This paper is an historical study of the formation of the Chinese resultative verb compounds (RVCs) that signal a resultant state of a non-agent with a V1V2 predicate. Metaphorization and metonymization, understood within the theoretical framework of Brinton & Traugott (2005), are proposed to have played a most important role in the formation of the RVC in Middle Chinese. Many scholars noted (W...

I present an overview of the potential impact on health care providers due to blanket federal spending cuts (the Sequester) triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011, highlighting specific areas of impact to both academic and private practice physicians. The aim is to provide some clarity and context to the health care component of the Sequester and, consequently, defuse some of the hype and ...

The field of neuroscience has witnessed the emergence of a novel methodological approach that allows for the optical control of neuronal activity. This technology, recently dubbed “optogenetics,” combines optical and genetic tools in order to establish temporally and spatially precise control of activation and inhibition of specific neuronal cell types within the brain. So far, most of these st...

Preamble Health professionals have a disciplined approach to post mortems and autopsies at the individual level, and sometimes at the hospital unit level so as to learn from medical failures. Engineers have " safety factors " in designing structures and systems so as to avert unpredictable failures and a visible, though not always orderly, tradition of learning from their failures. Books on the...

Making sense of new information technology (IT) and the many buzzwords associated with it is by no means an easy task for executives. Yet doing so is crucial to making good innovation decisions. This paper examines how information systems (IS) executives respond to what has been termed organizing visions for IT, grand ideas for applying IT, the presence of which is typically announced by much “...

* Senior Consultant Physician Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Department of Medicine National University Hospital Address for Reprints: Professor Vernon M S Oh, Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore119074. E-mail: [email protected] As with clinical practice, the practice of biomedical research i...

To avoid a sarcastic message being understood in its unintended literal meaning, in microtexts such as messages on Twitter.com sarcasm is often explicitly marked with the hashtag ‘#sarcasm’. We collected a training corpus of about 78 thousand Dutch tweets with this hashtag. Assuming that the human labeling is correct (annotation of a sample indicates that about 85% of these tweets are indeed sa...

The prediction of pressure and output power fluctuations amplitudes on Francis turbine prototype is a challenge for hydro-equipment industry since it is subjected to guarantees to ensure smooth and reliable operation of the hydro units. The European FP7 research project Hyperbole aims to setup a methodology to transpose the pressure fluctuations induced by the cavitation vortex rope from the re...

Mass media and popular science journals commonly report that new fossil discoveries have 'rewritten evolutionary history'. Is this merely journalistic hyperbole or is our sampling of systematic diversity so limited that attempts to derive evolutionary history from these datasets are premature? We use two exemplars-catarrhine primates (Old World monkeys and apes) and non-avian dinosaurs-to inves...

Media hyperbole about children and crime, along with electoral politics, may well reflect a configuration of personal anxieties, competing social values and public policy options. In this article, I will argue that it is a configuration that represents a crisis of governance far more than a crisis of ‘youth’. However, the research community is far from blameless in the propagation of ‘myths’ ab...