Halting Genocide: Rhetoric versus Reality

Memory in neuroscience: rhetoric versus reality.

The central point of this article is that the concept of memory as information storage in the brain is inadequate for and irrelevant to understanding the nervous system. Beginning from the sensorimotor hypothesis that underlies neuroscience--that the entire function of the nervous system is to connect experience to appropriate behavior--the paper defines memories as sequences of events that con...

Two-child policy in China: Rhetoric versus reality.

State Power in a Globalised Economy: Rhetoric versus Reality

This paper examines the connotations that globalisation has for state and market actors, and the impact it has on policy choices. It evaluates the ongoing evolution of statehood and sovereignty with particular reference to the redefinition of the role of the state under conditions of contemporary globalisation. It looks at the impact that the process of globalisation has on various actors. Draw...

From rhetoric to reality.

Mary Robinson was elected the first female President of Ireland in 1990, a position she held until she resigned in 1997 to take up the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which she held until 2002. The daughter of two physicians, she holds a Master of Arts from Trinity College Dublin, a law degree from King’s Inns, Dublin, and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School. In 1...

Web Specifications: Rhetoric vs Reality

There is an increasing awareness within both the research literature and commercial practice that Web systems have a number of unique characteristics. Many organisations are responding to this by identifying modified processes that purport to address these unique characteristics. There is, however, the potential to utilise these processes as a marketing tool (indicating organisational capabilit...