Abstracts in research articles play a crucial role settling the impact of academic articles. However, despite abundance on discourse, variation its linguistic features among scholars from different cultures seems to have remained untouched. This corpus linguistics study presents comparative analysis interactional metadiscourse markers 96 article abstracts written English by both Russian and Spa...

Arguably, the Moroccan academic writing stratosphere has long been understudied. Such oversight is particularly discerning given how beneficial these studies can be for L2 writers of English. To this end, using Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse framework, current research interactional practices in a small corpus 15 applied linguistics article abstracts. These were collected from two Moroccan-based...

This paper investigates engagement resources employed in research article abstracts the field of English for Specific Purposes. Engagement comprise rhetorical strategies by which authors allow or dismiss alternative viewpoints. Excluding dialogic space opinions is termed contraction, while opening up possibility alternatives expansion. These are described within Appraisal theory Systemic Functi...

Review Specific inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied at each of the levels of review, with criteria becoming more stringent as the process moved from searching, to the review of titles, to the review of abstracts, and to the review of articles. After identifying a title as potentially relevant, two team members independently reviewed the abstract of the citation, and articles were incl...

Review The titles and abstracts of all identified articles were reviewed by two study investigators. We excluded articles that were not written in English, published before 1980, did not include human data or original data, did not have a full article available for review, were not relevant to minority health, did not have a cultural competence intervention, did not target health care providers...

Natural language processing for biomedical text currently focuses mostly on entity and relation extraction. These entities and relations are usually pre-specified entities, e.g., proteins, and pre-specified relations, e.g., inhibit relations. A shallow parser that captures the relations between noun phrases automatically from free text has been developed and evaluated. It uses heuristics and a ...

s identified through the literature search were screened using eligibility criteria defined to include all English language primary experimental studies that evaluated the impact of omega-3 fatty acids on arrhythmia, intermediate mechanisms of arrhythmia, and electrogenesis. Reports published only as letters or abstracts were excluded. Articles associated with abstracts that passed these screen...

submissions for oral or poster presentation are welcome. Deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2013. Duration of oral presentation: talk: 15 min discussion: 5 min The official meeting language is English. Best Abstract Prize Competition Prizes are awarded for the best five abstracts presented at the Brain Tumor 2013 meeting. 1. prize IPad 2. prize IPad mini 3. prize Ipod touch 64G 4. pri...

background: reporting quality of research on medical education has come under scrutiny in recent years in wake of empirical evidence. poor reporting quality of published abstracts may distract readers from careful reading of research evidence or in a worst case mislead scientists. main objective of this study was to evaluate the extent and quality of the submitted abstracts to the 3rd and 4th n...