Introduction to Comedy Studies 7:1

An Introduction to Natural Experiment Studies

در دو سخن سردبیری شماره‌های قبل به مطالعات مداخله‌ای (Interventional and/or experimental studies) [1] و مطالعات نیمه تجربی (studies Quasi-experiment) [2] پرداختیم. همان جا، به این نکته اشاره کردیم که برای اندازه‌گیری کارآیی یک دارو، واکسن، برنامه بهداشت عمومی و متغیرهای دیگری از این دست، مطالعات مداخله‌ای بهترین گزینه هستند. تقسیم تصادفی و کورسازی از مؤلفه‌های اساسی یک مطالعه مداخله‌ای است [1]....

Editors’ Introduction: Foregrounding The Comedy Audience

In January 2011, the scheduling plans of Britain’s biggest TV station, BBC1, were leaked to the press. After the recent success of BBC comedies such as Outnumbered (2007-) and My Family (2000-11), BBC1 Controller Danny Cohen apparently told his team of producers that BBC Comedy was becoming ‘too middle class’, and failing in its responsibility to appeal to working class viewers (Gammell, 2011; ...

Studies in comedy, II: toothless wine.

In youth Carton is a savage wine, insolent, loud-voiced and blustering. But after seven years or so he has learnt manners, and can come into a room like an educated gentleman. J. B. MORTON ['Beachcomber'], A Bonfire of Weeds (London 1939) A N AMUSING but enigmatic fragment from a fourth-century Athenian comedy appears to give the lie to the idea that the precious, humanising metaphors of wine c...

Topic Introduction Introduction to Genetic Association Studies

Genetic association studies test for a correlation between disease status and genetic variation to identify candidate genes or genome regions that contribute to a specific disease. A higher frequency of a singlenucleotide polymorphism (SNP) allele or genotype in a series of individuals affected with a disease can be interpreted as meaning that the tested variant increases the risk of a specific...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics