Biological Theme Comparison

Social comparison processes in an organizational context: New directions

The goal of this article is to frame some new directions to social comparison research in organizational settings. Four themes are developed. First, we examine the role of organizational variables in shaping the basic sub processes in social comparison, such as the selection of referents. The second theme focuses on the meaning of level of analysis in social comparison processes. The third them...

Entities with Genetic Information – An Initial Perspective from the Core Theme of Continuity and Change in Biology

Genetic information is transferred through biological processes studied at different levels of granularity. Focusing on the continuity and change of genetic information and its phenotypic expression thus yields a cross-cutting theme in biology. The inspiring aim of this work is to integrate this theme into the knowledge base of an electronic biology textbook. The paper describes first steps in ...

The Syntax of the Chinese Excessive Resultative Construction

This paper offers an affectedness-based analysis of the Chinese excessive resultative construction, which typically describes events of affectedness consisting of two participants, a theme participant and a scale participant measuring the degree of affectedness. In such an event, the theme participant is created or affected according to a beforehand prescribed value (e1) on a scale, while the p...

Biomaterials that Mimic and Harness Biological Signals Control over the signals that cells encounter in their local environment is a common theme in natural tissue formation, and also an emerging theme in functional tissue

Dual function of first position nominal groups in research article titles: Describing methods and structuring summary

Previous research has identified the nominal group as the most distinctive feature of the research article title. In contrast, the findings reported in this paper suggest Theme/Rheme is the dominant structure in title text. Theme/Rheme structures order and tie nominal groups in titles. When a title starts with a methodological term the first position nominal group acts as a theme marker. Thus, ...