Another Argument for Adaptability

Another Argument on the "Crisis Said" of Comparative Literature

In her article "Another Argument on the 'Crisis Said' of Comparative Literature" Ping Du discusses "Crisis Said", the long-lasting topic since the birth of Comparative Literature. She argues that after every crisis comes an opportunity of a new development of Comparative Literature. Du claims that comparative literature is experiencing a rebirth in the Age of Multiculturalism. She, firstly, rev...

Ewiro1enwial Adaptability Elvirolmental Adaptability

in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of City Planning. This thesis has two principal objectives. Firstly it attempts to measure the environment, defined by activity and space, to see how it changes and how it is formed. The rationale for this search is that unless we obtain this information we cannot tell where maladjusted activity and space relationships exist, an...

Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing environments

In Magri 2009a, I argue that a sentence such as #Some Italians come from a warm country sounds odd because it triggers the scalar implicature that not all Italians come from a warm country, which mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that all Italians come from the same country. If this proposal is on the right track, then oddness can be used as a diagnostic for scalar implicatures. In ...

HPV-linked oral cancer: another argument for universal HPV vaccination of boys and girls.

Five years ago, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) conducted a case-control study in 9 sites (Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland, Poland, India, Cuba, Canada, Australia, and Sudan) of 1415 participants with cancer of the oral cavity and 255 with oropharyngeal carcinoma.1 Markers for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection were evaluated, including antibodies against HPV16 E6 and E7...

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