Hengeveld/Mackenzie (2008: 52) consider that the constructions with mas ‘but’ result from combination of two Discursive Acts different communicative statutes, there being a Nuclear Act, greater weight, and Subsidiary which will have rhetorical function named “Concession”. This paper aims to investigate various uses ‘but’, according Functional Discourse Grammar, in order determine pragmatic, sem...

Type IV pili (T4P) are long, thin, flexible filaments on bacteria that undergo assembly-disassembly from inner membrane pilin subunits and exhibit astonishing multifunctionality. Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcal or GC) T4P are prototypic virulence factors and immune targets for increasingly antibiotic-resistant human pathogens, yet detailed structures are unavailable for any T4P. Here, we dete...

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) Is it true, as is often claimed, that utterances in dialogue tend to have multiple functions? (2) If so, then what are the reasons for that? (3) How many functions does a dialogue utterance typically have, and which factors determine this? (4) What consequences does this have for the computational semantics of dialogue utterances? Answers to the...

Multifunctionality is a well observed phenomenological feature of biological neural networks and considered to be fundamental importance the survival certain species over time. These multifunctional are capable performing more than one task without changing any network connections. In this paper, we investigate how neurological idiosyncrasy can achieved in an artificial setting with modern mach...

The importance of biodiversity for the integrated functioning of ecosystems remains unclear because most evidence comes from analyses of biodiversity's effect on individual functions. Here we show that the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem function become more important as more functions are considered. We present the first systematic investigation of biodiversity's effect on ecosystem multi...

Multifunctionality is a common trait of many natural proteins and peptides, yet the rules to generate such multifunctionality remain unclear. We propose that the rules defining some protein/peptide functions are compatible. To explore this hypothesis, we trained a computational method to predict cell-penetrating peptides at the sequence level and learned that antimicrobial peptides and DNA-bind...

Green infrastructure (GI) and ecosystem services (ES) are promoted as concepts that have potential to improve environmental planning in urban areas based on a more holistic understanding of the complex interrelations and dynamics of social-ecological systems. However, the scientific discourses around both concepts still lack application-oriented frameworks that consider such a holistic perspect...