What's Literally in Joyce

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Literally speaking

Modern uses of the word literally are surveyed, and the solecistic misuse of this word as an expression of speaker commitment is shown to be a natural semantic extension of its basic metalinguistic meaning. The development appears to be typical of a large class of intensifiers, though it is argued that literally itself is only in the early stages of such an evolution. Aspects of this developmen...

108-113 Joyce

Family Planning Perspectives Through the mid-1980s, Medicaid eligibility requirements included very low income thresholds established by the individual states. Between 1987 and 1991, eligibility standards for poor and near-poor pregnant women were expanded dramatically. The 1986 Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act (OBRA) permitted states to extend eligibility (and receive reimbursement for se...

Joyce the Playwright

Focus+Context Taken Literally

Pointing out relevant information to a user is one application of focus+context techniques in information visualization. We present a method for doing this which uses selective blur to direct the user’s attention. This method is based on the depth of field (DOF) effect used in photography and cinematography, and is therefore both familiar to users and perceptually effective. Because this method...