Occupational violence is a worldwide, multifaceted problem affecting all industries, including healthcare. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of the experiences of 158 allied health professionals, 135 doctors, and 1229 nurses working in a rural area in eastern Australia. Response rates were 72 percent for allied health professionals and 62 percent for general practitioners (GPs) and nurses. ...

This study proposes a modified version of cultural algorithms (CAs) which benefits from rule-based system for influence function. This rule-based system selects and applies the suitable knowledge source according to the distribution of the solutions. This is important to use appropriate influence function to apply to a specific individual, regarding to its role in the search process. This rule ...

attitudes toward motherhood among societies change over time and fertility rates have fallen over.mothering and motherhood are the subjects of a rapidly expanding body of literature. set of this studies have a more macro focus in terms origions of motherhood and how it manifests in practice .in the current research in the base of parson's general theory of action (a.g.i.l), motherhood is c...

This paper discusses the distributive reading of plural superlatives. We argue that the compositional interpretation of plural superlative sentences requires that the referent of the superlative description is excluded from the comparison class associated with the degree morphology. We extend the claim to superlatives in general. The proposal implies that we need to rethink the presupposition c...

Theories of presupposition in the tradition associated with Karttunen, Stalnaker and Heim relate presupposition satisfaction to the content of conversational participants’ epistemic states, usually modeled as sets of worlds. However, converging evidence from recent work on modality and from other areas of cognitive science suggests that epistemic states are better thought of as having the riche...

achieving a good or desirable understanding is one of the concerns for every nterpreter or theory of interpretation. one of the issues seen as a major obstacle in achieving such an understanding is the interference of presuppositions. the present article, as a descriptive analytical study which applies library data and textual references, aims first to investigate the nature and types of presup...

This study investigates the online discourse generated by a class of student interns regarding dilemmas they experienced in their work life. The interns use an application designed to foster a dialectical record of their experiences and differences of opinion about how to understand those experiences. We use discourse analysis to explore the students' presuppositions about good communication in...

The semantics of everyday language and the semantics of its naive translation into classical rst-order language considerably diier. An important discrepancy that is addressed in this paper is about the implicit assumption what exists. For instance, in the case of universal quantiication natural language uses restrictions and presupposes that these restrictions are non-empty, while in classical ...