In this paper we investigate the periodic structure of rich words (i.e., words having the highest possible number of palindromic factors), giving new results relating them with periodic-like words. In particular, some new characterizations of rich words and rich palindromes are given. We also prove that a periodic-like word is rich if and only if the square of its fractional root is also rich.

Daniels, Porteny and Urrutia et al make a good case for the idea that that public decisions ought to be made not only “in the light of” evidence but also “on the basis of” budget impact, financial protection and equity. Health technology assessment (HTA) should, they say, be accordingly expanded to consider matters additional to safety and cost-effectiveness. They also complain that most HTA re...

Based on empirical work and literature review, this paper has advanced a theoretical framework that integrates knowledge management, change management and ‘soft’ issues. It argues that the ‘‘soft’’ dimension helps to better understand the process of organizational knowledge transfer. Guidelines for managerial action were formulated in order to make explicit, be aware and understand embedded ‘so...

In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, lexical adjustment, or ad hoc-concept construction, is considered a case of free pragmatic enrichment. It hence included within the group non-linguistically mandated processes that are automatically carried out during comprehension. Its output an inferentially-specified representation conceptual content encoded, activated, by open-class words like nouns, adjec...