improvements, and a change in the character ofspecific diseases put forward to account for the fall in mortality during the course ofthe nineteenth century or even to assess the relative contribution of each to the mortality level of a particular city. On the latter issue, Robert Woods' own study of the sanitary condition ofBirmingham marks a significant advance in that he is able to provide a ...

Put differently: is it possible to find the conceptual means with which to oppose the central postulate of internal, text-based literary criticism—the total rupture between text and world? Can we propose any theoretical and practical tools that could combat the governing principle of the autonomy of the text, or the alleged independence of the linguistic sphere? To date, the answers given to th...

Summary The American Association for the Advancement of Science and British Royal Society’s science diplomacy taxonomy has received much criticism. Some argue that there is a lack empirical evidence to underpin taxonomy’s three dimensions. This particularly applies third dimension, diplomacy, its effectiveness. Others criticise painting picture compliant scientists who would discard their acade...

I want to respond here in depth to just one of the criticisms of my book, A Farewel to Alms, raised at the SSHA meeting session. This was the assertion by Deirdre McCloskey, among others, that the processes of “survival of the richest” which were identified there could not have had any significant effect on the culture or genetics of societies like England by 1800 (this same criticism was made ...

Humans are evolved animals set up to pursue various life tasks. This gives rise to different phenotypes some of which are conducive to well-being, while others are not. Compassion focused therapy seeks to harness the evolved importance of affiliative and caring motivational processing to help alleviate individuals who are caught in high levels of shame and self-criticism and consequent depressi...

The research was directed to the modern critical books that received book “Al-Muazana bayna Abu Tammam and Al-Buhturi” by Al-Qasim Al-Hassan bin Bishr for Al-Amidi (370 Ah) answer main question: what are features of criticism in Al-Muazana contemporary books? study aims reveal views on approach Al-Amidi, then trying reconcile opinions critics discussed method his book, one them first which appl...

We ask the question, “How good are parameter estimates?,” and offer criticism of confidence intervals as an answer. Instead we suggest the engineering community adopt a little known idea, that of defining plausible intervals from the relative likelihood ratio. Plausible intervals answer the question, “What range of values could plausibly have given rise to the data we have seen?” We develop a s...

This prospective longitudinal study investigated the role of the personality dimensions of dependency and self-criticism in the course of depressive symptoms in a sample of inpatient severely postpartum depressed mothers (n = 55). Depressive symptoms and personality were measured during hospitalization and on average 3 1/2 years later. In line with previous research, a considerable subgroup of ...

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