Narrative Strategies in Black Films: Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It"

Iron chelation therapy: you gotta have heart.

Swine High Fever Syndrome: What PRRSV gotta do with it?

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has been demonstrated serologically as early as 1979 in Canada, in the 1980’s in other regions of North America, Europe and east Asia, in China in the mid-1990’s and in Thailand in 1989 (Thanawongnuwech et al., 2004). PRRSV belongs to the family Arteriviridae, genus Arterivirus, generally divided into two major genotypes, European (EU ...

Narrative Strategies in Grief Therapy

The field of grief therapy is currently in a state of conceptual revolution, opening the prospect of reconfiguring our understanding of the human experience of loss along constructivist lines. In this article I outline some of the tenets of such an approach, proposing that the reconstruction of a world of meaning is the central process in grieving. I then present several narrative strategies fo...

You gotta believe

I argue that proper assertion requires belief. Jennifer Lackey has recently argued otherwise. Here I respond to Lackey’s argument and provide positive evidence that permissible assertion does require belief. The positive evidence takes the form of an explanatory argument from linguistic patterns surrounding the give and take of assertion. Looming large in the background of the discussion is whe...

A new acoustic tailbeat transmitter for ®shes

A new acoustic transmitter for monitoring the tailbeat frequency of free-swimming ®shes and sharks is described. The transmitter is externally mounted on the ®sh's caudal peduncle and produces an acoustic pulse with every lateral movement of the tail. Field tests on obligate-swimming juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) show these transmitters accurately telemeter tailbeat de ̄e...