Pittcon 1992 — Abstracts

Pittcon Abstracts (1991)

Different forms of metals and metalloids have varying degrees of toxicity in biological systems. Because of this, there has been an increase in the research focused on the speciation of metals at trace levels. Plasma mass spectrometric detection of hydride species has been established as a viable technique for the determination of these species at trace levels. One problem with the determinatio...

Abstracts of papers presented at the 2002 Pittsburgh Conference

To attend or not to attend, that is the question. The Pittsburgh Conference continues to pose this conundrum to conferees and exhibitors alike. This year's conference was the first to be presented without a set of paper abstracts-a good thing some would say but this old codger always used the paper abstracts to select papers of interest to our readership and to seek a full publication. The exhi...

Cross-disciplinary use of Organizational Linkers in Research Article Abstracts

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Abstracts of literature: to be or not to be?

Cross-disciplinary use of Organizational Linkers in Research Article Abstracts

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...