Abstract The past few decades have witnessed an upsurge of scholarly interest in the generic descriptions PhD theses following Swales’ seminal Genre Analysis . Fitted within Create A Research Space (CARS) model, thesis introduction plays a key role justifying research originality/significance, where novice writers engage with academic communities through “establishing territory” (Move 1), niche...

The present study examines perceived prosodic highlights in three genres of fluent continuous Mandarin to test (1) whether prosodic highlights are genre related, (2) how they interact with discourse structure, (3) how they signal information status, (4) whether systematic acoustic patterns could be obtained from speech data analysis, and (5) whether prosodic highlights is layered over to discou...

This study investigates the phonetics of German nuclear rise-fall contours in relation to contexts that trigger either a contrastive or a non-contrastive interpretation in the answer. A rise-fall contour can be conceived of a tonal sequence of L-H-L. A production study elicited target sentences in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts. The majority of cases realized showed a nuclear rise-fal...

Caspase-3, one of the dominant effectors caspases, is activated in almost every model of apoptosis with various signaling pathways. Hence, inhibition of caspase-3 has become an attractive target in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Caspase-3 inhibitory activities of some 1,2-benzisothiazol-3-one derivatives were modeled by quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) using ste...

Caspase-3, one of the dominant effectors caspases, is activated in almost every model of apoptosis with various signaling pathways. Hence, inhibition of caspase-3 has become an attractive target in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Caspase-3 inhibitory activities of some 1,2-benzisothiazol-3-one derivatives were modeled by quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) using ste...

in the present work, the quantum theoretical calculations of the molecular structure of the 1-(1, 3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-3-(thiophene-5-carbonyl) thiourea has been predicted and are evaluated using density functional theory (dft) in gas phase. the geometry of the title compound was optimized by b3lyp/6-311+g and b3lyp/6-311+g* methods and the experimental geometrical parameters of the title compo...

This cross-disciplinary paper explores the ways in which writers promote their research articles highlights section of journals available online as a digital academic genre. A corpus from 300 was randomly selected two major domains knowledge, hard sciences and soft sciences. The contained texts fields (1) Chemistry (2) Computer Science representing (3) Linguistics (4) Management published reput...