Nominative Determinism or Aptronyms

The Brady Bunch? New evidence for nominative determinism in patients’ health: retrospective, population based cohort study

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether a name can influence a person's health, by assessing whether people with the surname "Brady" have an increased prevalence of bradycardia. DESIGN Retrospective, population based cohort study. SETTING One university teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. PARTICIPANTS People with the surname "Brady" in Dublin, determined through use of an online telephone direct...

Psychopathic Aggression: Will or Determinism

Psychopathic aggressive behavior is extremely antisocial and its destructiveness can be appalling. Throughout the past and still at present, psychopathy has been the topic of descriptive, psychodynamic, genetic and biological investigations. This article addresses the question of whether psychopaths are free in their decisional capacity or whether their criminal acts are subjected to determinis...

Genetic determinism or genetic discrimination?

Successive-cyclic case assignment: Korean nominative-nominative case-stacking

In recent literature, a debate has arisen between two theories of the calculation and realization of morphological case. The more commonly held theory, the Agree model, states that all Case-features on nominals are valued by nearby functional heads. Given a designated case-assigning functional head F0 and a nominal α that is c-commanded by F0, the case-marking associated with F0 will be assigne...

Nominative Proxy Signature Schemes

In a nominative proxy signature scheme, an original singer delegates his signing power to a proxy, who generates a nominative signature on behalf of the original signer. In a nominative proxy signature scheme, only the nominee can verify the signature and if necessary, only the nominee can prove its validity to the third party. In this paper, we first classify the nominative proxy signature int...