this paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. the paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Spatial evolutionary games are studied with myopic players whose payoff interest, as a personal character, is tuned from selfishness to other-regarding preference via fraternity. The players are located on a square lattice and collect income from symmetric two-person two-strategy (called cooperation and defection) games with their nearest neighbors. During the elementary steps of evolution a ra...

& Wilson, 1999). With occasional exceptions, men far outnumber women as the killers and women outnumber men as the victims (Daly & Wilson, 1988; Dobash & Dobash, 1979). These killings present a puzzle for social scientists: Why would the relationship most frequently characterized by love result in the highest risk of death? Several hypotheses have been advanced to account for these findings. On...

Consider this propositional function which includes the dyadic predicate “loves”: “X does not love Y unless loves X” (or “if X”). This may be treated in four ways. (1) If universally quantified, it states a (purported) conceptual truth about “love” or nature essence of love. Love is necessarily reciprocal. (2) alternatively nomological generalization stating an empirical factual human nature, i...

Nov 23, 2016 . She explained that her erotic preference consists in wearing diapers. After the completion of treatment, he enrolled into a military school. Hawkinson and Zamboni surveyed so called Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers via internet sites. impulsive behavior in an imaginative and potentially creative person . On our honeymoon, I discovered a package of adult diapers in an overnight bag ...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(3) Lovers throughout the ages One of the great fascinations of the study of medical history is the personalities that emerge from documents and manuscripts. When I ask a group to name a really famous lover from the pages of history, the cry “Casanova” heads the list virtually every time and, on some occasions, ends with him. There is a great gap bet...