Nanotechnology, shortened to nanotech, is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometer in at least one dimension and involves developing materials or devices within that size. The use of nanotechnology in the field of pharmaceutics and drug delivery has grown over the last few years, so ...

Abstract The communication of a scientific finding as certain or uncertain largely determines whether that information will be translated into practice. In this study, corpus 80 articles published in the British Medical Journal for over 167 years (1840–2007) is analysed by focusing on three categories uncertainty markers, which explicitly reveal writer’s subjectivity: (1) I/we epistemic verbs; ...