ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius, Bioline International , African Journals online Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com http://www.bioline.br/md http://www.ajol.com Received: January 2008 Accepted (Revised): June 2008 Published Septemeber 2008 Full Length Research Article Effects of Metha...

purpose: english abstracts are the only way through which non-speaking readers can access persian papers, the quality of english abstracts from the viewpoint of semantic and syntax should be controlled. adopting a linguistic framework, the present study sought to determine the linguistic and orthographic problems embedded in english abstracts of msrt’s high ranking basic sciences journals, aimi...

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com & http://www.bioline.br/md Received: November, 2005 Accepted (Revised): November, 2005 Published January, 2006 Full Length Research Article The Importance of O – Level Grades in Medical School Admission: The University of Ado–Ekiti Expe...

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...

There has long been a growing interest in journal articles (JA) abstract writing, and this pervading interest has boosted the exigency for further instructive research. This current study aims to investigate both the variant application of the verb tense as well as the rhetorical structure within JA abstracts. A 9.9 million word corpus of 1000 JAs was collected based on four prestigious journal...

SHIFTWORK INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER The official newsletter of the Scientific Committee on Night and Shiftwork of the International Commission on Occupational Health June 2003, Volume 20, Number 1 ISBN 0265-5357 Published by Tsuyoshi Kawakami and Kazutaka Kogi Institute for Science of Labour 2-8-14, Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki 216, Japan (Fax: +81-44-977-7504; E-mail: [email protected], k.kog...

The aim of the present study was to investigate how spatial attention influences directional manual and saccadic reaction times. Two experiments were carried out. In experiment 1 subjects were instructed to perform pointing responses toward targets that were located either in the same or the opposite hemifield with respect to the hemifield in which an imperative stimulus was presented. In exper...