NORMATIVITY AND THE REALIST STANCE IN SEMANTICS

Normativity and the Realist Stance in Semantics

Recent Cutlery Trays attempts to define and support realism in semantics seem to acknowledge, as the only defence from skeptical attacks to the notion of meaning, a flat acceptance of the existence of representational relations between language and things in the world.In this paper I reconsider part of the mistrust about the normative character of

read more

The Relevant Approaches for Aligning Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon-nanotube (CNT) is a promising material owing to its compelling mechanical, thermal and electrical properties and has been applied in a broad variety of fields such as composite, fiber, film and microelectronic.Although the introductions of CNT have brought huge improvement for many applications, these properties of macrostructures prepared b

read more

Heavy Metal Poisoning and Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an increasing world health problem.Traditional risk factors fail to account for all deaths from CVD.It is mainly the environmental, dietary and lifestyle behavioral factors that are the control keys in the progress of this disease.The potential association between chronic heavy metal exposure, like arsenic, lead, cad

read more

A Statistical Learning Approach to Evaluate Factors Associated With Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Physicians: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Physicians facing the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to experience Refrigerated acute and chronic, and often unpredictable, occupational stressors that can incur post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), prevention of which is of utmost importance to enhance healthcare workforce efficiency.Unlike previous studies, in this paper we developed a generalize

read more