In the Introduction section of this Research Article, description on membrane geometry was incorrect. The first sentence fourth paragraph in section, “Herein we prepared high-silica CHA zeolite membranes ceramic hollow fiber substrates for Kr/Xe separation.” should be revised to read disk This change does not affect interpretation data and conclusions, but guarantees a consistent with other sec...

In this paper we study the properties of recurring in-text references in research articles and more specifically their positions in the rhetorical structure of articles and their age with respect to the citing article. We have processed a large scale corpus of about 80,000 papers published by PLOS. We examine the number and types of recurring in-text references, as well as their age according t...

The Scientific Manuscript This is a basic overview of a scientific manuscript. In the sections to follow, we will break down each section in detail. Structure of a Research Article The structure of a research article usually depends on the journal to which the article is being submitted. Many journals have page limits, figure limits, or specific article divisions to which authors must adhere. T...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity process...

The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...

This editorial introduces the use of article-processing charges at Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations and reviews that advantages of publishing in an Open Access journal. In addition, it introduces a new type of article the journal hopes to publish, detailed reports of study design or data analysis methods that have been used in health science research. The new type of article is intended...

1. introduction shekarnameh ilkhani is a book about training and treatment of wild animals and birds, written by ali ibn mansour halvani based on several other books like baznameh and shekarnameh, especially that of malekshahi named after toghan teimurkhan. this book consists of three main sections. the first section is an introduction which is important for the development of baznameh and the ...

It is now generally accepted that academic writing is a social activity by which the authors negotiate with their audience to gain community acceptance for their findings. One of the ways to achieve such an acceptance is by establishing intertextual links to prior research using citation. Despite a vast research on the topic and suggestion of typologies for the form and function of citation in ...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...

Probably because of their interpretability and transparent nature, synthetic controls have become widely applied in empirical research economics the social sciences. This article aims to provide practical guidance researchers employing control methods. The starts with an overview introduction estimation. main sections discuss advantages framework as a design, describe settings where reliable es...