* Edwin Black was a rhetorical critic best known for his book Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method ( 1965 ) in which he criticized the dominant " neo-Aristotelian " tradition in American rhetorical criticism as having little in common with Aristotle " besides some recurrent topics of discussion and a vaguely derivative view of rhetorical discourse.

In literary theory, structuralist criticism relates literary texts to a larger structure, which may be a particular genre, a range of intertextual connections, a model of a universal narrative structure, or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs.

The theme of tire pressures chosen for comfort rather than safety is recurrent, and the main theme throughout is the way in which the automobile industry evaded even well-founded and technically informed criticism.

One recurrent theme in Herriot's stories was Siegfried's criticism of James ' flaws, such as forgetting appointments or leaving tools behind after calls, only to find that Siegfried is found guilty of the same things.

These large institutional investors need to protect the long-term value of their investments from inflationary debasement of currency and market fluctuations, and provide recurrent cash flows to pay for retiree benefits in the short-medium term: from that perspective, think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council ( WPC ) have argued that infrastructure is an ideal asset class that provides tangible advantages such as long duration ( facilitating cash flow matching with long-term liabilities ), protection against inflation and statistical diversification ( low correlation with ‘ traditional ’ listed assets such as equity and fixed income investments ), thus reducing overall portfolio volatility.

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Another type of data that requires novel informatics development is the analysis of lesions found to be recurrent among many tumors

( The statement that Israel has a certain period of peace after each judge is a recurrent theme )

A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist middle way.

Recent research is exploring the link between sexual partner treatment and eradication of recurrent cases of BV.

Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments avoid the recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education.

Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.

Epilepsy is characterized by a long term risk of recurrent seizures.

On very poor soils, and especially where fire is a recurrent phenomenon, woody savannas develop ( see ' sparse trees and parkland ').

A recurrent source of conflict on Gamma World is the rivalry among the " Cryptic Alliances ", semi-secret societies whose ideological agendas — usually verging on monomania — often bring them into conflict with the rest of the Gamma World.

In mammals, the left recurrent laryngeal nerve is longer than the right ; in the giraffe it is over longer.

Recurrent mild hypoglycemia may fit a reactive hypoglycemia pattern, but this is also the peak age for idiopathic postprandial syndrome, and recurrent " spells " in this age group can be traced to orthostatic hypotension or hyperventilation as often as demonstrable hypoglycemia.

In cases of recurrent hypoglycemia with severe symptoms, the best method of excluding dangerous conditions is often a diagnostic fast.

Surgery ( thyroidectomy to remove the whole thyroid or a part of it ) is not extensively used because most common forms of hyperthyroidism are quite effectively treated by the radioactive iodine method, and because there is a risk of also removing the parathyroid glands, and of cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerve, making swallowing difficult, and even simply generalized staphylococcal infection as with any major surgery.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

a long civil war and recurrent drought in the hinterlands have resulted in increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences ; desertification ; pollution of surface and coastal waters ; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem

* The largest expenditure for Nevis, approximately 29 percent of the Nevis Island Administration's recurrent budget, is education and health services, but the Nevis Island Legislature has no power to legislate over these two areas.

RS Ophiuchi is part of a class called recurrent novae, whose brightness increase at irregular intervals by hundreds of times in a period of just a few days.

* Sexual Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting.

* Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activities, or who is engaging in activities usually considered to be of a private nature.

The algorithm will also find the minimal polynomial of a linearly recurrent sequence in an arbitrary field.

Notable past-presidents include Dr. Eamonn Quigley, the first Irish man to serve as president, and Dr. Christina Surawicz, the first woman president ( the " Sylvia Pankhurst " of gastroenterology and recurrent C. diff ) whose pioneering work for women in the field paved the way for Dr. Amy Foxx-Orenstein's presidency.

The patient's symptoms may resemble recurrent respiratory infections or asthma that does not respond to treatment.

# Assessing the child with recurrent throat infection who does not meet criteria in statement 2 for modifying factors that may nonetheless favor tonsillectomy, which may include but are not limited to multiple antibiotic allergy / intolerance, periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis, or history of peritonsillar abscess ;

According to sceptics, however, the test does not reliably predict recurrent violations.

It requires the state legislature to pass a balanced budget every year, which means that budgeted recurrent expenditure, including repayment of past debt, does not exceed estimated revenue.

Meningiomas are often considered benign tumors curable by surgery, but most recurrent meningiomas correspond to histologic benign tumors.

Like the random walk, the Wiener process is recurrent in one or two dimensions ( meaning that it returns almost surely to any fixed neighborhood of the origin infinitely often ) whereas it is not recurrent in dimensions three and higher.

The first type is diffusely recurrent ( mutawatir ) reports — those that have come down to later generations through a large number of chains of narration, involving diverse transmitters such that it is virtually impossible that all these people, living in different localities and espousing different views, would come together, fabricate exactly the same lie and attribute it to the Prophet of Islam or any other authority.

The return of the “ Macedonian syndrome ,” as Myron Weiner ( 1971 ) has called the intermingling of ethnic conflict and irredentist wars, explains such recurrent patterns of war much better than any variant of globalization theory.

More importantly, the use of any rule is associated with reduction in recurrent thromboembolism.

Truman would begin by subtracting from total receipts the amount needed for domestic needs and recurrent operating costs, with any surplus going to the defense budget for that year.

Eventually most people develop recurrent pneumonia, lack any type of endurance, and are unable to work productively.

Editorial practices reflect a recurrent theme of denying the legitimacy of any Korean rule except by Pyongyang:

Recurrent cancers are much harder to cure, with a higher recurrent rate with any methods of treatment.

# the periodic, or recurrent type that is characterized by an acute attack followed by full remission with minimal progression, if any ;

Regular follow-up care ensures that patients are carefully monitored, any changes in health are discussed, and new or recurrent cancer can be detected and treated as soon as possible.

The disorder is recurrent and chronic, and may appear at any age, although it is most common in people in their 60's.

Ketotic hypoglycemia is a medical term used in two ways: ( 1 ) broadly, to refer to any circumstance in which low blood glucose is accompanied by ketosis, and ( 2 ) in a much more restrictive way to refer to recurrent episodes of hypoglycemic symptoms with ketosis and, often, vomiting, in young children.

Most women will give a history of chronic recurrent UTIs but the cultures seem to not show any conventional bacterial growth, and pyuria ( more than 5 WBC per HPF ) is absent.

Intermittent explosive disorder or IED is a clinical condition of experiencing recurrent aggressive episodes that are out of proportion of any given stressor.

The weakness of any central authority was indicated by the recurrent civil wars before the Ngoni invasion.

* Serious bacterial infections, multiple or recurrent ( i. e., any combination of at least two culture-confirmed infections within a 2-year period ), of the following types: septicemia, pneumonia, meningitis, bone or joint infection, or abscess of an internal organ or body cavity ( excluding otitis media, superficial skin or mucosal abscesses, and indwelling catheter-related infections )