We consider when the quaternion matrix equation AXB+CXD=E has a reflexive (or anti-reflexive) solution with respect to given generalized reflection matrix. adopt real representation method derive solutions it is solvable. Moreover, we obtain explicit expressions of least-squares solutions.

This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in preface written by North Irish poet Seamus Heaney his retranslations Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account generic identity considering it as a textual subgenre where translator becomes metatranslator voice herself out invisibility, engages (self-reflexive) and “justification” commenting on choice translate...

The goal of achieving powerful problem solving capabilities leads to the “advice taker” form of program and the associated problem of control. This proposal outlines an approach to this problem based on the construction of problem solvers with advanced self-knowledge and introspection capabilities. 1 The Problem of Control Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead lif...

BACKGROUND Cough reflex testing is a validated tool for identifying patients at risk of silent aspiration. However, inter- and intra-rater reliabilities of perceptual judgements of cough strength are sub-optimal. Although there are clinically established methods for measuring volitional cough strength, no similar methods are identified for reflexive cough strength. This study evaluated three me...

Abstract The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a 2-week residential ‘popular education’ programme for young, diverse, international, labour movement activists, run by the International Federation of Workers Education Associations in Cape Town, South Africa. In this mixed method study ( N = 47), we draw on Social Identity Approach to and Learning. We propose that participatory, peer-to-...

The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for "he" (, with semantic radical , meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for "she" (, with semantic radical , meaning woman) indicates females only. This critical feature could result in different patterns of processing of gender informati...

The article starts by recalling the results of recent experiments that have revealed that, to a certain extent, the “ability to simultaneously distinguish between different possible perspectives on the same situation” (Decety and Lamm 2007) exists in chimpanzees. It then describes a case study of spatial and temporal disorientation in a young man following a cerebral lesion in order to introduc...

Key concepts of Risk Society as elaborated by Ulrich Beck and others (Beck, U., 1992 (trans. Mark Ritter). The Risk Society. Sage Publications, London. Beck, U., 1995, Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk. Polity Press, Cambridge. Beck, U., 1999, World Risk Society. Polity Press, Cambridge. Giddens, A., 1994, Beyond Left and Right. Polity Press, Oxford. Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S., 199...

A new example of a non-zero quasi-nilpotent operator T with reflexive commutant is presented. Norms ‖T n‖ converge to zero arbitrarily fast. Let H be a complex separable Hilbert space and let B(H) denote the algebra of all continuous linear operator on H. If T ∈ B(H) then {T}′ = {A ∈ B(H) : AT = TA} is called the commutant of T . By a subspace we always mean a closed linear subspace. If A ⊂ B(H...

In this paper we describe and analyse results from an empirical study designed to provide insight into factors facilitating and/or inhibiting the emergence of the much-heralded 'informed patient' and its sociological equivalent, the 'reflexive patient' or 'reflexive consumer'. In particular, we seek to examine the relationship between information and empowerment in a healthcare context and asse...