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... Clauss method and calculated from eth-ylenediamine tetra-acetic acid to citrate plasma values The detection range was 0.5 to 12.0 g/L and the intra-assay variability 2.8% Nitrites and nitrates ... The importance of gender is given by the fact that females have a more vigorous inflammatory reaction and generate more oxidative stress in the airways than males [23] Although an abnormal systemic ... Dublin, Ireland), with a detec-tion limits from 10 to 60 g/l and an intra-assay coefficient of variation of 1.5% Fibrinogen was assessed using a coagulation analyzer (Roche, Mannheim, Germany) according

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... data P-M participated in the follow-up pro-gramme in Rotterdam as a psychologist and participated in data acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the psychologi-cal data AFJ-vH participated ... dataset SJ-G participated in the follow-up programme in Rotterdam as a paediatrician and advised in the analysis of the data D-T and LAA-K participated as medical doctors in the coordination and design ... data acquisition, analysis and interpretation AJWM-J partici-pated in the follow-up programme in Nijmegen as a paediatric physiotherapist and contributed substantially to data acquisi-tion, analysis

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... R.Trivedia and V.K.Kashyapa, b* Addresses: a Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata, India b National Institute of Biologicals, Noida, India. Correspondence: V.K Kashyap E-mail: vkk2k@hotmail.com ... ofNortheast India (Naga, Kuki, Hmar and Garo) constitute a separate cluster with 96-97%bootstrap value and are phylogenetically distant from Mongoloids of Sikkim, and China aswell as from Caucasoid affiliated ... theLepcha population was separated from Naga populations in early phase of migration ofhumans to Himalayas at least 4000-5000 years ago [33] This suggests Lepcha populationdoes not belong to Naga stock

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... phrases are lay the table and take a decision The characteristics above lead to the fact that what is perfectly acceptable collocation in one language may be unacceptable in another Take the case ... notion that patterns of collocation can form the basis for a lexical analysis of language alternative to, and independent of, the grammatical analysis They regarded the two levels of analysis as being ... foreign language more effective since students will be faced with real language Authentic materials can motivate learners in the language classroom whereas non-authentic materials may not because

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:18

... that patterns of collocation can form the basis for a lexical analysis of language alternative to, and independent of, the grammatical analysis They regarded the two levels of analysis as being ... items as are grammatically well formed" Kathleen R McKeown and Dragomir R Radev in their paper on Collocations regard collocations as word pairs and phrases that are commonly used in language ... software programs installed for keywords and collocations extract from corpus data Such software packages have made easier access to the investigation into typical lexical items and their collocations

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... seen as an attempt to potentially extend and triangulate intuition-based manual analysis and the Trang 3concordancing of pre-selected search strings as a basis for discourse-analytical metaphor studies ... productive than traditional methods of metaphor analysis and provides an inductive, empirical springboard to the mining of metaphors in a large representative data-set Hardie et al (2007) assert that their ... discourse analysis This means that the use of a representative corpus in tandem with concordances and its relevant statistical correlations and frequencies are used as an empirical platform for

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... through ocular scanning It is clear that Partington advocates a brand of Conceptual Metaphor Analysis that is genre-specific and supports qualitative analysis with quantitative data on metaphor frequency ... foundation for the formulation of conceptual metaphors that is based on authentic language data that is not artificially elicited Thirdly, Partington supports an inductive approach to data analysis ... understanding via analogy and a pragmatic role that aims to provide evaluations” (p.9) Hence, Critical Metaphor Analysis is a three-pronged approach that integrates these three dimensions Charteris-Black

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Ontological Metaphors, Orientational/Spatial Metaphors and Image/Analogy-based Metaphors (See Section 3.3.4) The overall distribution of the metaphor categories and the associated metaphors are captured ... conceptual metaphor identification, formulation and interpretation 3.5.4 Phase Three – Analysis and Generalisation (Critical Metaphor Analysis) 3.5.4.1 Image schemas and entailments Lakoff & ... various entities Figure 3.16 is an ambitious attempt to demonstrate how the complete range of Structural Metaphors and Ontological Metaphors relate to the Orientational/Spatial and Analogy-based

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... integral part of all discourse-analytical corpus research past and present – and the entire range of early metaphor studies that use the intensive manual analysis of representative data have resulted ... metaphor formulation and analysis loop, propagating a metaphor identification and analysis procedures that is based on empirical and inductive principles in a critical tradition Thus, this framework ... corpora While the steps outlined here are for the purposes of a preliminary analysis, the key advantage of using WMatrix as a springboard for a discourse-analytic metaphorical study is that an exhaustive

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... socio-political backdrop in a comparative approach Trang 34.2 Utilising the IICM: Phase One – Identifying the candidate USAS Categories/ Lexical Items for Analysis The IICM advocates an empirical and ... context where a British-based company’s negligence has resulted in widespread economic and ecological damage to America, an established international ally This simply means that the potentially ethno-centric ... from large representative corpora of selected British and American broadsheets This is significant as the evaluations and metaphors generated in these popular mainstream broadsheets aid the reader

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Corporation (a US-based oil and gas exploration and production company), Transocean Ltd (a Swiss-based offshore drilling contractor), Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (a Japan-based oil exploration ... portrayal of the US Government/ Obama Administration’s role in the disaster It also predominantly adopts a pragmatic approach that conceptualises the notion of BUSINESS as a WAR/ STRATEGY/ GAME ... “grotesquely exaggerated the oil threat to advance his personal and party cause” The Obama Administration is also metaphorically portrayed as an INCOMPETENT WAR GENERAL who unwisely “led the charge in

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... these metaphors are “best analysed by way of the distributional analysis of sufficiently large amounts of corpus data which reveal the usage patterns and relative dominance of certain scenarios” ... statements and claims made in this thesis are generalisable only to this dataset, and are not extendable to each broadsheet’s overarching political stance per se until further validation across a wider ... criteria and in accordance to a pre-determined timeframe It is important to note that the analysis is streamlined into two broad evaluative categories across both American and British media discourse:

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... to language However, the main aim of this thesis is the formulation of a repeatable method that strikes an adequate balance between semi-automated and manual analysis Hence, it is hoped that the ... or Hurricane Katrina as a parallel to the catastrophe A detailed exposition of these metaphorical evaluations can be seen in Chapter 6 However, the dimension of intra-cultural bias is also evident ... the scale of the economic and ecological damage in an attempt to galvanise the citizenry against a common enemy There is another strong unifying narrative strand that foregrounds a nationalistic

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... the total allele signal (A + B) Trang 3837 explained by a single allele (A) The BAF has a significantly higher per-probe SNR than the log ratio data and can be interpreted as follows: a BAF of ... possible  Yudi Pawitan and Agus Salim for their guidance and discussion in data analysis  Teo Shu Mei and Nasheen Naidoo, my course mates and colleagues, for helping in R package analysis (Shu ... microarrays and sequencing-based methods for detecting structural variations Chapter 4 – Materials and methods Table 5 – Summary of samples, genotyping platforms, detection algorithms and data

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:47

... rhetorical-grammatical analysis, argumentation analysis and many others Work on discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, literary analysis, semantic analysis, sociolinguistics and text analysis, ... methodological approaches to classroom discourse, such as interaction analysis approaches, discourse analysis approaches and conversation analysis approaches, in terms of their relative merits and shortcomings ... thesis was eventually drawn As a team, Zheng Jianzhen, Wu Pengcheng, Niu Guiling, Ao Ran and Hui Chenri have been of invaluable assistance in processing the data Paul Doyle, Pauline Appleyard and

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:33

... Foundation MSc and PhD scholarship from August 2002 to July 2007 Trang 19Abbreviations used in text ATM Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated ATP Adenosine Triphosphate ATR Ataxia-Telangiectasia and ... Damayanti, Azhar bin Ali, Philip Tsau Choong Iau, A Ilancheran and Jen-Hwei Sng The founder mutation BRCA1 c.2845insA identified in a fallopian tube cancer patient: a case report International ... cancer patient 102 3.1.4 Absence of BRCA1 genomic rearrangement in Malay breast/ovarian cancer patients 103 3.2 BRCA1 haplotype analysis 105 3.2.1 Haplotyping of Malay breast/ovarian

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... Malay breast cancer patient, N510 Trang 153.2 BRCA1 haplotype analysis 3.2.1 Haplotyping of Malay breast/ovarian cancer patients and the general Malay population Three BRCA1 intragenic markers, ... is a rare mutation having only been described once in the BIC database (Table 10, Figure 13) This mutation causes an amino acid Variant band Variant band Truncated protein (~106kDa) Normal ... of cancer (Table 10) The intronic variant, IVS18+73G>A, was identified in two samples, a breast and an ovarian cancer patients Patient N640 was diagnosed with early-onset breast cancer and

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... Estimated survival rate ESR Hepatocellular carcinoma HCC International Classification of Childhood Cancer ICCC International Classification of Diseases for Magnetic resonance imaging MRI Manual ... resource allocation (Pastore et al., 2001a) Cancer registries have been in existence for 30 years in Singapore and have amassed important and large amount of data on cancer incidence in Singapore Although ... medical care available Given equal access to effective treatment regardless of race or ability to pay, black and white children with ALL can achieve same high survival rates, with 5-year survival

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:24

... of Hay and Baayen’s model makes it appealing for many researchers So far this model has been widely evaluated in a variety of languages The model manages to apply to some languages, for example, ... N]’s, adjectives are semantically bleached as in hei-ban (black-board) ‘blackboard’, hong-hua (red-flower) ‘safflower’, or are redundant as in da-suan (big-garlic) ‘garlic’; da-xiang (big-elephant) ... Trang 16such as in Dutch (Baayen 1989, 1992), English (Baayen and Liber 1991, Baayen and Renouf 1996, Hay and Baayen 2002, etc.), Italian (Gaeta and Ricca 2006) and Chinese (Sproat and Shih 1996,

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:55

... fibromyalgia Disability and health-care use Med Care 1996, 34:924-930 Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor R, et al.: A community -based study of chronic fatigue ... reasons to choose from, and health literacy may have affected the accuracy of these data Our study was cross-sectional in nature and does not allow for proper evaluation of treatment efficacy Also, ... including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, homeopathic preparations and herbs A physician review panel from the CDC CFS Research Program reviewed the verbatim data recorded at clinic and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20