Metadiscourse is now a widely used term in academic discourse analysis. How academics employ rhetorical devices to structure their texts, establish reader-writer interaction and stamp authorial stance regarding the conventions of disciplines, cultures, genres has been subject many studies. Despite growing prominence term, however, some features it, one which frame markers, have gone unnoticed. ...

As long as the UK’s membership in EU lasted, it had a special position within Union. This could be seen particularly well peculiar practice that has largely gone unnoticed public, namely series of opt-in decisions UK took prior to Brexit but after referendum. contribution raises question whether used pre-Brexit period type ‘last call’, trying get everything its before ended. To do so, studies f...

Slavoj Žižek has made it his essential project to renew an understanding of G.W.F. Hegel’s subjectivity by means of the psychoanalytic theory and practice of Jacques Lacan. One crucial element in such an endeavor is Lacan’s notion of the lamella, a particular understanding of excessive desire as indestructible and exterior to the self. I would like to investigate Žižek’s characterization of the...

In an earlier study on measuring national efficiencies in the production of scientific papers and patents of several developed and developing countries (Basu, 2013; 2014a), we found that Italy has the highest efficiency in the production of papers. While this has not gone unnoticed in the literature (Daraio and Moed, 2011) they have taken it as an ‘overcompensation effect’ and an indication of ...

Decades of characterization of the transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) has led to the realization of its central role in thermosensation and pain perception. A large number of pharmaceutical companies have had interest in developing TPRV1 antagonists for the treatment of pain. The subsequent discovery of multiple other members of this TRPV family has not gone unnoticed. TRP...

There has been a growing interest among clinicians and researchers about a condition where people restrict their diet based not on quantity of food they consume, but based on its quality. Bratman (1997) coined the term "orthorexia nervosa" to describe people whose extreme diets - intended for health reasons - are in fact leading to malnutrition and/or impairment of daily functioning. There has ...

Recent developments pertaining to the spherically symmetric combustion of sooting fuels are discussed. The spherical droplet  ame is well suited for studying soot formation in droplet combustionbecause of the simplicity of the transportprocess thatresults fromaone-dimensionalcombustionprocess. Recent advances innew experimental designs for forming and deploying droplets in a low-buoyancy envir...