Research article (RA) abstracts constitute an important genre in higher education. Previous research on the RA abstract has often combined from journals same discipline, with view of revealing possible intra/inter-disciplinary, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, etc. variations. The present study analysed empirical TESOL Quarterly, a well-recognised journal Applied Linguistics, their rhetorical ...

The 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) took place in Washington, DC, USA, from November 10–15, 2006. More than 13,000 attendees, a record number, which included over 9500 scientists, registered for the meeting. Approximately 2000 abstracts were presented, along with a number of state-ofthe-art lectures and topical symposia. While it is not feasible to r...

This paper investigates patterns of rhetorical convergence and divergence in pairs of RA abstracts (English-Spanish and Spanish-English) published in the journal Ibérica. To that end, a total of 84 pairs of author-translated RA abstracts were analyzed. Based on the results of a pilot study, the following rhetorical patterns were analyzed in the corpus: text-referring expressions, degree of epis...

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Metadiscourse markers are analyzed in many different languages detail. This study focuses on two interactional metadiscourse markers: attitude and self-mentions Turkish RA abstracts. In the study, scientific area, namely social sciences natural compared regarding use of There questions to answer. The first one is related features abstracts defined literature. Since as an objective summery artic...

Periodontitis (PD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are immunoinflammatory diseases where leukocyte infiltration and inflammatory mediators induce alveolar bone loss, synovitis, and joint destruction, respectively. Thus, we reviewed the relationship between both diseases considering epidemiological aspects, mechanical periodontal treatment, inflammatory mediators, oral microbiota, and antibodies, ...

Patient assessment of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be useful in clinical practice, offering a patient-friendly, location independent, and a time-efficient and cost-efficient means of monitoring the disease. The objective of this study was to identify patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess disease activity in RA and to evaluate the measurement properties of thes...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontitis are both chronic inflammatory diseases, which demonstrate similarities in terms of mechanism, histopathology, and demography. An association between these conditions has been demonstrated previously but has been called into question more recently. METHODS The published databases, such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO, were searched using ...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...