Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective

Fabricating Unease: Intertextuality,

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...

A Discourse-based Teaching of Writing for Iranian EFL Students: A Systemic Perspective

The writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain, 2000). The present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). To this end, 60 students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Lang...

A Systemic Control Model for Covid-19 Outbreak from a Safety Engineering Perspective

Reducing the consequences of the Covid 19 outbreak requires a systematic approach. The most effective way to prevent this disease is to cut off the virus transmission chain. In this letter, a systemic model for the management of the Covid 19 crisis is presented based on the bow-tie analysis model and the concept of Layers of Protection Analysis from the perspective of safety engineering. In thi...

Non - Suicidal Self - Injury : A Systemic Perspective

Metals in Alzheimer's disease: a systemic perspective.

Many results from in vitro and animal studies have highlighted the important role played by specific metals, such as copper, iron and zinc, in the diverse toxic pathways on which Alzheimer's disease (AD) develops. Metals seem to mediate the aggregation and neurotoxicity of amyloid-beta (ABeta), the main constituent of the amyloid plaques, commonly seen in AD (1). The link between metals and AD ...