The concepts of objectivity, truth, and the authority of empirical standards have comeunder serious challenge by some critics of the social sciences in the past several decades. Feminist critics charge that the concepts and methods of the social sciences reflect an essentialpatriarchalism that discredits the objectivity of social science knowledge. Marxist criticssometimes contend t...

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

BRIEF RAND research has found that subsidies in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) health insurance exchanges exert a stabilizing effect on the insurance market by encouraging younger, healthier people to stay enrolled in the face of premium hikes. This broadens the pool of insured individuals and helps keep costs down for all enrollees. Put another way, subsidies reduce the problem of adverse s...

Mathematical models based on partial differential equations (PDEs) have become an integral part of quantitative analysis in most branches of science and engineering, recently expanding also towards biomedicine and socio-economic sciences. The application of PDEs in the latter is a promising field, but widely quite open and leading to a variety of novel mathematical challenges. In this introduct...

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

The aim of this study is to suggest a new assessment Katherine Anne Porter’s semi-autobiographical account her near-death experience with the 1918 flu, Pale Horse, Rider (1939), considered by many as paradigmatic American narrative that pandemic. Following trend set most critics Porter, article explores intersections memory and fiction in novella, but shifting attention our present-day response...

We address three common misconceptions about capability-based systems: the Equivalence Myth (access control list systems and capability systems are formally equivalent), the Confinement Myth (capability systems cannot enforce confinement), and the Irrevocability Myth (capability-based access cannot be revoked). The Equivalence Myth obscures the benefits of capabilities as compared to access con...

People have always related art to the creation and transmission of myths. While myth as a theme in has been thoroughly addressed, research about ?mythic? nature artist figure is far less common. The 20th 21st centuries brought challenges status artists society, historically situated archetypes stereotypes that we associate with ?artist? still survive this day (e.g. ?genius?, ?subversive artists...