“Is every definition persuasive?” If essentialist views on are rejected and a pragmatic account adopted, where defining is speech act which fixes the meaning of term, then problem arises: if meanings not fixed by essence being itself, persuasive? To address problem, we refer to Douglas Walton’s impressive intellectual heritage—specifically argumentative potential definition. In finding some non...

Fuel for thought. A better measure of exposure to jet fuel shows that some military personnel may be at increased risk for adverse health effects from breathing noxious fumes. In this issue, Steve Wing, an associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues investigate environmental injustice in North Carolina's s...

suggested a figure of 60 — that a chart of their activities would be as unappealingly complicated as a chart of intermediary metabolism. His prediction of the number of motor proteins has turned out to be disturbingly accurate (how did he do it?), though the charts have remained appealing. The significance of all this is that there are movements within cells, and motors responsible for them, th...

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With XML and XML Schema widely acknowledged as the de facto standard for data exchange and interoperability between remote applications, the need for checking integrity and adequacy of XML documents, also by means of automated tools, increases. In this perspective, this paper addresses two objectives: we provide a classification and a short overview of the diverse existing approaches for the te...