Based on a contrastive approach that compares the argumentative genre of editorial with the narrative genre of personal narrative across two production modes, single-authored data and data elicited in an editing-based task, this paper examines the impact of genre on the realizations of discourse relations, paying particular attention to the argumentative genre and its preferential realizations ...

BACKGROUND Host modulation is fast gaining popularity as a preferred therapeutic modality for periodontal disease. Recent research in the medical field into herbal immunomodulators such as Septilin® has spurred an interest in evaluating its efficacy in periodontitis for the first time. AIM The aim of the study was to assess the immunomodulatory effects of the herbal immunomodulator Septilin® ...

The aim of the present study was determine the prevalence and factors associated with dental caries and periodontal disease in Brazilian children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP). This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 80 patients ranging in age from 2 to 18 years old. Oral exams were conducted by an examiner with records of DMFT, dmft, Gingival Bleeding Index (GBI) and Communit...

The adhesion of hematopoietic progenitor cells to bone marrow stromal cells is critical to hematopoiesis and involves multiple effector molecules. Stromal cell molecules that participate in this interaction were sought by analyzing the detergent-soluble membrane proteins of GBI/6 stromal cells that could be adsorbed by intact FDCP-1 progenitor cells. A single-chain protein from GBI/6 cells havi...

A close observation of Iran-Iraq war films in the Iranian society reveals that their genres have shifted in the course of the society’s evolution. This questions the category-based principles of genre we have known so far in literature concerning film theory and necessitates a new conceptualization of genre, which can be realized with the aid of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. This theo...

In this project automatic genre classification problem will be studied and a new system for music genre will be developed. This paper focuses on impact of features on music genre classification task. The following genres are used in this project: Jazz, Metal, Hip-Hop, Classical and Disco, Reggae, Country, Pop. It is found that 3 features out of 26 performs better in genre classification task.

Genre definition and attribution is generally considered to be subjective. This makes evaluation of any genrelabelling system intrinsically difficult, as the ground-truth against which it is compared is based upon subjective responses, with little inter-participant consensus. This paper presents a novel method of analysing the results of a genre-labelling task, and demonstrates that there are g...

similar to any poetic genre, eulogy of the prophet (pbuh) has progressed through various stages and experienced vicissitudes of history. the genre was first developed by such great poets as ka’b bin zuhayr and hassan ibn th?bit, and continued to survive inspired by the holy qur’an and the prophet’s tradition. the period of decadence (the mongol, mam?l?k, and ottoman empires) was the heyday of t...

As the World Wide Web continues to grow exponentially, researchers and search engine companies continue to look for techniques that will improve the quality of search results. One method that has been suggested is to classify Web pages by their type of genre and use this information to focus a search more narrowly or to rank search results. However, the growth of the World Wide Web has been mat...