This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...

This study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at Iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. Since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

BACKGROUND There has been a substantial increase in the number of on-line health care grading sites that offer patient feedback on physicians, staff and hospitals. Despite a growing interest among some consumers of medical services, most studies of Internet physician rating sites (IPRS) have restricted their analysis to sampling data from individual sites alone. Our objective was to explore the...

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

Objectives: To perform aspect extraction for opinion mining of learner comments in the online teaching-learning scenario. Methods : A machine learning model is developed extraction. The authors collected dataset consisting around 5000 from Coursera and performed analysis on dataset. validate results, standard SemEval2014 used. Findings: For both contextualised non word embeddings, compiled resu...

Thank you very much for your consideration to the above-referenced manuscript. We revised the manuscript according to the comments by reviewers. Our point-by-point responses to the reviewers' comments are provided in a separate sheet and coloured in blue the corresponding sentences in text. The page and line numbers referred to our revised manuscript. We hope that the revision would be satisfac...

The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing over 116,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students, is pleased to provide written comments on the Federal role in promoting health information technology (HIT) to improve quality and the value of patient care. These comments are provided for the July 22, 2004 hearing held by the United States (U.S.) Health Subcommittee of the Ho...

Abstract Acknowledgments: The authors are grateful to the National Institute of Aging for support through P01 XXXXX. The Role of Private Plans in Medicare, J. Newhouse, PI. This paper grew out of discussions with Rhema Vaithianathan. Mike Chernew, Richard Frank and Joe Newhouse provided helpful comments on an earlier draft. The opinions and conclusions in this paper are the authors’ alone. This...

Acknowledgments We are grateful to numerous individuals at our field site whose efforts made this project possible. We thank the DE Serguei Netessine, the associate editor and the anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions greatly improved this paper. provided valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank participants in the seminar in Carlson School of Management, CO...

1 Workshop at which this work was first presented (Utrecht, June 22-24, 1994). For comments on this material, we are grateful to them and the other workshop participants, especially Austin have provided valuable feedback; and the comments, questions, and suggestions from the participants in the (eventually joint) UMass and Rutgers Correspondence Theory seminars were particularly important for t...