Recently, Chierchia (to appear) (henceforth C) has proposed a radical departure from the Gricean theory: SIs, he argues, are not the product of rational behavior between cooperative conversants as in (1), but rather are computed automatically in the grammar by means of special semantic composition rules and lexical scales. He argues that reformulating the process of SI computation in this way h...

Government policy in many countries has been to promote manure management methods to reduce the negative impacts related to water and air pollution. The central strategy of encouraging manure as a fertiliser rather than treating it as a waste, is under threat from new concerns on public health and especially food quality. Restrictions on manure applications to certain food crops and the stipula...

PURPOSE To identify factors associated with physician performance in a comprehensive competence assessment. METHOD The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of 683 physicians referred for assessment at the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians from 2000 to 2010, who were evaluated as either safe or unsafe to return to practice. Multivariate logistic regression was used to dete...

Periodontitis, an inflammatory condition of the supporting structures of teeth resulting from dental plaque biofilm attached to tooth surfaces is potentially an important nidus of systemic inflammation and its sequelae. Relevant risk markers common to periodontitis co-existing with coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus play an important role in their pathogeneses and abate in response to...

Thiabendazole (TBZ), imazalil (IMZ), ortho-phenylphenol (OPP), diphenylamine (DPA), and ethoxyquin (EQ) are used in fruit-packaging plants (FPP) with the stipulation that wastewaters produced by their application would be depurated on site. However, no such treatment systems are currently in place, leading FPP to dispose of their effluents in agricultural land. We investigated the dissipation o...

The single-object typed access matrix (SOTAM) model was recently introduced in the literature by Sandhu and Suri. It is a special case of Sandhu's typed access matrix (TAM) model. In SOTAM individual commands are restricted to modifying exactly one column of the access matrix (whereas individual TAM commands in general can modify multiple columns). Sandhu and Suri have outlined a simple impleme...

Credit card usage has been increased tremendously because of the popularity of E-commerce. As the usage of credit card grows the occurrence of fraudulent transactions also increases, thus comes the stipulation of fraud detection. Detection of fraudulent transaction using credit card plays a vital role in financial institutions. In the proposed work, fraud detection is done with data mining appr...

This paper discusses semantic factors contributing to the resultative interpretation of predicates in the Japanese te-ir construction. The construction ambiguously takes on either progressive or resultative meanings. This ambiguity is due to the lexical meaning of the verb, and it is the purpose of this paper to single out and characterize the classes of verbs which take on the resultative mean...

Medical malpractice insurance policies customarily contain a “cooperation” clause requiring insureds to cooperate with the insurer’s efforts to defend the insured against a claim. A common stipulation in this clause forbids the insured from “admitting liability” to an injured or harmed party. Health professionals often understand this clause to have a chilling effect on the truthful disclosure ...

ABSTRACT This article investigates the potential of global value chain (GVC)-orientated sustainability provisions in regional and bilateral trade agreements (FTAs). Such impose social environmental obligations directly onto GVCs, as opposed to creating for governments. The theoretical GVC is examined, concepts effectiveness legitimacy are introduced values by which assess them. Four recent sets...