Twenty five years after the original epidemiological studies 2 two thirds of all patients with coronary artery disease still die before reaching hospital (p 1065). These patients have no opportunity to benefit from the advances in hospital treatment of acute myocardial infarction, such as thrombolysis, that have dramatically reduced mortality in hospital. It is particularly sobering to see in t...

How do individuals detect inconsistencies? According to the theory described in this article, they search for a possibility represented in a mental model, in which each proposition in a description is true. If they find such a possibility, the description is consistent; otherwise, it is inconsistent. Evidence corroborates the theory. The evaluation of consistency is easy when the first possibil...

introduction the fire services play a key role in safety issues for any country. the operations of the services have a high visibility since the public is aware of its own vulnerability and possibly vital reliance on the service. firemen and women are rightly admired, particularly as their intervention may carry a risk to their own lives. more generally, this service comes at a considerable cos...

In the field of law, decisions in previous cases often play a significant role in the presentation and outcome of new cases. Lawyers are constantly recalling old cases to aid them in preparing their own briefs. How do lawyers remember cases? What are the features they use to organize and retrieve past decisions? How do lawyers learn which features are important? To address these Questions we ar...

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This article discusses different modes of expressing ingressivity in the Slavic languages—the grammatical expression of ingressivity (by means of imperfective verb forms) and its lexical expression (by means of the use of stat' as an ingressive phase verb or perfective procedural verbs prefixed with za-)—and relates them to one another as two competing systems. It is shown that these phenomena ...

In their article "Science Fiction and a Rhetorical Analysis of the 'Literature Myth'" Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, and Geert Vandermeersche discuss what we can learn from science fiction about cultural literacy in general and literary culture in particular. From a theoretical and methodological perspective the authors start from the work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. First, the authors concept...