in the tradition of philosophy prime matter has been often accepted as a genuine aristotelian concept. however, this has been doubted by some modern scholars. the dispute is mainly whether aristotle committed to prime matter or not. on the other hand, some scholars still endorse prime matter as a part of aristotle’s philosophy. prime matter is tied up to the problem of generation. generation, i...

Do self-monitoring accounts, a dominant account of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, explain auditory verbal hallucination? In this essay, I argue that the account fails to answer crucial questions any explanation of auditory verbal hallucination must address. Where the account provides a plausible answer, I make the case for an alternative explanation: auditory verbal hallucination is no...

Danish has a verbal system much like the English one in which each auxiliary determines the inflection of the following verbal element. In (1a), for instance, the modal m̊a (must) requires the following auxiliary, perfect have (have), to appear in the infinitival form and have requires gemme (hide) to appear in the past participle form. Any other forms of have and gemme are ungrammatical in (1a)...

patients and methods the study adopts a quasi-experimental research design. a total of 102 mothers of children presenting with febrile seizure and admitted to a teaching hospital in iran were equally assigned to three groups: group i received no intervention (control group), group ii received a febrile seizure information pamphlet, and group iii received the febrile seizure information pamphlet...

We present an extension of the CrossTalk system that allows to model emotional behaviour on three levels: scripting, processing and expression. CrossTalk is a self-explaining virtual character exhibition for public spaces. Its SceneMaker authoring suite provides authors with a screenplay-like language for scripting character and user interactions. This article presents an extension to the origi...