Even the word "neurosurgery" itself conjures immediate feelings of complexity and incomprehensibility to the student who is trying to understand the concepts involved in surgical treatments of the human brain. Especially at the beginning of the road to understanding this complex subject, the student is often overwhelmed and frustrated by the explosive number of monographs, texts, atlases, and o...

"Mosquitoes do not surrender to elephants," says Walter Lippman. In this book, P. F. Mattingly discusses some of the secrets that enable mosquitoes to be so courageous. The book is a comprehensive discussion of the natural history of mosquito-borne diseases and the mosquitoes which carry them. It primarily deals with current ecological concepts and succeeds in conveying a wealth of information ...

Time-compression techniques change the playback rate of speech without introducing pitch artifacts. However, when linear-compression techniques are used, human comprehension of time-compressed speech typically degrades at compression rates above two times real time [1]. These degradations are not due to the speech rate per se: Comprehension of linearly compressed speech often breaks down above ...

Technical writings rely on the extensive use of polysyllabic words. Such words contain in the strict sense more than three syllables and the number of syllables increases whenever further classification of complex phenomena is needed. Taxonomy, in particular, deals with quite long polysyllabic words. Use of specific terminology appears to be quite convenient for small groups of scholars special...

YANNINCK RIPA, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4). We meet a parapraxis on p. 86: "There is a clear analogy to be drawn between asylums and hospitals and indeed it was a truism for the madwoman." Read asylums and pris...

The generic term 'psychosis' is enduring but imprecise and the traditional division between neurosis and psychosis will be discouraged in the 10th revision oftheIntemnational Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), to be published in 1992.' However, it is used in ICD-92 and in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R). It still has an established place in psychiatric pa...

YANNINCK RIPA, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4). We meet a parapraxis on p. 86: "There is a clear analogy to be drawn between asylums and hospitals and indeed it was a truism for the madwoman." Read asylums and pris...

Abstract This article deals with constellations of critique and the critiqued in conflicts over difficult texts. To this end, are observed which difficulty is treated as a problem comprehensibility texts, not only concerns stylistics, but also has an ethical dimension. However, fact that texts require explanation rather than being mediated conveyed cause for criticism, occasion to prove compete...

If you mistake a model car for real car, you're going to have problems. I spent much of my life making that in thinking about atonement. had read “God's justice requires penalty be paid every sin”1 and “to atone is suffer the sins, thereby removing effects sin from repentant sinner allowing him or her reconciled God.”2 was mid-thirties when discovered this penal substitution idea one many diffe...

The medieval eschatological tradition of the ‘15 Signs of the Last Days’ pays special attention to the anguish of animals. This attention seems unnecessary, as animals will not be judged, or resurrected, but only destroyed. Their unnecessary cries might be heard as the cry of life for itself, now useless to God and humans, and also as a reminder to humans of the richness of the worlded selves t...