and Full-text Screening Criteria For each question, we developed fairly detailed instructions and decision rules for the screeners’ reference. There were very broad inclusion requirements for abstracts: MS study subjects and potential relevance to any of the five questions. For the full-text screening, screeners were asked to record their include/exclude decision, research question assignment, ...

This article aims to analyze how agreement regarding the central unit (macrostructure) influences agreement when establishing rhetorical relations (microstructure). To do so, the authors conducted an empirical study of abstracts from research articles in three domains (medicine, terminology, and science) in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). The results help to establish a new ...

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius, Bioline International , African Journals online Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com http://www.bioline.br/md http://www.ajol.com Received: February 2008 Accepted (Revised): June 2008 Published September 2008 Full Length Research Article The Association ...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...

This short article provides a brief description of the main issues that underly the study of property testing. It is meant to serve as a general introduction to a collection of surveys and extended abstracts that cover various specific subareas and research directions in property

Scopus is a well known repository of metadata about scientific research articles. In this work, we gather data from this repository to create a social graph of scientific authors, starting from citations among their articles. Moreover, using data mining techniques, we infer some relevant research topics for each author, from the textual analysis of the abstracts of his articles. As a case study...