The industrialization of episodic medicine was not the original intent of the market idealists of the early 1970s who favored health maintenance organizations. Many of them regard chain hospitals and emergicenters as the antithesis of what they had in mind. They wanted corporate involvement to change the nature of health care; it seems likely, in the foreseeable future, to reproduce the defects...

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis which suggests that in interpreting a law there are two choices. One can approach a law literally or one can instead focus on its intent. The relevance of this idiomatic opposition to the Employment Equity Act and its provision for affirmative action is interrogated through the presentation of two case studies demonst...

The present research is devoted to the concept ‘patria’ (homeland) analysis in Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias’s novel El señor presidente (Mister President). verbalizations of studied are counted and their linguistic context analysed. totalitarian society described by not fully fictional. dictatorship Estrada Cabrera, though unnamed novel, depicted. realization base...

This study seeks to analyse the occurrence of contrastive relational markers in a corpus recipes called Corpus Women’s Instructive Texts English, 19th century sub-corpus (COWITE19). Opposition relations, also referred as adversative or contrastive, are usually identified with such “but”, “although”, and “however”. From semantic point view, classification these relations can be established into ...

In the era of personalized medical practice, understanding the genetic basis of patient-specific adverse drug reaction (ADR) is a major challenge. Clozapine provides effective treatments for schizophrenia but its usage is limited because of life-threatening agranulocytosis. A recent high impact study showed the necessity of moving clozapine to a first line drug, thus identifying the biomarkers ...