for UCL, 27 November, 2013 Are all opposites equal – or are some more equal than others? Carita Paradis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University At the one extreme, antonyms show up as strongly associated pairs such as long–short, heavy–light, hot–cold and good–bad along the dimensions of LENGTH, WEIGHT, TEMPERATURE and MERIT, respectively, While other pairs appear to be less obvio...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the potential years of life lost by road traffic injuries three years after the beginning of the Decade of Action for Traffic Safety. METHODS We analyzed the data of the Sistema de Informações sobre Mortalidade (SIM - Mortality Information System) related to road traffic injuries, in 2013. We estimated the crude and standardized mortality rates for Brazil and geographic ...

have been unable to depict satisfactorily his multi-sided and often contradictory personality. Professor Paradis' study attempts a reconstruction of Huxley's intellectual biography within the context of "Victorian culture". Therefore his book does not deal with the "internal" minutiae of Huxley's scientific work, but endeavours to outline his views of the relations involving science, philosophy...