s to be showcased at the Canadian Pharmacists Conference 2016. *Abstracts may be submitted in English or French. Deadline for submission December 21, 2015

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...

Most studies within the area of genre analysis, particularly those conducted in Iran, have exclusively used text analysis. While such investigations have led to important understandings of generic features of texts, it can be argued that incorporating interview data for triangulation can lead to better understanding of generic features of texts. Along this line, this paper reports the results o...

Abstract Although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). To underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in English by two cultural groups in three di...

context a tourniquet is a device that is used frequently in most orthopaedic surgeries but this routine device can lead to serious complications so we decided to review and declare it for safe instruction and use. evidence acquisition we searched the word “tourniquet” in pubmed and google and reviewed all full text english articles and abstracts of non-english articles. in addition, we read all...

S.Papers will be selected based upon extended abstracts, in English, of about 1000 words in length. The abstracts,typed double spaced, should state clearly the purpose, results and conclusions with supporting figures as appropriate. Allreference to units and dimensions should be in SI units. Five copies of the abstracts should be submitted. PUBLICATION.Those authors whose abstra...

This paper describes a method for retrieving technical terms and finding their translation candidates from patent corpora. The method improves the reliability of bilingual seed words that measure similarity between a target word and its translation candidates. We conducted an experiment with PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan), which is a collection of bilingual patent abstracts written in Japanese...