Editorials written by a journal editor proved a glimpse of that individual's philosophy and opinions about topical events. The purpose of the present project was to analyze the editorials of Phyllis Noerager Stern during the years that she served as editor-in-chief of Health Care for Women International (1983-2001). Using ethnographic content analysis, 65 editorials were examined to ascertain: ...

The spectrum of nitrofurantoin lung injury continues to widen. The case histories are presented of two patients who developed lung disease associated with the use of nitrofurantoin with histological features of bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP), a rare but recognised form of drug induced injury. The two middle aged women presented with respiratory symptoms after prolonged tre...

The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper editorials (written in English and Persian) culled from 10 elite newspapers in America and Iran. Bas...

The widespread use of analogy in human communication underscores the need for a system which can recognize and understand analogies. This paper presents a theory of analogy recognition and comprehension, using as a domain letters to the editor of a weekly news magazine. Some of the issues facing a system which understands analogies in this domain are identified, initial work on this program is ...

opinions and sentiments of Canadian physicians? Judging from the feedback we receive, sometimes well, sometimes poorly — assuming that medicine can be fairly represented by any one, cohesive view. Is it our job to represent the filtered view of the majority? We don’t believe that it behooves journalists in any guise to say things merely for the sake of being provoking. At the same time, if our ...

The National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) human tumor cell line panel for screening potential new anticancer drugs is now operational (/). Its implementation and the demonstration of its feasibility represent a technical and organizational tour de force. The rationale for the change in the primary screen from leukemias in mice to the array of 60 human cancer cell lines was earlier debated in cont...