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from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

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The good name of TEX One of the many wonderful things about TEX is that its behaviour is essentially the same, no matter where it runs. TEX is a fixed point, identical on all machines. The same goes for METAFONT and the Computer Modern fonts. The author of TEX, Donald Knuth, has made it perfectly clear that he does not object to anyone revising TEX(or METAFONT) just as long as the resulting pro...

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Gary W. Miller Connectivity mapping to group chemicals using mode of action: The 2007 US National Research Council report “Toxicology Testing in the 21 Century” called for a shift in toxicology testing from a focus on apical outcomes in animals to an approach based on a mechanistic understanding in humans. In support of this, various terminologies have emerged, which evolve the existing mode of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Risk factors for death from asthma

Guite and colleagues recently attempted to identify risk factors for certain causes of death among patients admitted to hospital with asthma. The data were originally collected for a diVerent purpose, however, and problems of data quality and completeness limit the conclusions that can be drawn from this analysis. The current study is based on follow up of 2242 (68%) of the original cohort of 3...