If we focus on ‘relevance’, the textual metafunction creates relevance by adding prominence through assigning relative value to parts of the clause (Matthiessen 1992). The Theme, for instance, functions to select meaning(s) from the clause (Hannay & Martínez Caro, 2008) and to assign them thematic prominence, which has consequences for the thematic development of the text (Fries, 1992) in contr...

This paper analyzes the effect of transaction costs on the social learning in an asset market with asymmetric information, sequential trading and competitive price mechanism. Both fixed and proportional transaction costs reduce the informational content of trading orders and lead to informational cascades. If transaction costs are very high, an informational cascade can occur not only when beli...

BACKGROUND Informational support to family members of ICU patients has significant potential for reducing their psychological distress, enabling them to better cope and support the patient. OBJECTIVES To describe family member perception of informational support, anxiety, satisfaction with care, and their interrelationships, to guide further refinement of a local informational support initiat...

For money-like informational commodities the notions of architectural adequacy and evolutionary adequacy are proposed as the first two stages of a moneyness maturity hierarchy. Then three classes of informational commodities are distinguished: exclusively informational commodities, strictly informational commodities, and ownable informational commodities. For each class money-like instances of ...

This paper presents a design method of decentralized systems with informational connection. The informational connection in this paper denotes a event link which establish a signal links among physical controlled plants via communication network. A dynamic transition of informational connection among decentralized systems is considered and the mathematical structures are discussed using a conce...

This study examined the contribution of mobile banking Informational Service on customer satisfaction. Three elements i.e., information service was assessed to find out role they play satisfaction at CRDB Chamwino Branch bank. The adopted a cross sectional survey design where data collected one point in time. In addition that, both qualitative as well quantitative approaches were employed colle...

This study addresses the pressing need for a deeper understanding of potential role WhatsApp in teaching and learning English context foreign language at university level. Specifically, this explores teachers' views on how can be integrated into process to support development skills performance. To achieve this, data was collected through semi-structured interviews from 30 teachers during secon...