With the Research Excellence Framework's (REF) impact imperative on one side, and outcries over the humanities' intrinsic value on the other, engagement debates are creating a frustrating (and self-fulfilling) dichotomy between the ivory tower and the "real world".
Treating fistula is a public health imperative, one that the United States Agency for International Development is addressing by providing $3 million to support surgical repair and rehabilitation in seven countries.
To achieve a competitive edge in an uncertain business environment where change is imperative, one of the significant challenges for an organization is to mitigate risk by creating resilient supply chains.
Diyya however, does present a powerful imperative, one to which the United States, for example, is not immune.
After 750 ms, the precue (hand cue: the two left vs. right plus signs, finger cue: the two inner vs. outer plus signs) replaced the warning stimulus for either 100 ms or 500 ms (preparation interval, equally distributed across trials), followed by the imperative stimulus (one of the two plus signs from the precue), which remained for 2,000 ms.
Its defeat is a tall order, but an imperative one if science is truly to be restored to its rightful place.
Functional programming languages were designed with referential transparency in mind, and they encourage a more declarative style of programming without the control statements and value assignments typically found in imperative ones.
It will take a generation of youngsters, raised on the likes of UML, before such "declarative" languages pose a significant threat to "imperative" ones.
When there is a DSL that matches the domain of a given problem, its use, in general, implies in reduction of the authoring time when compared to general-purpose languages [1], because one single DSL sentence can have an equivalent meaning to several imperative ones.
It's that the imperative to keep one's distance from emotional upheaval cuts lawyers off from the essence of human experience.
