Background: Several studies in interlanguage pragmatics have reported Russian directive speech acts to take a particular position within the dimensions of linguistic politeness and (in)directness, when compared some Germanic Romance languages extensively studied this framework.Purpose study: The present paper aimed investigate role language specific cues requests by examining their perception n...

Direct manipulation has been lauded as a good form of interface design, and some interfaces that have this property have been well received by users. In this article we seek a cognitive account of both the advantages and disadvantages of direct manipulation interfaces. We identify two underlying phenomena that give rise to the feeling of directness. One deals with the information processing dis...

BACKGROUND The formation of destructive hypercellular pannus is critical to joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The collagen triple helix repeat containing 1 (CTHRC1) protein expressed by activated stromal cells of diverse origin has previously been implicated in tissue remodeling and carcinogenesis. We recently discovered that the synovial Cthrc1 mRNA directly correlates with arthritis ...

Expressionism emphasized energetic and dynamic mark making in contrast to the more reflective and spiritual Color Field abstraction. The Color Field movement stressed the overall consistency of form and process and less on gestural brushstrokes of its counterpart and can be seen in the prints of Latvian artists Ivars Hirss and Adja Yunkers. Abstract Expressionism favored highly abstract imagery...

Machine learning techniques are ever prevalent as datasets continue to grow daily. Associative classification (AC), which combines and association rule mining algorithms, plays an important role in understanding big that generate a large number of rules. Clustering, on the other hand, can contribute by reducing space produce compact models. The above-mentioned facts were main motivation for thi...

Fifty-nine Japanese college students of English at two different proficiency levels were evaluated for their ability to produce a speech act request in spoken role play task. Learners’ production was analyzed quantitatively by rating performance on six-point scale overall appropriateness, as well qualitatively identifying the directness linguistic expressions used requests. Results revealed sig...

A perceptual experience of a given object seems to make the object itself present to the perceiver’s mind. As P. F. Strawson says, ‘‘mature sensible experience (in general) presents itself as, in Kantian phrase, an immediate consciousness of the existence of things outside us’’ (1979, 47). This phenomenological directness of perceptual experience is the distinctive feature of perceptual phenome...

Interactions occurring between malignant cells and the stromal microenvironment heavily influence tumor progression. We investigated whether this cross-talk affects some molecular and functional aspects specifically correlated with the invasive phenotype of breast tumor cells (i.e. adhesion molecule expression, membrane fluidity, migration) by co-culturing mammary cancer cells exhibiting differ...

This article examines the results of a contrastive empirical study conventional indirect requests in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish. The reveal pragmatic similarities at level linguistic encoding utterances with both, Spanish speakers showing negative correlation between (in)directness social distance. less familiar interlocutors are each other, more likely it is for their to be realised indi...