What do medical students mean when they say “sexual harassment”?

What do we mean when we say an operation works?

At a conference the other day, while hotly debating the role of hip arthroscopic surgery in the management of osteoarthritis, a friend and colleague announced to the assembled throng, 'We know that hip arthroscopy doesn't work'. You would not have expected the Editor-in-Chief of this journal to remain silent at that moment and I certainly was not. However, what the statement did highlight, of c...

What Do We Mean When We Say "Collaboration"?

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...

What do people buy when they don't buy health insurance and what does that say about why they are uninsured?

Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, this study compares household spending on different goods by insured versus uninsured households, controlling for total spending and demographic characteristics. The analysis shows that uninsured households, on average, spend more on housing, food, alcohol, and tobacco compared to insured households. These results suggest that both prices and pre...

Grounding, Justification, Adaptation: Towards Machines That Mean What They Say

Meaningful language use rests on the grounding of the language in the nonlinguistic world and in the practices of language users. This grounding is built up and maintained in interaction, through Conversational Grounding, which is the interactive process with which interlocutors build mutual understanding; Justification, the ability to explain and provide reasons for one’s language use; and Ada...