ABSTRACT This paper considers one of the most significant and controversial attempts to account for meaning pejoratives as lexical items, namely Hom May’s. After outlining theory, we pinpoint sets pejorative sentences that come out true on their which question whether they are compatible with view advocated by them (so-called Moral Semantic Innocence) remains open. Helping ourselves standard mo...

“An interesting question is, ’Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would t...

The pejorative aphorism Obesity is the result of greed and sloth has come to be applied to the fat individual. The inferences implied are widely accepted not only by the public and journalists but by the health-care professional and the nutritional scientist too. Is this justified particularly with respect to sloth? Of course, fat deposition must be the result of excess intake of energy in rela...

diagnostic status. Nevertheless, many clinicians are sceptical that personality can be assessed reliably and some hold that the diagnosis should be abandoned as being merely judgemental and pejorative (Lewis & Appleby, 1988). There is some basis for scepticism in respect of reliability in view of the evidence that even with operational criteria the clinical assessment of personality is not tran...

Depressive symptoms are frequent during schizophrenia. Depression occurs in the course of a schizo affective psychose or in the course of a schizophrenia (either with acute psychotic symptoms, either without acute psychotic symptoms). Differentiating depression from negative symptoms of schizophrenia or from antipsychotic drug induced side effects can be difficult. The question to know whether ...

This article examines the role of nationalism in shaping Chinese foreign policy in the history of contemporary China over the last 100 years. Nationalism is used here as an analytical term, rather than in the usual popular pejorative sense. By tracing the various expressions of contemporary Chinese nationalism, this article argues that nationalism is one of the key enduring driving forces which...

OBJECTIVE The apex is a particular region of the prostate in its surgical dissection and pathological analysis. We sought to evaluate the prognostic value of the apical localization of prostate tumors. METHOD From 1988 to 2010, data pre- (age, clinical stage, preoperative PSA, biopsy Gleason score) and postoperative (prostate weight, pathologic stage TNM 2010, Gleason score, margin status) of...

“An interesting question is, ’Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington name Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would tu...