The unique charm of the study on Shanghai pragmatic prosody lies both in fact that culture is a melting pot where maritime and immigrant cultures meet rub shoulders, prosodic variation rapid development city. following features research are evident: 1) predominance individual prosody. focuses linguistic phenomena, does not systematically investigate as single object. 2) contexts usually divided...

Recent call-outs against Ottawa punk venues have fueled public debates about safe space and the inclusivity of local music scenes. The Music Strategy released in 2018 translated these into cultural development policy that links creative placemaking discourse. This article examines civic response to activist by analyzing how integrates diversity inclusion strategies policy, policies intersect wi...

Introduction: Patients refusing transportation is common EMS practice with potentially fatal outcomes. Determining which patients are at high risk for poor outcomes poorly defined. This study described who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) within 24 hours of transportation. Method: a retrospective, descriptive had OHCA between 2019 to 2021. Data was obtained from large, urban...

This article describes the implementation stages of changes in preventive vaccination procedures Children’s City Outpatient’s Clinic №133 Moscow Department Health since December 2019. Comprehensive work has been performed on increasing adherence to among doctors various specialties, and immunization coverage registered pediatric population. As a result this project medical prevention department...

Abstract This paper sets out to unpack the pragmatic structure of refusal—its illocutionary nature, success conditions, and normative effects. I argue that our ordinary concept refusal captures a whole family illocutions, comprising acts such as rejecting, declining, like, which share property being ‘negative second-turn illocutions’. Only proper refusals (i.e. negative replies permission reque...

OBJECTIVES To measure the bias in national estimates of HIV prevalence in population-based surveys caused by mobility and refusal to test. METHODS Data from nine demographic and health surveys and AIDS indicator surveys were used. Non-responders were divided into three groups: (i) "refusals" who were interviewed but not tested; (ii) "refusals" who were present in the household but not intervi...

We appreciate the methodological concerns of Henrich and Silk (1), which resemble those of Jensen et al. (2). Both critiques focus on the lack of refusals by the responders in our ultimatum game (UG) (3), an option on which the subjects were never trained. As discussed previously (4, 5), we fail to see how this lack of refusals would invalidate the behavioral change measured in the proposers. B...

BACKGROUND In the late 1990s, in the context of renewed concerns of an influenza pandemic, countries such as Ghana and Malawi established plans for the deployment of vaccines and vaccination strategies. A new pandemic was declared in mid-June 2009, and by April 2011, Ghana and Malawi vaccinated 10% of the population. We examine the public health policy perspectives on vaccination as a means to ...

Conscientious Objection (CO) has become a highly contested topic in the bioethics literature and public policy. However, when CO is discussed, it almost universally referred to as single entity. Reality reveals more nuanced picture. Healthcare professionals may object given action on numerous grounds. They oppose an because of its ends, means, or factors that lay outside both ends means. Our pa...