Ascriptions of content are sensitive not only to our physical and social environment, but also to unforeseeable developments in the subsequent usage of our terms. The paper argues that the problems that may seem to come from endorsing such ‘temporally sensitive’ ascriptions either already follow from accepting the socially and historically sensitive ascriptions Burge and Kripke appeal to, or di...

It is a commonly held notion in the U.S. that transforming an "underdeveloped" society into a more technologically advanced society with a higher economic standard of living results in an improved diet and better nutritional status. This notion, which persists to this day, colored the perceptions of early colonial administrators in America who believed that American Indians starved before the c...

In this paper we compare the performance of planning algorithms distinguishing and iterating between observation (diagnosis) and repair (action) phases with algorithms extending conventional planning methods with observations using n-step look ahead. Diagnosis and repair iteration planning algorithms are an extension of earlier work of Friedrich and Nejdl, n-step look ahead planning including d...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a discriminant function that predicts risk of pathogenic eating in comparison with a standard self report measure (EAT) and a clinical interview. In addition, to determine the effectiveness of this discriminant function using a variety of collegiate athletes. METHODS A total of 319 participants were asked to complete a series of self report measures...

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Chronic pelvic pain is a common gynecologic complaint, affecting about 5% of American women. The differential diagnosis is broad, including many medical diseases, surgical indications, musculoskeletal problems, and somatic dysfunction. Women are more affected than men by pelvic pain because their bodies are subject to more changes. These changes include a cyclic hormonal milieu, major alteratio...

Effects of early extended child care on children’s functioning from age one year through the end of year six were examined in the Japan Child Care Cohort Study. This longitudinal project sought to assess the developmental and adaptation effects on children. Parents completed a survey on the childrearing environment at home, their feelings of self-efficacy, and the available support for childcar...

This paper highlights the content of a course designed to prepare students for family practice, with emphasis on mothers as primary caregivers. A model is presented of relatively healthy family interactions characterized by co-parenting and equitable division of labor in the home. The strengths perspective is applied to family practice with mother-headed families where noncustodial fathers shar...

This article frames the history of anticolonialism in Arab world as a gender, sex, and power. By thinking with early twentieth-century intellectuals, it revises assumption that heterosexual body enters into politics primarily site regulation control. Europeans justified colonialism East by arguing Arabs were like children who needed tutelage before self-rule. writers contested these temporal as...