About the authors Acknowledgements Introduction Definitions of child neglect Fatal child neglect Conclusion Appendix Notes References

Even speakers of American English who think they grew up in the Midwest do not agree on its boundaries. So what determines the meaning of 'Midwest' to a given speaker? We argue that the meaning of a geographical term like ‘Midwest’ is based in part on one's experience with locations that one knows to be part of the region. This exemplar-based knowledge causes the perceived location of the Midwe...

In the context of the present discussion, we adopt a simple working definition of resilience as an organisation‟s ability to successfully adjust to the compounded impact of internal and external events over a significant time period. Within the domain of business systems we further define success as the organisation‟s ability to maintain economic viability as defined by the economic markets. We...

The article exposes an urgent problem of contemporary university education, specifically the one of designing of electronic manuals on artistic disciplines. It provides redefinitions of the terms nomenclature (“multimedia aids”, “electronic manual”) and the requirements for the modern multimedia aids of teaching. The authors present the electronic textbook “Russian Music: from Ancient Times to ...

The tathāgatagarbha doctrine is one of the most significant Buddhist doctrines to have come under the scrutiny of scholars in recent times. One of the more interesting aspects of this doctrine is that it focuses attention on the nature of the Buddhist “absolute” or highest truth in such a way as to make clear many of the problems and concerns of the Buddhist community after the advent of the do...

This paper aims at redefining the generally accepted notion of unfinished or elliptic sentence, which appears to be crucial in defining in turn the notion of fluency itself. It will be shown that a large part of utterances which a regularly trained linguist would consider as unacceptable and revealing some kind of disfluency of the speaker who produced them, are in fact fully accepted by the pa...