Combative capping in Aristophanic comedy

The Combative Patient

Combative patients are among the most difficult patients emergency physicians encounter. Often brought in against their will, they are agitated, confrontational, and nearly impossible to examine, and they may physically harm themselves or others. The emergency physician should seek to control the patient and the situation, diagnose and treat reversible causes of violence, and protect the patien...

A Theory of Combative Advertising

Yuxin Chen • Yogesh V. Joshi2∗ • Jagmohan S. Raju • Z. John Zhang The Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY. (E-mail: [email protected]) The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3730 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104. (E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) ∗Corresponding Author: Phone: 215 573 0541, Fax: 2...

Aristotle's Theory of Comedy

<193>Aristotle, in his Poetics, claimed that tragedy, “through pity and fear, accomplishes the catharsis of such emotions (di j ejlevou kai; fovbou peraivnousa th;n tw'n toiouvtwn paqhmavtwn kavqarsin) (Poet. 1449b27f.) .” It has been argued that the medical purgation theory of the musical catharsis in Politics is the key phrase for the interpretation of tragic catharsis, where he says, those w...

Interspecific combative interactions between wood-decaying basidiomycetes.

Competition is the most common type of interaction occurring between wood-decaying higher fungi. Since competition for nutrients in organic resources is effectively brought about by competition for space, the common division into interference and exploitation competition is not very appropriate. Fungal competition can be divided into primary resource capture (obtaining uncolonized resources) an...

Be constructive, not combative, with union staff.