A generic analysis of research articles can cover a wide variety of issues; among them are rhetorical features. A crucial part of the rhetorical features of research article is the use of metadiscourse that can help to make the text persuasive and acceptable to a discourse community (Hyland, 2005). The underlying principle behind metadiscourse use is the view of writing as socially engaging: in...

Working-group members: Ilham Al Mahamid, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; John Bargar, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Sally Benson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Paul Bertsch, University of Georgia; Sharon Borglin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Susan Carroll, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Scott Chambers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Sing-Foong Ch...

Moggi and Hyland showed how to model various polymorphic A-calculi inside the effective topos and other rea~zability toposes; types are modelled by the so-called modest sets, which form an internal category Mod in the topos that is, in a certain sense, complete. Polymorphic types are modelled as products indexed by the object of modest sets. The same idea lets us model polymorphism in reflectiv...

Any configuration of lattice vectors gives rise to a hierarchy of higher-dimensional configurations which generalize the Lawrence construction in geometric combinatorics. We prove finiteness results for the Markov bases, Graver bases and facet posets of these configurations, and we discuss applications to the statistical theory of log-linear models.

Lawrence C. Katz died of melanoma on November 26, 2005, at the age of 48. He was amongst the most creative and influential neuroscientists of his time. His contributions were both scientific and personal, providing as much to the development of people as to scientific discovery. These affections were always inextricably intertwined, his love of scientific beauty and discovery, and his caring fo...

This school was founded by Sir Henry Lawrence in 1854, and has completed the eighteenth year of its existence. The objects of the institution are to provide a refuge from the debilitating effects of a tropical climate, and a plain, practical education and Christian training for the children and orphans of soldiers serving in Rajpootana and Western India. The report for the year 1871-72, which h...