This research investigates how professional authors construct their authorial identities in English articles (RAs). Sixty were selected from three disciplines, biology, linguistics, and medicine, published by native non-native reputable international journals. First-person references the analyzed qualitatively quantitatively with help of corpus linguistic methods to examine they used express, d...

neonatal unit; 18 of these infants had been born outside the hospital. While the overall survival rate was 47%, out of 17 normally formed infants born at 23-25 weeks' gestation only 2 (12%) survived. Both are so far neurodevelopmentally normal but one has severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia necessitating frequent admissions to hospital. The survival rate of 12% is in keeping with that of Professo...

the first international convention on maritime transportation is thebrussels’ convention of 1924. this convention was widely acceptedthroughout the world and; thus, lasted for a long time due to the widespreadsupport of the countries possessing fleet for this convention and the lack ofexistence of a legal document in terms of maritime transportation. thepassage of time together with innovations...

day surgery (also called ambulatory or outpatient surgery), the practice of performing surgery without an overnight hospital stay, is not new- indeed it can trace its origins back to the early 1900s- but it only really became popular from about the 1980s. north america, the united kingdom and northern europe were amongst some of the earliest advocates, but the practice has since spread far wide...

following a period of conflict between russia and the west, new signs of confrontation between the united states and china are observed. china as the most populous country in the world with the highest rate of economic growth at international level, china neither stands the hegemonic power of the united states nor has the intention of direct confrontation with it. in effect, china seeks to find...