Background and purpose: Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) play a significant role in academic witting. They act as a bridge between writers and readers and make a text more understandable. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the use of MDMs in introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRaD) sections of English medical research articles (RAs) published in Iranian and American ISI jour...

OBJECTIVE Preparation of this supplement, Ten years of improvement innovation in cystic fibrosis care, tested a strategy to support writing and scholarly publication by cystic fibrosis (CF) healthcare improvement professionals. INTERVENTION Critical elements of the writing initiative included: a request for abstracts that was distributed to over 2000 professionals in the Cystic Fibrosis Found...

From the DNA libraries enriched by the repeat motifs (AAAC) , (AATC) , (ACAG) , (ACCT) , (ACTC) , ACTG) , (AAAT) , (AACT) , (AAGT) , (AGAT) , for two viviparous sea anemones and Aulactinia stella Cribrinopsis 41 primer pairs were developed. These primer pairs resulted in albopunctata, the identification of 41 candidate microsatellite loci in either or A. stella C. . Polymorphic loci were iden...

This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

Simulation is important in evaluating novel methods when input data is not easily obtainable or specific assumptions are needed. We present , a cophesim software to add the phenotype to generated genotype data prepared with a genetic simulator. The output of can be used as a direct input for cophesim different genome wide association study tools. is available from cophesim . https://bitbucket.o...

In " Writing and Writing Patterns," M^5 Marion Richardson has made a very valuab'e contribution to the art of teaching. Apart fro*11 setting forth an excellent method of teaching handwriting, these little books must help ^ child who uses them to develop an appreciatiojj of rhythm and beauty. One hopes they ^ inspire creative effort and that they shall not used merely as copy books. The examples...