Various forms of language use in social media characterize digital culture as part humanities. It is fundamental to be able get some knowledge knowing the behavior people using platforms, because nowadays communicate via digital. Digital communication a valid text that does not happen suddenly it can considered something passive. This paper important so reader about choices and patterns communi...

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It is difficult to write about grand challenges in our field without pontificating or pretending to show a degree of certainty in assessing the field that I do not possess. I would rather comment on a few of the issues that particularly worry me. Therefore, this article is just a snapshot of our field now, as I see it, and encourage readers to read it as the opinion of just one of their colleag...

Adaptationism maintains that natural selection is the principal factor causing evolutionary change. This statement is in need of qualification. Indeed, Peter Godfrey-Smith finds several possible usages of the term adaptationism. Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober argue that for adaptationism to be an interesting research program it has to be given in a reasonably strong form. Such a reasonably str...

In the current issue of this journal, Kaushal and colleagues present an exemplary, thorough analysis of the financial impact of installing computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a major academic hospital. This excellent work quantifies quantifiable parameters clearly, estimates other parameters conservatively, and lists problems associated with measurement of the remaining small set of ot...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

So this small package arrives at my office, addressed to “Anniken Goldstein.” Two Goldsteins work in my office, my Bride/Empress and myself, so she took the liberty of opening it up, and extracting a Darth Vader head coffee cup from a carefully bundled straw package. There was no accompanying note; the return address indicated that none was needed. Everyone from my receptionist to my office man...