This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding issue of Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, hypothesis has status both “not proven” and unfalsified. The analyzes a number reasons for this situation, including effects multi-competence, which remove any possibility that competence in more than one language can ever be identical monol...

This article aims to approach the phenomenon of cringe in four steps: First, from a sociological perspective, distinction between shame and embarrassment is discussed working definition developed that conceives this difference as situational rather than essential. In second step, will be used examine more closely how actors’ self-representation decomposed reality format Wife Swap what role crin...

Laughter is often associated with happiness but recent studies show that there are actually five types of Filipino laughter and these are happiness, giddiness, excitement, embarrassment, and hurtful laughter. Facial expressions and vocalization related to Filipino laughter have been the focus in many studies, however body movements with regards to laughter are still left unexplored. The main fo...

It is a privilege that some of the most promising contributors to public health ethics took the time to think and comment on my op-ed. Kristin Voigt’s (1), Emma Tieffenbach’s (2), and Yashar Saghai’s (3) ingenious comments have taught me a lot about nudging, embarrassment, and restriction. Let me address their main points one by one. Kristin Voigt makes two points. One is that nudging by shamin...

Rectal foreign bodies have a been part of history for causing anorectal trauma. The first described report on the management retained rectal dates back to 16th century,and case reports modern era were published in 1919. mean age at presentation is 44 years with decidedly higher proportion male patients.Mostly body found rectum are inserted an attempt hide illegal objects or sexual activities, a...

The prospect of using genes as therapeutic agents presents myriad opportunities. No physician could fail to appreciate the power of this approach: why not abandon the shackles of the limited pharmacological and device repertoire and focus instead on reengineering the culprit tissue by somatic gene transfer? The explosion of genomic information leaves us with an embarrassment of riches in terms ...