Background: There has been little interest in the research literature on public opinions regarding assisted conception and surrogacy, particularly in Iran. Nevertheles, the growing evidence shows that problems in adaptation and coping may be related to perceived normative values. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study, questionnaires on attitudes to surrogacy were completed by 187...

in poor judgment, impaired insight, poor personal hygiene, and vulgar speech. This poorly characterizes the executive functions of the frontal lobes. Similar treatment is given to most subjects addressed in this book. Brevity may be forgiven if it occurs simultaneously with extensive documentation of primary or ancillary sources. The authors document sources infrequently, however, leaving the i...

Introduction In 2013, Jonathan Martin, a starter for the Miami Dolphins professional football team, checked into a local hospital for psychological treatment after a year of repeated harassment by three teammates.1 The players had made persistent graphic sexual remarks and obscene gestures about Martin’s sister and mother.2 Martin’s teammates bombarded him with racial and vulgar insults like “n...

In 2008, Chinese netizens began creating subversive puns. These puns, including the well known “grass-mud horse,” were designed to engage in a satirical online movement against internet censorship of vulgar or politically sensitive words. By examining online subversive puns’ birth and development, this paper presents a phonological analysis of the growing Chinese internet lexicon. First, the re...

Increased economic power has positioned China within the global elite, yet China’s legitimacy remains low with regard to hierarchies of taste. Drawing from Bourdieu and Elias, the paper offers an account of the global dynamics of status contests, and the role played by cultural capital and notions of civility and vulgarity. Specifically, we examine how U.S., UK and Chinese media represent Chine...

K. Allan () Monash University, Melbourne, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Abstract (Im)politeness is never a depersonalized, decontextualized absolute but always a perception or judgement of appropriate behaviour on a given occasion—what one expects oneself and others to do in a particular social interaction. Nevertheless, it is normal for most tabooed words and phrases to be castigat...

drinking -because of the economic changes wrought by their temperance predecessors and class superiors. Eventually the upper portion of the artisan "Washingtonian Societies" distinguished itself from the more "vulgar" and secular, lower portions by taking on the colouration and tactics (including legal coerciveness) of the wealthy evangelicals. Antebellum prohibitionism quickly faded after its ...

Research in statistical machine translation (SMT) is largely driven by formal translation tasks, while translating informal text is much more challenging. In this paper we focus on SMT for the informal genre of dialogues, which has rarely been addressed to date. Concretely, we investigate the effect of dialogue acts, speakers, gender, and text register on SMT quality when translating fictional ...

There is some picturesque writing and a good deal of sound surgery in the small volume before us. Tropes and figures abound. Thus (p. 5), "setting up inflammation in the surrounding structures, and rendering the skin adherent -and undermined, she (Nature) seeks relief from tension by carrying a lighted torch, as it were, among highly inflammable tissues." This process of " rendering the skin un...