How Secret Should Spiritual Knowledge Be? Human-spirit relations in the Nenets tundra

Opacity in Tundra Nenets

The analysis of opaque relations presents a problem to classic Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993), inherently a surface-oriented theory. Many different proposals have been made to integrate the analysis of opacity into OT. In this paper, we address the problem of opacity in Tundra Nenets (TN), a Uralic (Samoyedic) language spoken in Arctic Russia and No...

Opacity in Tundra Nenets

Should Malpractice Settlements Be Secret?

In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Sage et al1 report a novel study of nondisclosure provisions among Texas malpractice settlementagreements.Nearlyall thesettlementscontained at least one type of disclosure restriction, andapproximately 40% barred claimants fromdiscussing the facts surrounding their injury. Nearly a quarter prohibited claimants fromalertingaprofessional regulatorybody tow...

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

How should parthood relations be expressed in SNOMED CT?

The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is a clinical terminology with a broad coverage of health care, which has been developed with the help of a rather inexpressive description logic dialect known as EL [1]. The advantage of using a description logic (DL) for defining a medical ontology is that, instead of error-prone “hierarchy engineering,” where each newly in...