This study identified the use of evaluative ‘that’ stance embedded in rhetorical move structures applied linguistics research articles discussion sections written English and published international Thai journals. The aimed to investigate uses for observing practices both data was gathered from 80 articles. moves were analyzed. Occurrences counted within move-step. results revealed that journal...

Vast quantities of data are collected about us and our world: credit card transactions, movements and traffic flows, social networks, disease outbreaks, bird migrations, and flowers blossoming. These datasets span a wide range of public and private information and contexts. However, it is the emergence of a host of mobile phone based citizen sensing platforms that is poised to become the domina...

A Cartesian skeptic must not accept anything but what is ideally clear and distinct in her mind. She has only few beliefs, but all her beliefs have maximal certainty. Some philosophers recommend that a responsible believer should believe only what is beyond any doubt, namely logical and analytical truths. The common core of such proposals is that maximal certainty is held to be necessary and su...

purpose: satisfaction is the result of a process; to assess satisfaction, the care recipients’ experiences of the services received should be understood and efforts should be made to understand how these experiences have formed that satisfaction.the purpose was to understand the processes of satisfaction with nursing care in parents of hospitalized children.methods: the present grounded theory ...

Certainty is an epistemic quality or, as philosophers are used to say, an epistemic modality. It is not easily accounted for as such; but things get even more complicated due to the fact that certainty is often confused with other epistemic modalities. Since I cannot discuss here the quite sophisticated technical treatments of certainty, I focus on disentangling certainty from and relating it t...