The orthodox Anglican Church practice of baptism from the sixteenth Century required the parents to bring the child to church, on a day of public worship, where the ceremony would be conducted by an ordained clergyman. An upper limit of 14 days after birth was stipulated for this ceremony from about 1650 onwards. The urgency implicit in this rule related to the theological concern of the church...

Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narrative...

This study examines the process by which perceptions of conversational flow foster an emergent sense of group entitativity. We propose that conversational flow influences more than just the quality of interpersonal relations: it signals entitativity - social unity at the group level. We predicted that when conversations are intermitted by brief silences after a target has spoken, this is percei...

This paper outlines a truth-conditional view of logical form, that is, a view according to which logical form is essentially a matter of truth-conditions. Section 1 provides some preliminary clarifications. Section 2 shows that the main motivation for the view is the fact that fundamental logical relations such as entailment or contradiction can formally be explained only if truth-conditions ar...

We review some of the salient results presented at this Workshop, together with some comments on the underlying physics, and the proposed facilities for future experiments. ISN 93–17 February 5, 2008. Invited talk at the Workshop on Spin and Flavour in Hadronic and Electromagnetic Interactions, Turin, September 1992, to appear in the Proceedings SPIN AND FLAVOUR: CONCLUDING REMARKS

3 Preliminaries 5 3.1 Rational Preference Relations (RPRs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Choice Sets, Choice Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4 Social Choice Functions (SCFs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.5 Social Welfare F...

The estimation of the decoherence process of an open quantum system is of both theoretical significance and experimental appealing. Practically, the decoherence can be easily estimated if the coherence evolution satisfies some simple relations. We introduce a framework for studying evolution equation of coherence. Based on this framework, we prove a simple factorization relation (FR) for the l1...

Recently, attempts have been done to formalize Semantic Matchmaking, the process of finding potential matches between demands and supplies based on their logical relations with reference to a common ontology, in Description Logics (DLs). We extend the formalization to Packages-based Description Logics (P-DLs), modular extensions of DLs, in order to perform the matchmaking operation in contexts ...

This article explores the experiences of unmarried mothers who kept and tried to raise their children between World War One and the end of the twentieth century. It argues that there has not been a simple progression from their experiencing social stigma and ostracism to more enlightened attitudes since the 1970s. Rather there is a great deal that has hitherto been unknown about what the eviden...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of (4/3) bandwidth interval based forecasting. The historical enrollments of the university of Alabama are used to illustrate the proposed method. In this paper we use the new simplified technique to find the fuzzy logical relations.