Attempts to gauge presidential personality on the basis of speeches and other public statements are subject to several potential validity threats. This paper presents a test of the genre imperative of the tendency to make the president sound “presidential,” in combination with the fact that most presidential addresses are drafted by ghostwriters. The test involves comparing the “activity” and “...

At the beginning of twentieth century, French philosopher science Edmond Goblot wrote three prescient papers on function and teleology. He advanced remarkable thesis that functions are, as a matter conceptual analysis, selected effects. also argued “selection” must be understood broadly to include both evolutionary natural selection intelligent design. Here, I do things. First, give an overview...

“R is terrifi c. It’s become too tedious to pretend he isn’t,” said art critic Peter Schjeldahl in 1999, summing up recent opinion about this well-loved American artist, whose work was dismissed by the art establishment during his lifetime (1). “Without thinking too much about it in specifi c terms,” Rockwell said of himself, “I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might no...

Wittgenstein remarked to a number of people that he got the main idea for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus upon reading an account of the use of a physical scale model with dolls and model automobiles and busses in a courtroom case about an traffic accident. He had, he said, been serving in the Austrian army at the Front in the Fall of 1914 at the beginning of World War I when he read a newsp...

calling tradition is among clearest areas which can be found in modern dramatic literary and artistic texts.  the ancient hero is quite well known  and since long has  found his place in literature and art of different nations especially in legends, epics, folk tales, oral literature and dramatic texts such that it was in a battle with other elements and defeated them. abou khalil alqabbani, th...

Hakim Ali Gilani was a native of Gilan. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer. He wrote commentary on canon of Avicenna. He came to India during Akbar's time and served two Mughal rulers, Akbar and Jahangir. He was praised very much by the medical historians for his vast knowledge, curiosity and intelligence. A brief account of his achievements has been given in this article.

Roger McNeill was born in 1853 on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides, the son of a cattle herder. He graduated with a degree in medicine from Edinburgh University, where he studied with Joseph Lister, among others. After working in London during a smallpox epidemic, he received a gold medal and honours for his M.D. thesis in 1881. McNeill returned to Scotland as the Resident Medical Officer at Gest...

Using clinical, morphological, genetic, and biochemical criteria, we studied ten white and North African families with hereditary elliptocytosis (HE). In four families, elliptocytic individuals displayed a highly significant reduction of band 4.1, which was recorded using two electrophoretic procedures. The 4.1a/4.1b ratio was also significantly reduced, as is usually observed in suspensions en...

Ryan Francis grew up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a member of Acadia First Nation. He played hockey the United States while he completed an undergraduate degree Sport Management before returning to obtain Master Physical Education Administration, Curriculum, Supervision. currently employed as Manager Provincial Outreach Coordination for Scotia Department Communities, Culture, Tou...