Medieval French Miracle Plays: Seven Falsely Accused Women

Ridicule or recourse: parents falsely accused of past sexual abuse fight back.

Seven ways to preserve the miracle of antibiotics.

Antibiotic resistance is a well-acknowledged crisis with no clearly defined comprehensive, national corrective plan. We propose a number of interventions that, collectively, could make a large difference. These include collection of data to inform decisions, efforts to reduce antibiotic abuse in people and animals, great emphasis on antibiotic stewardship, performance incentives, optimal use of...

Serge Renaud: from French paradox to Cretan miracle.

Serge Renaud: from French paradox to Cretan miracle N ow in his ~OS, Serge Renaud has b e e n challenging dogma and winning scient& bets for more than 50 years. As a student in Montreal, Canada, in the 195Os, Renaud showed in a fortnight that an experimental animal polyarthritis-held for 2 years to be stress induced-was caused by an infectious agent. But what he is best known for is his work on...

Syntactic annotation of medieval texts: the Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French (SRCMF)

This article presents the Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French (SRCMF). The corpus is composed of texts taken from the two major Old French corpora, the Base de Français Médiéval and the Nouveau Corpus d'Amsterdam. This contribution describes some of the core principles of the annotation model, which is based on dependency grammar, as well as the annotation procedure and representation...

Therapists' liability to the falsely accused for inducing illusory memories of childhood sexual abuse--current remedies and a proposed statute.

A father hired a private investigator after his [adult] daughter reportedly uncovered a repressed memory and accused him of incest. The investigator [visited] the therapist complaining [of] nightmares and trouble sleeping. On the third visit, the therapist told [her] that she was an incest survivor. 'She [said] I could not remember because my brain had blocked the memory that was too painful to...