We discuss some ambiguities associated with the phrase \direct search method" and propose a formal deenition.

Attempts to predict the number of political parties emerging in democracies have usually been based on one of two seemingly incompatible approaches: ( 1 ) the ‘institutional’ approach (e.g.. Duverger’s Law and Hypothesis) focuses o n the nature of the electoral system and also on the number of seats per district: (2) the ‘ideological’ approach stresses the nature and extent of social cleavages....

One hundred and ninety-nine children received lorazepam 0.05 mg kg-1 or trimeprazine 3 mg kg-1 as oral premedication in a double-blind trial. Lorazepam proved more palatable and produced a cheerful demeanour, but possessed no significant advantages on overall assessment before surgery. Following operation, restlessness with vomiting, and evidence of retrograde amnesia occurred more frequently w...

Speakers often overspecify their referring descriptions by including more information than what is required to uniquely distinguish a referent. Although overspecification has received a substantial amount of attention, the factors that play a role in determining this behaviour are not yet well understood. Given evidence of cross-linguistic difference between English and Spanish regarding oversp...