What is time (and why should linguists care about it)?

What Taphonomy Is, What it Isn’t, and Why Taphonomists Should Care about the Difference

The term “taphonomy” was originally defined by paleontologist I.A. Efremov in 1940 as “the study of the transition (in all its details) of animal remains from the biosphere into the lithosphere”. The term evolved to include plant remains because Efremov also indicated that taphonomy concerned the “transition from the biosphere to the lithosphere”. The concept and the term were both adopted by z...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

European Unemployment: Why is it So High and What Should be Done About it?

At the end of 1997 the average unemployment rate across Europe was just over 10 per cent, more than twice the rate in the United States. Worse, the average (standardised) unemployment rate in Europe has exceeded 10 per cent in every year since 1993. By contrast, the average annual unemployment rate in the United States since the war has never exceeded 10 per cent in any year and the highest ann...

What is osteopenia, and what should be done about it?

Multicollinearity: What Is It, Why Should We Care, and How Can It Be Controlled?

Multicollinearity can be briefly described as the phenomenon in which two or more identified predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated. The presence of this phenomenon can have a negative impact on the analysis as a whole and can severely limit the conclusions of the research study. This paper reviews and provides examples of the different ways in which multicolli...