Doping and Free Speech

the effects of speech rate,prosodic features, and blurred speech on iranian efl learners listening comprehension

کلید واژه ها به زبان انگلیسی: effect of speech rate on listening comprehension, blurred speech,segmental and suprasegmental features,authentic speech,intelligibility, discrimination, omission, assimilation چکیده: سرعت مطالب شنیداری در کلام پیوسته بطور کلی همواره کابوسی بوده برای یادگیرنده های زبان دوم و بالاخص برای شنوندگان ایرانی. علی رغم عقل سلیم که کلام با سرعت کندتری فعالیتهای درک مطلب شن...

Is doping-free sport a Utopia?

Protecting athletes and ensuring sports--free of doping.

Whenever we talk about Dopagem (the Portuguese term adopted by the Autoridade Brasileira de Controle de Dopagem—ABCD—for the act of doping) people usually think only about the consumption of performanceenhancing drugs. Sometimes this is true. However, the larger truth is that doping is not restricted to drugs of any type, it is about ethics; it is about values. When an athlete uses prohibited s...

Free speech, democracy, and eugenics.

O n 30 September and 1 October this year a conference on ‘‘Ethics, Science and Moral Philosophy of Assisted Human Reproduction’’ was held at the Royal Society in London. The conference was organised by the German philosopher Edgar Dahl and the eminent embryologist Robert Edwards, and the speakers included scientists, IVF practitioners, and philosophers from the UK, the USA, Europe, and Australi...

Medical journals and free speech.

A research team headed by Sargent probed children’s responses to televised fast-food ads. The study tested Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) advertising self-regulation guidelines, in which the Better Business Bureau “evaluates child-directed advertising and promotional material in all media to advance truthfulness, accuracy and consistency with its Self-Regulatory Program for Children’...