Prioritized bases, i.e., weakly ordered sets of sentences, have been used for specifying an agent’s ‘basic’ or ‘explicit’ beliefs, or alternatively for compactly encoding an agent’s belief state without the claim that the elements of a base are in any sense basic. This paper focuses on the second interpretation and shows how a shifting of priorities in prioritized bases can be used for a simple...

In his twenty-seven year reign (1978-2005), Pope John Paul II created not only more saints than any other pope in history, but also more saints than all the other popes put together since Pope Urban VIII centralised control of saint-making in 1634. This article argues that the elevation of ‘celebrity saints’, such as Padre Pio and Mother Theresa, can be seen as an attempt on the part of the Cat...

OBJECTIVE The present analysis evaluates the overall appreciation and implementation of an intervention, Project Tomato, designed to maintain fruit and vegetable intake in children aged 8-9 years. DESIGN A random sample of fifty-four English primary schools (658 children) were randomised to either the intervention group or the control. The intervention group received a multi-component program...

Eighty-three isolates of Staphylococcus aureus for which MICs of methicillin of 4-16 mg/L had previously been recorded were tested for the presence of the mecA gene with a DNA probe and a PCR assay. There was complete agreement between the results obtained by these methods; 39 isolates were mecA-positive and 44 were mecA-negative. Using the presence of mecA as the defining standard, several phe...

The intention of this paper is to provide an analysis of variables that could affect the adoption of HL7 message standard. Based on the review of 33 cases where HL7 was successfully implemented the authors present relevant evidence related to inherent limitation of HL7. The result from this study indicates that it is necessary to enhance the standard to overcome particular limitations and facil...

OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which adolescents with diabetes and their mothers appraise diabetes as a shared entity across adolescence through (a) assessing appraisals of illness ownership and their relationship to joint responsibility for daily diabetes tasks, (b) exploring whether appraisals of shared illness ownership are associated with congruent views of what is stressful about diabet...

Nurses have assumed management positions in many health institutions. To properly accomplish the demands of this role, it is important that they be competent in both management and leadership. For appropriate performance, knowledge of management and supervision styles is a priority. Therefore, the goal of this investigation is to identify the nurse manager's knowledge regarding management and l...

Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.60 quotes the comic writer Damoxenus, Syntrophoi [14, p. 215]: What are akin By octaves, fifths, or fourths I weave all in At the proper ‘intervals’ and suitably To their ‘resolution.’ octave: διὰ πασῶν, “through all”, “through the whole”, e.g. 2 Corinthians 8:18. fifth: διὰ πεντε, fourth: διὰ τεττάρον. intervals: διαστήματα. A διάστημα is an interval, extent, exten...

Rincewind was in his new office, filing rocks. He'd worked out quite a good system, based on size, shape, colour and twenty-seven other qualities including whether or not he felt that it was a friendly sort of rock.

The aim of the present study was to show that space perception depends on sensori-motor experience. We induced spatial biases by a non-conflictual lateralized sensori-motor task on twenty seven right-handed healthy volunteers (left-to-right readers). After a pre-test and before a post-test, which assessed visuo-motor and perceptual subjective midpoint in line bisection, participants performed a...