‘Too Ambitious’

Normal Diet within Two Postoperative Days—Realistic or Too Ambitious?

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols advocate early postoperative resumption of normal diet to decrease surgical stress and prevent excessive catabolism. The aim of the present study was to identify reasons for delayed tolerance of normal postoperative diet. This was a retrospective analysis including all consecutive colorectal surgical procedures since May 2011 until May 2017. Data...

Limiting our daily sitting/lying to just 23.5 hours: too ambitious?

Thank you to BJSM guest editor Steven Blair and all our January and February authors (http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue1; http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue2). If we apply Bono’s battle cry ‘‘There has been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk’’...to the subject of physical inactivity, we can now proclaim it’s time for action. The January and February BJSM issues bring together globa...

2 Ambitious Two - Dimensionalism

Mercosur: Ambitious Policies, Poor Practices

Mercosur has achieved important advances like the removal of intrabloc tariff and non-tariff barriers and the establishment of a common external tariff for most products. However, its ambitious plans to deepen the integration process comprising harmonisation of policies in areas like competition policy, government procurement, technical barriers and phytosanitary measures have not been implemen...

Presuppositional Too, Postsuppositional Too

One of the insights of dynamic semantics in its various guises (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991, Kamp & Reyle 1993 among many others) is that interpretation is sensitive to left-to-right order. Is order sensitivity, particularly the default left-to-right order of evaluation, a property of particular meanings of certain lexical items (e.g., dynamically interpreted conjunction) o...