Metadiscourse features are those facets of a text, which make the organization of the text explicit, provide information about the writer's attitude toward the text content, and engage the reader in the interaction. This study interpreted metadiscourse markers in translated and non-translated persuasive texts. To this end, the researcher chose the translated versions of one of the leading newsp...

HD (Huntington's disease) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the gene encoding the huntingtin protein. Presently, there is no known cure for HD and existing symptomatic treatments are limited. However, recent advances have identified multiple pathological mechanisms involved in HD, some of which have now become the focus of therapeutic interventio...

The SISFRANCE database aims to collect and interpret archives relating the historical seismicity in metropolitan France. presently contains some 12,500 documents that allow define 108,832 macroseismic data points, for a total of 6427 events, which 5743 can be qualified as real earthquakes. Although half these events are will probably remain poorly known, completing our knowledge earthquakes rem...

the arabic word “wadi”, which was clearly understood by the arab nomads, had not been used in the ancient persian texts. the first uses of this word in the persian works go back to late third century after hijrah, when the translators had to find equivalents for ten qur’anic usages of the word. the present research aims to study which equivalents were employed in different periods for this word...