Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...

Ttiic greater the man the greater are his potentialities for good or for evil, and in many instances for both good and evil. The influence of many great men lias been during their lifttime almost entirely good, yet much harm has been done in their names through the unreasoning hero-worship of posterity. For fifteen hundred years, commencing from the second century of the Christian era, the teac...

The much-agitated question respecting this man's moral and legal responsibility has been determinately and irrevocabty settled by the public executioner! William Dove was hanged on the 8th of August. On the evening of the 1st of August the editor of this journal had a lengthened interview with Mr. Barret, Dove s solicitor, and Mr. Morley, one of the witnesses for the Crown. Mr. Morley was only ...

j This is one of the 11 Masters of Medicine" series, the introductory volume of which we reviewed in March. Everything as been done to make the record of the life of this truly great ^>an as complete as possible ; and although the material at the author's disposal was somewhat scanty, yet we have a consecutive and very readable biography supplemented by wellhosen extracts from Harvey's works. T...

"The idea that phthisis is a self-propagated zymotic disease, and that all the leading phenomena of its distribution may be explained by supposing that it is disseminated through society by specific germs contained in the tuberculous matter cast off by persons already suffering from the disease, first came to my mind, unbidden, so to speak, while I was walking on the Observatory Hill at Clifton...

This paper acknowledges the effort of government agencies, health organizations and concern groups in Nigeria to bring lasting solution to HIV/AIDS pandemic in the Nation. Among others, there has been a lot of investment in massive education campaign on HIV/AIDS, prevention of mother to child transmission, increasing availability of drugs and accessibility to treatment, computerized patient dat...

There exists an intricate network of proteins that continuously monitor each phase of the cell cycle to ensure proper replication. This network of proteins, termed checkpoints, first detects cellular abnormalities, and then coordinates their repair before the cell divides. The malfunction of these checkpoints often results in the proliferation of potentially damaged cells, and thus a tremendous...

In offering a few observations in reference to one who 1ms so recently been amongst us, were we for a moment to permit personal feelings to influence the discharge of public duties, we should rest satisfied with recounting to the profession instances of the gentle nature, land disposition, and great personal worth of him whose lamentable death we, in common with all who had the privilege of his...