Since the first lockdown in March 2020, time seems to have slowed a continuous present tense. The Greek language has three words express different experiences of time: aion, chronos and kairos. If aion is boundless limbo-like eternity, represents chronological, sequential, linear time. Kairos, however, signifies rupture ordinary with opportune moment, epiphany redemption, revolution, most broad...

Children spontaneously produce speech as they learn a language, which raises the question of whether articulation of words is necessary for language acquisition. While one side argues that it is not essential (Gathercole et al., 1999), the other propounds for a perception-production link (Keren-Portnoy et al., 2010). This research explores the impact of production on the development of lexical ...

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world's largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses' engagement with dual practice. METHODS We c...

This comment on Professor Fotaki’s Editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. It argues that for system change to occur, senior management, government members and civil servants themselves need training so that they learn to understand the effec...

Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone[13] requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a \radio alphabet," using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility, then using this metric in a GA to select appropriate words from a larger list of candidate words. This work indicates several large...

Giaedi argues that employing an electronic medical record system may be the one solution that will addresses almost all problems. This is true, but in developing countries, most of the obstacles lie against preparing the health system for electronic services. In other words, the electronic health system has the potential to provide solutions to a lot of problems only if it works, and it works o...

• Haspelmath (1993) argues that the direction of morphological derivation correlates with the likelihood that the event can occur spontaneously—events more likely to occur spontaneously are lexicalized in their morphologically basic form as words denoting non-causative COS predicates (e.g. melt), while those less likely to occur spontaneously are lexicalized in their morphologically basic form ...