In the biomedical field, calls for the generation of new regulations or for the amendment of existing regulations often follow the emergence of apparently new research practices (such as embryonic stem cell research), clinical practices (such as facial transplantation) and entities (such as Avian Influenza/'Bird Flu'). Calls for regulatory responses also arise as a result of controversies which...

Syncretism will never be a word used at the dinner tables of wh?nau (family) or marae (M?ori communal gathering places) for it is ingrained in specifically theological world. However, concept behind something with which M?ori are very familiar because we do automatically. We walk and P?keh? (New Zealanders predominantly European ancestry) worlds our spirituality comes us. navigate, negotiate tr...

I argue that patterns of case syncretism across languages can be modelled by partially, rather than totally, ordered hierarchies. Partially hierarchies avoid the need for postulating multiple instances same while retaining contiguity in representation syncretism. discuss data from three which differential object marking is syncretic with dative and show partially capture these other line some c...

1 Introduction The familiar paradigm of Latin first declension nouns in (1) illustrates case syncretism: although at least five cases are recognised, neither the singular nor the plural has five distinct forms: in the singular the genitive and dative are identical, and in the plural the dative and ablative are identical.

Ethnic origins, religions, and languages are the major sources of cultural diversity. India is a country incredible for its diversity; biological and cultural. However, the process of synthesis and integration has been extensively at work in most parts of India. Indeed ethnic identities and even the culture traits of Indian people have never been frozen in time or in space, they have been in st...