Circumstantiation: taking a broader look at circumstantial meanings

Circumstantiation: taking a broader look at circumstantial meanings

This paper argues for a view of circumstantial meaning as a region of ideational meaning that is instantiated across a range of lexicogrammatical structures: from the rank of the clausal constituent of circumstance in both directions: up to clause rank and down to below or within constituent rank (eg as Qualifier). This paper brings together and extends the work of Halliday & Matthiessen (An In...

Taking a closer look at IBD.

Healthcare professionals caring for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) in 2013 are equipped with significantly better knowledge about the disease, its variations, course and complications than in years gone by. Treatment options are improving, and perhaps more importantly, our knowledge of when and how to use existing treatments is becoming sharper. For these reasons, we have deci...

Taking a close look at electrosensing

The brain of the brown ghost knifefish, which uses electric fields to "see", processes electrical signals in a way that is similar to how our brains interpret visual and auditory signals.

Taking a Fresh Look at ISIL

Taking a Long Look at QUIC

Google’s QUIC protocol, which implements TCP-like properties at the application layer atop a UDP transport, is now used by the vast majority of Chrome clients accessing Google properties but has no formal state machine specification, limited analysis, and ad-hoc evaluations based on snapshots of the protocol implementation in a small number of environments. Further frustrating attempts to evalu...