Practical theology: Can it really help the local congregation?

Direct autofluorescence during CO2 laser surgery of the larynx: can it really help the surgeon?

Herein we assessed the impact of direct autofluorescence during intraoperative work-up on obtaining superficial free resection margins, identifying new areas of malignant transformation and altering disease-free survival and local control at 3 years in patients submitted to transoral laser surgery (TLS) for early glottic cancer. Prospective cohort evaluation was carried out on the diagnostic ac...

Can CALL Really Help Advanced CFL Learners?

The Microbiological Diagnosis Of The Peri-Implant Disease: Can It Really Have A Practical Significance?

J Dent Health Oral Disord Ther 2016, 4(5): 00127 present in the diseased periodontal sulcus: Porphyromonas gingivalis, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola and various species of prevotellaceae [313]. In addition to these findings, many studies analyzing the microflora of peri-implant crevice in fully edentulous subjects noted the almost total, or total, absence of...

What Is Word Meaning, Really? (And How Can Distributional Models Help Us Describe It?)

In this paper, we argue in favor of reconsidering models for word meaning, using as a basis results from cognitive science on human concept representation. More specifically, we argue for a more flexible representation of word meaning than the assignment of a single best-fitting dictionary sense to each occurrence: Either use dictionary senses, but view them as having fuzzy boundaries, and assu...

Peer review: can it really work?

This note offers some observations and suggestions regarding peer review. Some of them are intended to be constructive and serious, while others are simply meant to provoke further thought and debate. Most of the ideas discussed below are not my own but came up in conversations with other people. However, since I cannot hope to recall all these people accurately and cannot be sure that they wou...