theories and theorizing in the field of international relation shave always been faced with the ups and downs of this area of study as it is faced with adversity of opinions . with the advent of critical approaches in the study of international relations and the need to understand the existing international order and provide a desirable international order, since the 1970s the importance of the...

BACKGROUND Significant knowledge gaps exist in the functioning of institutional designs and organisational practices in purchasing within free healthcare schemes in low resource countries. The study provides evidence of the governance requirements to scale up strategic purchasing in free healthcare policies in Nigeria and other low-resource settings facing similar approaches. METHODS The stud...

In the article authors have developed an eco-economic mechanism for formation of a system national priorities in terms sustainable development. The is based on Concept Sustainable Development, which improves its theoretical basis: characteristics, principles and components. Their manifestation at world level taken into account. Diagnosis state countries carried out EU-27 as whole individual cou...

Imperatives occur ubiquitously in natural languages. They produce forces which change the addressee’s cognitive state and regulate her actions accordingly. In real life we often receive conflicting orders, typically, issued by various authorities with different ranks. A new update semantics is proposed in this paper to formalize this idea. The general properties of this semantics, as well as it...

A generative theory of emergent syntax aims to reduce UG to a more plausible size, with increased roles for the PLD and a domain-general Minimax acquisition bias. I examine the syntax of imperatives in this light, advancing an analysis that captures the centrality of the addressee. Imperatives provide acquirers with crucial information about their language, from which they actively generalise. ...

This chapter investigates the use of imperative-formatted directives in Swedish medical consultations. The specific focus of the chapter is the division of labor between straight, non-modulated imperative turns and imperative turns which are modulated with a discourse particle or some other verbal mitigating device. The results show that non-modulated imperative turns are embedded in diagnostic...

In European Portuguese (EP), intonation has a grammatical function. In the available research in EP intonation, production imperatives are said to have an F0 risingfalling contour of large amplitude and are described as having an intonation contour similar to wh-questions, although they present rhythmic differences (Viana, 1987). A possible increase in pitch span was also reported. Two percepti...