IMPOSITIONS ON SURGEONS.

Promises, Impositions, and other Directionals

Promises, impositions, proposals, predictions, and suggestions are categorized as voluntary co-operational methods. The class of voluntary co-operational methods is included in the class of so-called directionals. Directionals are mechanisms supporting the mutual coordination of autonomous agents. Notations are provided capable of expressing residual fragments of directionals. An extensive exam...

At-issue Proposals and Appositive Impositions in Discourse

Potts (2005) and many subsequent works have argued that the semantic content of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses, e.g., the underlined material in John, who nearly killed a woman with his car, visited her in the hospital, must be in some way separate from the content of the rest of the sentence, i.e., from at-issue content. At the same time, there is mounting evidence from various ...

Physician among surgeons: thoughts on preoperative assessment.

“On-the-job training for surgeons”

159 methods, diagnostic methods, associated techniques and strategies for mutation detection. All these chapters provide an overview of the common techniques involved and protocols for their implementation. with succinct references. The final chapter comments on "Current strengths, weaknesses and future requirements for mutation detection methods" and outlines problems with such methods and the...

Surgeons Take on End-of-Life Care.