In 2014, the Development in Language Theory conference took place in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Ural mountains of Russia. I used to live there. In Soviet times, there were no international conferences in the city. The whole region of the Urals was closed to foreigners. As I walked the streets of Yekaterinburg, I thought of my friends there and of Faulkner's lines The past is never dead. ...

concerning purpose of man’s creation there, at least, can be two viewpoints. first, man has no purpose but to participate in the competition of gathering wealth, reaching high ranks in the society, and taking power ignoring all human virtues and principles, as if he would live for good and death would never capture him. this is the practical conduct of human beings in general. the second is tha...

BACKGROUND A core task for commanders in charge of an emergency response operation is to make decisions. The purposes of the study were to describe what critical decisions the ambulance commander and the medical commander make in a mass casualty incident response and to explore what the underlying conditions affecting decision-making are. The study was conducted in the context of the 2011 gover...