Abstract: (1993). Differences in Positive and Negative Connotations of Nicknames and Given Names. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 133, No. 5, pp. 737-739.

Abstract: The translation is an intellectual work that implies the communication between generations and cultures and occupies an important place that in just few occasions it is recognized. The particular case of the scientific translation acquires a special connotation in countries like Cuba.

Abstract: Abstract This chapter will examine the virtue of integrity and its subsidiary, intellectual honesty, in light of the many dangers of compromise that occur, especially in biomedical research. Integrity, by its very connotation, defines for us the nature of the individual who integrates all of the virtues. To say that someone possesses integrity is to claim that that person is almost predictable about responses to specific situations, that he or she can integrate all the virtues into a whole and can prudentially judge the relative importance in each situation of principles, rules, guidelines, precepts, and the other virtues in reaching a decision to act. Clearly, a virtuous physician and a virtuous patient, working in a concert of interests that is the doctor patient relationship, must possess this virtue to bring about the healing aim of the relationship.

Abstract: The accumulation of years brings with it a variety of changes. Some changes are qualitative, such as the special love that only grandparents can provide for children. Other changes are quantitative, like the accrual of wisdom. But in the realm of medicine, aging tends to take on a shadowy connotation. Here, the alterations that occur are limiting, and the best that can be done is to hold one’s own.

Abstract: In the epigraph of the paper, Aristotle reminds us that confusion and inconsistency arise when people attach more than one meaning to any particular term (“name”). It seems that Aristotle could not have better described the situation with the connotation of Jewishness in the contemporary world.

Abstract: Announcing a case study on the “culture of manufacturing” is a challenging claim — neither is the term yet satisfactorily defined, nor is it a self-explanatory constant entity which would simply need some illustration. Denomination, exemplification and comparison will therefore have to be carried out simultaneously to convey some feeling for the complex interdisciplinary connotation of the “culture” of manufacturing on the theoretical level, and this discussion supported with some practical characterizations of important features as well as of some peculiarities of individual production styles.

Abstract: We hold many different beliefs and values which are generally shared by the culture we are part of (or families of origin that matter) which are accepted as if they were basic truths, rarely acknowledged, discussed or questioned. This applies to everyone, ourselves as therapists as well as the families with whom we work. This paper considers some aspects of systems theory which can incorporate the wider cultural context with particular reference to developing a gender-sensitive approach in therapy. I will briefly discuss the concept of circularity, power relations and the practical tools of circular questions, reframing and positive connotation

Abstract: Abstract The word regret has refashioned itself over time. An all-but-archaic use of the term emphasized losing someone or something dear, as in Shelley’s “that fair lady whom I regret.” Though this usage flowers in nineteenth-century novels by Jane Austen and others, I have never heard the term used in this way in contemporary colloquial speech. The former meaning of regret has been largely taken over by nouns like nostalgiaI and verbs like miss or long for. Shelley’s “that fair lady whom I regret” would today read “that fine woman whom I miss.11 The romantic, bittersweet connotation of regret seems to have drifted to an unromantic, simply bitter, emphasis on gaining something unpleasant. The modern sense of regret hauls a heavier load of pathology-an emotional tone and a stance that de­ sires distance from the past. The semantic drift of the word regret supports the idea developed in the previous chapter that part of our modern quarrel with regret concerns our quarrel with the past.

Abstract: Abstract In 25 BC the possessions of Amyntas were annexed to the Roman empire, and the province of Galatia was created.1 During the preceding two centuries Rome had acquired new territory in a host of different circumstances. There were wide vicissitudes in the forms of provincial administration, and the term provincia itself could convey a broad spectrum of meanings in different contexts, ranging from the purview and responsibilities of a Roman magistrate, devoid of any geographical connotation, to the precise topical definition of the area where those responsibilities were undertaken, that is a province in the modern sense of the word.