Philosophers engaged in projects of ‘ameliorative inquiry’ offer accounts social categories, such as those race and gender, that set aside the descriptive question understanding categories they currently exist favour developing how we ought to think given our political goals. For feminists whose goal is combat gender injustice, dictionary definition ‘woman’ ‘adult human female’ has, on face it,...

Words are longer when they are mentioned for the first time within a discourse and shorter in subsequent mentions. This Repetition Effect is usually attributed to the fact that, with repetition, the word becomes more accessible to either the speaker or the listener. In the present paper, we argue that the Repetition Effect is better seen as lengthening of words that are mentioned for the first ...

On December 9, 2006, President Bush signed the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678) into law. Passage of S. 3678 marks a major milestone in improving public health and hospital preparedness for bioterrorist attacks, pandemics, and other catastrophes and for improving the development of new medical countermeasures, such as medicines and vaccines, against biosecurity threats. Highl...

BACKGROUND The significant reductions in hospital admission demonstrated in US assertive community treatment (ACT) studies have not been replicated in the UK. Explanations cite poor UK 'model fidelity' and/or better UK standard care. No international model-fidelity comparisons exist. AIMS To compare high-fidelity US ACT teams with a UK team. METHOD The UK 700's ACT team (n=97) was compared ...

The relationship between the indicative and the imperative in Paul's writing is sometimes and understandably seen as the basic structure of his ethics.1 By 'indicative' we have in mind the fact that the new life in Christ is a work of God; it finds its origin in the death and resurrection of the Lord and comes into being through the work of the Holy Spirit. The believer is thus a new creation; ...