Concerning the Fifth Amendment, the Court has stated in dicta that the privilege against self-incrimination is available to witnesses in congressional investigations (58) despite the Amendment's express reference to persons "in any criminal case." (59) The Due Process Clause also applies to congressional investigations, mandating that "the
pertinency of the interrogation to the topic under the congressional committee's inquiry must be brought home to the witness at the time the questions are put to him." (60) Beyond the aforementioned constitutional limitations, however, courts are reluctant to apply procedural safeguards that are typically associated with judicial proceedings to the congressional context.
These researchers were the first to propose recall and
pertinency (later renamed as precision) as primary factors in the evaluation of database performance.
Dubois called it the first Afrikaans novel that was both "helemaal Afrikaans, [en] van intellectuele inzet en niveau helemaal 'europees'" ("completely Afrikaans, and completely European in terms of intellectual effort and level"); Greshoff praised Leroux's ability to free himself from the taboos and prejudices that had hindered the psychological novel hitherto; for Rob Antonissen, the "orakel van Grahamstad" ("oracle of Grahamstown"), Colet, demonstrating unprecedented
pertinency in the handling of sexual contents as well as "iets meesterliks" ("something masterly") in the stream-of-consciousness ending, was the only novel of 1955 that gave reason for "'n sekere hoop" ("a certain hope") in the future of the form in Afrikaans (Kannemeyer, Leroux 167-70).
Presence emerged as a key theme of discussion in both controversies because it was assumed that what is valued is that which will be given presence: "By the very fact of selecting certain elements and presenting them to the audience, their importance and
pertinency to the discussion are implied" (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca 1969, 116).
Landreth notes that this orthodoxy "did not begin to be challenged (by theories of population growth and industrial innovation) until the twentieth century." On the continuing
pertinency of this monetary explanation for early modern inflation, and its relation to other sorts of explanation, see Mayhew passim.
At the local setting, some studies are really needed to expand the
pertinency and accuracy of the results [18].
Further, class bias is inscribed within the very institutional ensemble of the state as a social relation of production which not only permits a radical critique of liberal ideology but also promotes interest in the class
pertinency and practices of the state as a strategic site of struggle (Poulantzas 1973: 63-4).