Blinkard. Dunderheaded. Nescient. Sometimes you need a new way to call something 'stupid.' Here are eight better ways.
The term Klinefelter syndrome (KS) describes a group of chromosomal disorder in which there is at least one extra X chromosome to a normal male karyotype, 46,XY. XXY aneuploidy is the most common disorder of sex chromosomes in humans, with prevalence of one in 500 males. Other sex chromosom...
The grammatical problems revolved around the metaconcept of valency (also covering the traditional phrases and parts of speech related to valency), although the term valency was never explicitly used. Instead, the questions were designed in such a way that they could be answered by anyone who ...
施特劳斯认为,政治哲学是哲学的组成部分或一个分支:“哲学”表示处理的方式,本根的和整全的;“政治的”既表示主题又表示功能。(By calling this pursuit political philosophy, we imply that it forms a part of a larger whole: of philosophy; or that political philosophy is a branch of philosophy. In the...
Cats used to be characterized as independent animals who do not need contact with other animals or humans. Dogs, on the other hand, previously were thought of as animals who are devoted to other animals and humans. When experiments on feline and canine behavior are examined, however, what was...
WATCH:What Is The Origin Of The Term "Nymphomaniac" Spinster, for instance, is an offensive term for “a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marriage,” but we don’t have a similar insult to describe an unmarried man. In the 1300s,spinstersimply meant “a woman who spins”...
Epigenetics refers to short- and long-term gene expression variations that are caused by non-DNA-encoded mechanisms.30,31These mechanisms include DNA methylation or hydroxymethylation, chemical changes occurring on histone proteins (histone modification), expression of noncoding RNAs, chromatin remodeling,...
A Rose by Any Other Name: Long-Term Memory Structure and Sentence Processing The effects of sentential context and semantic memory structure during on-line sentence processing were examined by recording event-related brain potential... KD Federmeier,M Kutas - 《Journal of Memory & Language》 被引...
preferences in pet dogs received: 01 July 2015 accepted: 11 November 2015 Published: 16 December 2015 Mylene Quervel-Chaumette1,*, Rachel Dale1,2,*, Sarah Marshall-Pescini1,2 & Friederike Range1,2 Other-regarding preferences are considered to be the foundation of human cooperation....
American writer Upton Sinclair is partially responsible for the modern understanding of the term "white-collar," having used the phrase in conjunction withadministrative work.1The differences in connotation between white-collar and blue-collar have much more to say about the way we perceive the serv...