More protein talk

Do arthritic patients talk more?

BACKGROUND The modification of speech properties in patients may indicate a more profound pathology. Ample research has been undertaken in relation to different demographic and genetic factors on arthritis but significant research on speech in arthritis had not been conducted globally. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of arthritis on the duration of speech in patients. ...

Some More Thoughts About Thought and Talk:

1. One tenet of Donald Davidson's account of radical interpretation is the interdependence of utterance interpretation and belief ascription. Assigning meanings to a speaker's utterances requires interpreters to make concomitant determinations of their beliefs. But at the same time, one cannot fix the contents of a subject's beliefs without identifying the meanings of their utterances. So belie...

High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What to Do About Corruption in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We ur...

'Talk, talk and more talk': parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests

Introduction. This article explores parental perceptions of young children's everyday life information practices related to their hobbies and interests. Method. Thirty-one parents of children between the ages of four and eight years old completed a survey about their children's hobbies and interests. Questions were related to the nature of the children's activities and the ways in which childre...

Medical malpractice: a time for more talk and less rhetoric.