Compositional Strategies in Purcell’s Second Three-Part Fantazia

Part Three Competitive Sourcing Strategies

Part Three: from Interventions to Strategies

Cost-effectiveness of three strategies for second-line erlotinib initiation in nonsmall-cell lung cancer: the ERMETIC study part 3.

Several clinical and biological parameters are known to influence the efficacy of second-line erlotinib therapy for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but their medico-economic impact has not been evaluated. The objective of this study was to compare the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of strategies for second-line erlotinib initiation in NSCLC: clinically guided initiation (nonsmoking fe...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Composer attribution by quantifying compositional strategies

Taking a theory of musical style, developed by Leonard B. Meyer, as a starting point, an experiment is described in which statistical pattern recognition algorithms are used to characterize a particular musical style with respect to other styles. The resulting description can be used in authorship discussions. In the current study, a number of disputed organ works from the Bach catalog is used ...