Objective: In this clinical trial, we examined whether or not expressive writing as a psychological intervention reduces psychological distress in vitiligo patients receiving phototherapy.  Method: A total of 139 adult vitiligo patients were asked to complete the GHQ-28 in order to identify their psychiatric disturbances. The GHQ-28 scores showed that 78 patients (56.5%) had psychiatric...

The article deals with the study of poetics S. Beckett's play “Waiting for Godot”. This original and extremely capacious is minimalistic in form. secret capacity that, through four characters, Beckett showed human race miniature, modeling main types social private relationships: type equality (i.e., self-neighbor relationship) isrepresented by friends Vladimir Estragon, inequality/dependence re...

Abstract In relevance-theoretic pragmatics the lower-level or first-order explicature is a propositional form resulting from series of inferential developments logical form. It amounts to message speaker communicates explicitly. The higher-level second-order description speech act that performs, her affective attitude towards what she says epistemic stance communicated information. Information ...

It is known that the majority of the human genome consists of repeated sequences. Furthermore, it is believed that a significant part of the rest of the genome also originated from repeated sequences and has mutated to its current form. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of constructing an exponentially large number of sequences from a short initial sequence and simple replication ru...

Abstract Intuitively, a speaker who uses slurs to refer people is doing something morally objectionable even if no one measurably affected by their speech. Perhaps they are only talking themselves, or speaking with bigots already as vicious can be. This paper distinguishes between slurring an expressive act and the of causing psychological effect. It then develops expression-focused ethical acc...

Sequential, non-overlapping events are the norm in traditionally-expressed scenarios and use cases, but the world is much more fluid. Events have duration and may overlap, be separated in time, begin or end together, or have various other specific temporal relations. The ordering of the events may be completely known or partially uncertain, resulting in any of a large (but finite) number of rel...