Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

A major focus of register research has been language variation in academic discourse. These studies describe patterns use spoken and written texts. Although there have numerous this type, most focused on registers English descriptions published (e.g. textbooks, articles, abstracts). Much less work caried out other languages or unpublished registers. This special issue presents five describing t...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

I want to connect up into a coherent theory three primitive ideas which no one in their right mind would normally want to consider together. The fi rst is this: In an (1922), unpublished (seriously unpublished) typescript on Truth and Simplicity, Frank Ramsey speculated on the idea that truth is an incomplete symbol and that the claim that “‘p’ is true” can be expressed in certain linguistic co...