Abstract In The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting Kull makes a foray into concept Beauty. His target article welcome contribution not only for providing biosemiotic notion beauty but also as trigger further enquiry matter. Additionally, delivers new concept: Fitting, shining light on Umwelt theory. My commentary embraces challenge presents (that semi...

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. richard saltman and antonio duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

in arabic grammar, adjective is one of the five syntactic appositives and thus follows the features and rules of syntactic apposition. usually, there is a main principle on which a consensus of the authentic references is recorded, while the minor rules and secondary regulations might vary in different grammar books. this paper aims at representing ibn ya’ish ‘s viewpoints on adjective and subs...

This commentary addresses the issues of 'care' in intelligent learning systems more precisely, elaborating and extending the definition to include recent research from neuroscience and education on the affective aspects of learning. It reflects on the association of profound empathy with care and in what ways the systems described in this issue illustrate features of profound empathy. It conclu...

Palliative care is increasingly available and the importance of its role increasingly recognized. International work toward making palliative care a basic human right underscores the growing need to ensure comfort and pain relief for the terminally ill. The organizational structures in place for providing such care vary greatly within and across countries; even definition of the term is not uni...

this commentary considers the vexed question of whether or not we should be spending time and resources on using multifaceted interventions to undertake implementation of evidence in healthcare. a review of systematic reviews has suggested that simple interventions may be just as effective as those taking a multifaceted approach. taking cognisance of the promoting action on research implementat...

Asking ‘What is X?’ questions is a natural human inclination, and because all scientists that have so far published are undoubtedly human, they discuss such issues often enough. ‘What is Life?’ almost by definition is the king of such questions as far as Biology is concerned (1). Indeed, in the article which I address in this commentary (2), Edward Trifonov cites a recent special issue of the j...