The medical domain has an abundance of textual resources of varying quality. The quality of medical articles depends largely on their publication types. However, identifying high-quality medical articles from search results is till date a manual and time-consuming process. We present a simple, rule-based, post-retrieval approach to automatically identify medical articles belonging to three high...

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dental status may influence food intake. the aim of this review was to summarize the earlier investigations on the association between food intake and dental status. we searched the electronic databases of pubmed and the cochrane library for articles published until 30 february, 2012. to reach the related published articles, medical subject heading (mesh) terms of ‘oral health,’ ‘masticatory pe...

The aim of the current study was to investigate frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in English academic research and popular science articles in nutrition. A total of 60 English articles published in three popular databases and four academic journals were analyzed for interactional metadiscourse markers, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-me...

Summary Background and objectives Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), a frequent cause of end-stage renal disease, has no cure. V2-specific vasopressin receptor antagonists delay disease progression in animal models. Design, setting, participants, and measurements This is a prospectively designed analysis of annual total kidney volume (TKV) and thrice annual estimated GFR (eGF...

The three articles for week 5 all deal with business-to-consumer electronic commerce. B2C e-commerce represents the most visible part of e-commerce, and it has forever changed the way many people shop. Most people enjoy the convenience and time saving resulted from online shopping. One recent study found that the more time-starving a consumer is, the more likely he or she will shop online. Othe...