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Fact and Fiction in Psychology

By H. J. Eysenck. (Penguin, 5s.) This is the third of Professor Eysenck's attempts to bring psychology to the masses but here he rides his hobby-horses almost to extinction. After one chapter in whict1 he describes his own laboratory and the techniques he uses, he goes on to describe his own concepts of Personality. This is followed by a comparison between Behaviour Therapy and Psychoanalysis i...

Quorum sensing: fact, fiction, and everything in between.

Els ts Jers II. In troduction 193 III. T he Basics of Microbial Linguistics 193 A . A utoinducers: The language of prokaryotic communication 193 B. A utoinducers with antimicrobial activity 195 C . M ultiple quorum-sensing systems: Integrating the sensory information 198 D . T he ‘‘Environment Sensing’’ theory: So much for social engagements of bacteria! 200 IV. L ost in Translation 202 A . A I...

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

Osmotic therapy: fact and fiction.

This review examines the available data on the use of osmotic agents in patients with head injury and ischemic stroke, summarizes the physiological effects of osmotic agents, and presents the leading hypotheses regarding the mechanism by which they reduce ICP. Finally, it addresses the validity of the following commonly held beliefs: mannitol accumulates in injured brain; mannitol shrinks only ...

Human Nature : Fact and Fiction