While writing a book on paraphilias, the author made a thorough search of early references to paraphilias in literature, especially the Bible. Surprisingly just one published paper was available in the literature having any discussion on the references of paraphilia in the Bible, and that too was in French. [Bieder J. The polymorphous sexual deviant: a reading of Freud and the Bible. Ann Med Ps...

BACKGROUND: NASALITY IN TAIWANESE • Nasal distinction is attested but restricted in Taiwanese phi55 ‘put on’ ph̃ı55 ‘take advantage of’ pi55 ‘sad’ p̃ı55 ‘side’ bi22 ‘flavor’ *b̃ı *mi mı̃55 ‘noodle’ • Previous account: especially before nasal vowels, this distinction would not be salient (Wang, 2017) – Full nasality in nasal vowels in Taiwanese (Chang et al., 2011) – Oral voiced stops lack strong bu...

The border-salient and reentrant points of a discrete set are special points of the border of the set. When they are given with multiplicity they completely characterize the set, and without multiplicity they characterize the set if all its 8-components are 4-connected. The inner-salient and reentrant are defined similarly to the border ones, but we show that, in general, they do not characteri...

The present study aims to investigate the relative role of the surface frequencies (i.e., token frequencies) in base word recognition. A masked priming experiment was carried using two types of suffixed French primes: the effects of words having a surface frequency (SF) higher than their base (e.g., cigarette – cigare) were compared with those produced by word primes having a SF lower than thei...

We provide machine-independent characterizations of some complexity classes, over an arbitrary structure, in the model of computation proposed by L. Blum, M. Shub and S. Smale. We show that the levels of the polynomial hierarchy correspond to safe recursion with predicative minimization and the levels of the digital polynomial hierarchy to safe recursion with digital predicative minimization. A...

Research in psychology has shown that when people are told not to think about a pink elephant they cannot avoid doing just that. Similar results are found for language production in that people leak information about hidden figures when instructed to ignore those figures. It is argued that the salience of information plays a crucial role in these effects. The present study investigates how diff...

some legal systems such as the french system have provided some special forms for the contracts concerning the exploitation of the literary and artistic rights and also they have specified the rules and obligations concerning these contracts. the publication contract is of particular importance among other contracts. in the iranian legal system, in spite of the recognition of literary and artis...