in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Synopsis The regression effect in ore-reserve estimation has been identified, described and quantified in vein and reef deposits for more than twenty years. Its importance in ‘three-dimensional’ deposits whether underground or open-pit -has been recognized under the alternate guise of the geostatistical volume-variance relationship. The Fontainebleau school has developed the technique of disjun...

Biomass, which represents both cellulosic and non-cellulosic materials, contains the most abundant source of fermentable carbohydrates that can be fermented into fuels and chemicals. According to the Department of Energy (DOE) “Roadmap for Biomass Technology in the United States,” biobased transportation fuels are projected to increase from the 0.5% of U.S. consumption in 2001 to 4% in 2010, 10...

This study is a corpus-based study of interactional metadiscourse in natural and social science master theses. For this purpose, 30 natural and social science master theses in six disciplines were randomly selected out of the library of five universities. Five master theses were selected in each discipline, in a period of six years (2010-2016).This study analyzed only the discussion and conclus...