Purpose: Predictive genetic testing is offered to asymptomatic adults even when there is no effective prophylaxis or treatment. Testing of young people in similar circumstances is controversial, and ...

What is a descriptive name? a name, company trademark, or logo that vividly describes what a company does or the product and services a company renders to people. A descriptive name is common ...

Describing stuff can be the hardest part of writing prose fiction. You have a scene in your head, with all the dialogue and action, but now you have to fill in what everything looks like. There’s ...

This paper defines descriptive, structural, and experimental empirical work, provides examples, discusses their similarities and differences, and comments on their strengths and weaknesses. An ...

For example, “Jazz is better than pop music,” “If you want to pass the exam you should study,” “Killing an innocent person is wrong.” The point here is to see that there is a difference between ...

A survey gathers information from a sample to construct quantitative statistics that describe the size and attributes of a larger population. For example, descriptive statistics can be used to ...

In this article originally published in 1975, Kerr employs descriptive examples to demonstrate how a reward system can often lead to different and even opposite results than intended.

Welcome to the Descriptive Grammars and Typology conference Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously ...