Two kinds of dogmatism afflict the study of English grammar. They have more in common than is widely realized. On one side we have tradition-bound fundamentalists who take the rules to be clear and simple regulative principles laid down centuries ago by unquestionable authorities. On the other, we have theoretical linguists, who correctly take grammatical principles as a topic for discovery rat...

When my co-founders and I began BookSurge in 2000, it was an excellent time to dive into the publishing world, especially if you knew nothing about it. We had no previous publishing industry experience that would inform our view of how the company would operate. In this mindset, we asked ourselves: Why not be a publisher, printer, and retailer all at once? The slate was totally clean. I view Bi...

THEIR PROPERTIES ~ Harry H. Josselson Uriel Weinreich /I/~ in discussing the fact that at one time many American scholars relied on either the discipline of psychology or sociology for the resolution of semantic problems~ comments: In Soviet lexicology, it seems, neither the traditionalists~ who have been content to work with the categories of classical rhetoric and 19thcentury historical seman...

This paper documents a study into the challenges for mobile workers. The main goals of the study were, firstly, to identify the consequences and challenges of mobile work – particularly with respect one’s ability to stay up-to-date (“in sync”) and connected (“in touch”) with his or her distant colleagues; and secondly, to define guidelines to help target the design of potential solutions capabl...

he financial crises that swept across Asia and Russia in 1998 are reshaping the leadership politics of the former communist countries. In Russia, the financial crisis has marginalized President Boris Yeltsin and brought to the political forefront a previously disenfranchised coalition of traditionalists. Ukraine’s political leadership is leaning in the direction of Europe. The leaders of the co...

F aced with the conflicting pressures of accelerated product development and users who demand that increasingly vital systems be made ever more dependable, software development has been thrown into turmoil. Traditionalists advocate using extensive planning, codified processes, and rigorous reuse to make development an efficient and predictable activity that gradually matures toward perfection. ...

Evidence primarily from historical considerations is gathered to compare a variety of approaches to the teaching and learning of gross (topographical) human anatomy. The historical approach adopted is not just a chronological approach to the development of pedagogy but is conceptually based to underline the changing culture of medicine and the ways in which normal and abnormal structure and fun...

Purpose: School district superintendents say politics is the number one factor limiting their performance, yet research provides limited guidance on navigating the political dynamics of district improvement. State takeovers and district-wide turnaround efforts tend to involve particularly heated and polarized debates. Massachusetts’ 2012 takeover of the Lawrence Public Schools provides a rare c...

Replies to comments by M. Glassman and D. Karno and R. K. Unger, on the author's original article on ideology. J. T. Jost thanks Glassman and Karno for returning him to his philosophical roots. Glassman and Karno argued in favor of an "instrumental pragmatist" approach to the study of ideology that emphasizes the strategic, purposive, goal-directed nature of political rhetoric and belief. He ag...

Gender is an essential determinant of health and illness. Gender awareness in doctors contributes to equity and equality in health and aims towards better health for men and women. Nevertheless, gender has largely been ignored in medicine. First, it is stated that medicine was 'gender blind' by not considering gender whenever relevant. Secondly, medicine is said to be 'male biased' because the ...