this study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. the books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. furthermore, the den...

The subject of this article are the conditions for use Polish masculine inanimate singular nouns in accusative with -a suffix as a systemic morphological characteristic animate nouns. author proposes several ways to explain reasons expansion. Theory wise, study is based on system-functional grammar well natural grammar. emphasis placed description grammatical system perspective speech activity ...

Objective: To evaluate telomerase activity as a marker of lymphocyte proliferation in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: CD19+, CD4+, and CD8+ lymphocytes were isolated from the peripheral blood of nine patients with SLE and nine healthy controls by means of magnetic beadcoupled antibodies and tested for telomerase activity with the TRAP assay. Results: Telomerase activity was signifi...

Background Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with variable clinical features. Neurologic and psychiatric symptoms are reported to occur in 10 to 80 percent of patients either prior to the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus, or during the course of their illness. The neuropsychiatric manifestations of SLE are varied, and may be classified as primary neur...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) predominantly affects women of childbearing age, and the management of pregnant patients with SLE is challenging because pregnancy can aggravate SLE and vice versa. Furthermore, the drugs used to treat SLE can adversely affect the fetus. Accordingly, pregnancy should be planned in advance in women with lupus, and careful planning and treatment are required to ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by the production of autoantibodies and the formation of immune complexes that can damage multiple tissues, organs and systems. IL‐17 is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in several autoimmune diseases including SLE. The expression of IL‐17 is elevated in both SLE patients and in lupus‐prone m...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with inflammation of one or more of serous membranes resulting in pleural, peritoneal and pericardial effusion. Massive effusion had rarely been reported in patients with SLE and responded well to immunosuppressive therapy. We reported a case of SLE with recurrent massive ascites as the main presenting complaint with review of the available liter...

handed Z-DNA have been shown to be present in the sera of human patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). These antibodies are of two types. One type reacts with both denatured DNA and Z-DNA. The other type is specific for Z-DNA and remained in the serum after removal of the cross-reactive antibody by extensive absorption on a denatured DNA affinity column. The antibodies appear to be s...

Although it is widely acknowledged that gestures are complex functional elements of human communication, many current functional classification systems are rather rigid, implicitly assuming gestures to perform only one function at any given time. In this paper, we present a theoretical view on the inherent multifunctionality of speakers’ gestures, inspired by frameworks in structural-functional...

This paper presents a large-scale computational grammar of Greek, couched in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The grammar is being developed in the context of M-PIRO, a multilingual natural language generation project, where personalized descriptions of museum exhibits are generated automatically from a single database source. Although the grammar is still under development, it...