Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?

What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it?

Universal Grammar (UG) is a suspect concept. There is little agreement on what exactly is in it; and the empirical evidence for it is very weak. This paper critically examines a variety of arguments that have been put forward as evidence for UG, focussing on the three most powerful ones: universality (all human languages share a number of properties), convergence (all language learners converge...

"What to do--how to do it.

A Shiite innatist conception of reason, and what it can do for religious education (RE)

In this study I have argued for a theoretical foundation of a coherent and defensible religious education (RE). It has been said that for RE to be accepted as a reasonable subject matter it should be researchable. But for a subject to be researchable, or research based, it needs to be supported by reason, a kind of reason that have a public and universal character. On the other hand we need a c...

Subclinical atherosclerosis: what it is, what it means and what we can do about it

Atherosclerosis is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory disease with a long asymptomatic phase. Disease progression can lead eventually to the occurrence of acute cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris and sudden cardiac death. While the disease is still in a subclinical stage, however, the presence of atherosclerosis can be identified by several methods, ...

Federal health policy response to Hurricane Katrina: what it was and what it could have been.

ONE YEAR AGO, THE UNITED STATES EXPERIENCED one of the worst natural disasters in its history. Hurricane Katr ina caused wel l documented, widespread death and destruction, reducing hospital capacity by 80% and safety-net clinics by 75% in New Orleans alone. The hurricane also created a diaspora of more than a million evacuees to every state in the nation. This disaster could be viewed as an is...