VOLUME 18 • 2019
NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS IN PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: DATA-DRIVEN CUSTOMIZED TREATMENTS AND LIFESTYLE-BASED DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION
ABSTRACT. Despite the relevance of nutritional genomics in personalized medicine, only limited research has been conducted on this topic. Using and replicating data from ABS, CCHS, CRN, Euromonitor International, Ipsos Public Affairs, Mintel, and Statista, I performed analyses and made estimates reg..
SELF-PORTRAITS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: MEANS OF COMMUNICATING EMOTION THROUGH VISUAL CONTENT-SHARING APPLICATIONS
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine means of communicating emotion through visual content-sharing applications. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Georgia Institute of Technology, Mashable, Pew Research Center, Suggestme, Statista, and TechInfographics,..
ALGORITHMIC TEXTUAL PRACTICES: IMPROVING FLUENCY AND WORD ORDER IN NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION OUTPUT
ABSTRACT. This research investigates how to improve fluency and word order in neural machine translation output. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from the Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, eMarketer, Locaria, MIT Sloan Management Review, NCSC, and Statista, I performed analyses and..
ARE THE WORKERS IN THE ON-DEMAND ECONOMY EMPLOYEES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, OR A HYBRID CATEGORY?
ABSTRACT. This article reviews and advances existing literature concerning whether the workers in the on-demand economy are employees, independent contractors, or a hybrid category. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Edelman Intelligence, Elance-oDesk,..
ORGANIZATIONAL RULES IN INTERPRETER-MEDIATED POLICE INTERVIEWS
ABSTRACT. This research synthesizes existing studies and investigates organizational rules in interpreter-mediated police interviews. Using data from Pew Research Center, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding percentage of officers saying it is very/somewhat/not too/not at all important ..
EXPRESSIVE CONTENT AND SPEAKER-DEPENDENCE
ABSTRACT. Expressives are lexical items which encode attitudes. Original semantic theories for expressives assumed that this attitude was always the speaker’s, however, a number of apparent counter-examples have motived recent theorists to endorse the view that expressives can be shifted to non-spea..
A MISCONCEPTION OF LOGIC IN ITS DIFFUSION ACROSS NON-MATHEMATICAL ENVIRONMENTS: THE EMBARRASSING MISTAKE OF RELYING ON NATURAL LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. In this paper we criticize a widespread practice in the teaching, use, and dissemination of first-order logic in non-mathematical environments. This practice consists in the presentation of the truth-conditions of logical formulas by means of sentences in natural language – e.g., if ‘s’ re..
QUINE AND CHOMSKY: RULES AND DISPOSITIONS
ABSTRACT. It has been 40 years since Quine has offered his critique of Chomskian Linguistics in his “Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory.” The general consensus is that Quine’s methodological arguments have failed and been adequately answered by Chomsky. In this paper I will revi..
ON LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT: A QUESTION OF FORM
ABSTRACT. The literature on the relationship between language and thought is immense, but it is not always clear what phenomenon exactly most publications are in fact examining – or whether the various studies are even compatible. This is mainly due to two interrelated reasons: the interested schola..
PREDICTIVE ILLOCUTIONS AND CONVERSATIONAL SCORES
ABSTRACT. The article argues for an illocutionary distinction between predictions and what will be classed as prospections. It provides a critical examination of the notion of prediction and its standard definition in speech act theory. In light of some counterexamples, and after suggesting some ame..