Empirical research on the identification of singular,multiple and subordinate argumentation

To examine to what degree argumentation skills are mastered by pupils who attend the vocational, general and academic streams in Dutch secondary education various subtests were constructed. The theoretical study of argumentation as exposed by Van Eemeren and Grootendorst was the basis for this test construction. In this article tests for the identification of singular, multiple and subordinate argumentation are described. Also an account is given of a pretest of these three subtests.     

The ventromedial hypothalamus and aggressive behaviour in rats

Male rats were given bilateral lesions in either the anterior or posterior ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH). The intermale aggressive behaviour of these animals within their own territory was observed before and after the surgical procedure and compared with the behaviour of sham-operated animals. The effects of anterior VMH lesions include an increased tendency to respond with frontal threatening upon approach of a conspecific male. This behaviour closely resembles the aggressive responses described in “shock-induced aggression” tests. Posterior VMH lesions facilitate territorial aggressive behaviour characterized by approaching the opponent followed by lateral threatening and fighting. It is suggested that 2 distinct neural substrates exist, which serve to inhibit defensive (anterior-VMH) and offensive (posterior-VMH) intermale aggression, respectively.     

Tolerant enactivist cognitive science

Enactivist (Embodied, Embedded, etc.) approaches in cognitive science and philosophy of mind are sometimes, though not always, conjoined with an anti-representational commitment. A weaker anti-representational claim is that ascribing representational content to internal/sub-personal processes is not compulsory when giving psychological explanations. A stronger anti-representational claim is that the very idea of ascribing representational content to internal, sub-personal processes is a theoretical confusion. This paper criticises some of the arguments made by Hutto and Myin (2013, 2017) for the stronger anti-representational claim and suggests that the default Enactivist view should be the weaker non-representational position.     

Sea for the landlocked: a sustainable development goal?

Outside Europe landlocked states are poor: 16 are extremely poor and another 16 very poor. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise their lack of sea-access as a major cause of their reduced chances of escaping poverty and reaching the stated goals. This paper proposes including corridors to the sea and other forms of sea-access among the SDGs. It also discusses objections to doing so that appeal to the rejection of global egalitarian arguments, to the possibility of compensating those countries for their disadvantage rather than removing it, and to the territorial rights of the coastal countries. The paper concludes that none of these objections to the corridors, and a fortiori to the less ambitious remedies of the Almaty and Vienna Programmes, withstands scrutiny.     

医患冲突与诚信的缺失

在新的历史条件下,医患冲突表现出更为复杂的特点,从深层次研究医患冲突的原因,诚信的缺失往往被人们所忽视.多数医疗纠纷源于医患双方缺乏诚信,以自我为中心,过分强调经济利益,缺少人文关怀.必须加强诚信道德教育,建立健全信用法律制度,使诚实守信成为人人自我约束、自觉遵守的行为规范.     

关于“职业医闹”现象的法律思考

医疗纠纷中患方放弃法律途径而选择雇请“职业医闹”的非法律途径维权的现象日益普遍,严重扰乱了医疗秩序,进一步激化了医患矛盾。鉴于此,拟通过从法律层面上深入分析“职业医闹”产生的根本原因,积极寻求根治“职业医闹”的法律对策,以让患方维权回归法律途径。     

误诊误治病例所致医疗纠纷分析——附3例报告

当前医疗科技发展的相对性、疾病规律本身的复杂多变性、医生医疗知识的局限性等,导致了临床误诊误治的不可避免性,而医院发生的医疗纠纷事件中,大多是由于误诊误治所致。通过对3例误诊病例及所致医疗纠纷的分析,指出临床误诊误治的客观性、主观性及不可避免性。同时提示临床医师在疾病诊治过程中,随时更新医疗知识,注意疾病的鉴别诊断,及时完善相关的辅助检查,积极治疗,减少对疾病的延误诊治,减轻病人痛苦,改善医患关系,从而减少医疗纠纷。     

传媒介入医患纠纷的原因及作用探析

探讨传媒介入医患纠纷的原因及作用。经过分析发现,竞争的需要、经济的需要和受众的需要是传媒介入医患纠纷的主要动机和原因。总体而言,对传媒介入医患纠纷应持肯定态度。它在将医患矛盾进行公开化,唤起公众对医患纠纷问题的重视,提升公众参与意识,以及促进解决结果的公平性与公正性等方面发挥了积极作用。     

医疗文书签字扩大化失去意义的原因分析

随着近年医患关系的紧张,越来越多的医疗工作需要履行签字手续,呈现了签字扩大化的态势。签字扩大化是防御性医疗的一种表现形式,但并未带来医疗纠纷减少,也不是医疗纠纷产生的主要原因,又给医疗工作增加了繁琐程度,而且并未达到知情同意的内涵。所以,签字扩大化失去了其应有的意义。     

Jolly fat rats? The effects of diet-induced obesity on territorial fighting

In experiment 1, pairs of young male rats became obese on a palatable and complex diet high in fat, sucrose, and protein. The obese pairs exhibited greater within-group weight variability and, when tested as adults, were significantly more aggressive toward an unfamiliar conspecific than chow-fed controls. The increased aggressivity of obese males was not due to the relatively larger resident-intruder weight disparities in these pairs, since weight-matched pairs of unfamiliar animals were as aggressive toward each other as pairs not matched in body weight (experiment 2). The complex and calorically dense diet may have accelerated the development of the experimental animals, producing subjects whose aggressivity was comparable to that of much older animals.