Abstract in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few studies have been done to evaluate the rhetorical organization of thesis abstracts, especially in the field of Teaching English as a Fo...

state machines (ASMs) [7, 8, 5] provide a perfect language for descriptions of algorithmic transition functions. They consist of generalized assignment statements f (s1, . . . ,sk) := u, conditional tests if C then P or if C then P else Q, where C is a Boolean combination of equations between terms, and parallel composition. A program as such defines a single transition; it is executed repeated...

The Prolog program \term_expansion((define C as A with B), (C=>A:-B,!)). implements a virtual machine for evolving algebras. It ooers an eecient and very exible framework for their simulation. Computation models and speciication methods seem to be worlds apart. The evolving algebra project started as an attempt to bridge the gap by improving on Turing's thesis.

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The purpose of the present study is to analyse abstracts related to Applied Linguistics, and more precisely the discourse functions of grammatical subjects and verbs. The corpus consisted of 50 PhD thesis abstracts written on the subject of Applied Linguistics. All of the abstracts were written from 2010 to 2014. The theses from which the abstracts were extracted are available in the ProQuest d...