i.e. that’s right, that’s true, that’s correct and their variations based on the Switchboard Dialogue Act Corpus. Particularly, it offers an overview to account...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...