Raising the standard... to unachievable heights?*

Raising the standard of surgical reporting to increase its impact.

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Raising the standard: practice guidelines and consumer participation.

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly affecting the quality of health care, and have the potential to affect the availability of health care options for consumers. Deciding what guidelines will cover, how they will be developed and what they will say are, therefore, issues in which consumers have a considerable stake. While there is a growing acknowledgement of the need to involve consu...

From Argument Raising to Dependent Raising

In (1a), the transitive verb verkaufen has been fronted, leaving its complement, the NP das Pferd, behind. In (1b), the AP stolz is topicalized without its PP argument auf seine Kinder. And in (1c), the NP ein Buch has been fronted, leaving its PP complement über Syntax behind. In De Kuthy and Meurers (1998, 1999b) we showed that such cases of partial constituent fronting can successfully be an...

Introduction to Heights

Notes for a talk in Stanford’s Arithmetic Dynamics Seminar, Apr. 29, 2014. This talk is an introduction to the theory of heights on projective varieties over local and global fields. I will also say something about canonical heights for a dynamical system, and a local-global formula for these. This material is from Chapters 1-2 of the book by Bombieri and Gubler on heights [BG]; also Silverman’...