Gelman’s article is a thought-provoking mix of opinions and creative methodology. I agree with Gelman that the disjunction of models and exploratory data analysis (EDA) in mainstream statistics is unsound. The assumption that models belong exclusively to confirmatory data analysis (CDA) is easily shown to be wrong in practice. Many uses of models, in particular model selection, are exploratory,...

Despite the saliency of raising critical thinking not only in ELT but also in other aspects of life, there is still lack of studies in this regard that need to be filled. Previous studies dealt with Faiclough’s model not that of van Dijk, and besides, they weren’t concerned about CDA effects on different proficiency levels. The present study, however, examined the impact of critical discourse a...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory. According to CDA, the categories of deception, power relations, manipulation, authority, legitimation, and ideology were considered in the analysis of the texts an...

This study was planned to investigate the effect of explicit teaching of some Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) techniques on Iranian EFL learners' Reading Comprehension. It was attempted to explore any change in the students’ abilities in revealing the implied meaning of the texts. Any change in the students’ views toward learning English was also explored in this study after critical reading ...

Zusammenfassung. Die IT-Unterstützung institutionsübergreifender Behandlungsprozesse wird immer wichtiger im Gesundheitswesen. Für eine zukunftssichere Lösung stehen Erweiterbarkeit und Integration in bestehende Systeme im Mittelpunkt, und damit auch die Wiederverwendbarkeit der gespeicherten Informationen. Mit CDA („Clinical Document Architecture“) steht eine flexible Dokumentenarchitektur zur...

Congenital dyserythropoietic anemias (CDA) represent a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by morphological abnormalities of erythroid precursor cells and various degrees of hemolysis. Iron overload is a result of continuous hemolysis and recurrent transfusions. It is treated with iron chelators, including deferasirox. We present here a case of acute liver failure in a 12 years old g...

Communicating genetic testing reports of a patient in a semantically interoperable way remains difficult. Most of the information is stored as non-communicable documents which cannot automatically be processed. The objective of the project was to obtain semantically interoperable genetic testing reports which could be used not only for communication purposes but also for secondary uses, for exa...

Brain stem halves from fetal rabbits were transplanted to the caudate nucleus area of adult rats. The animals were treated postoperatively with cyclosporine A (CsA) and 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (CdA) for three days, and with CdA alone for the next 13 days. The treatment started at the day of implantation, and in some animals it was repeated starting at day 36 after grafting (at the time when sign...

In this paper, the problem of frontal view recognition on still images is confronted, using subspace learning methods. The aim is to acquire the frontal images of a person in order to achieve better results in later face or facial expression recognition. For this purpose, we utilize a relatively new subspace learning technique, Clustering based Discriminant Analysis (CDA) against two well-known...

Cyclic di-nucleotides (CDN) are potent stimulators of innate and adaptive immune responses. Cyclic di-AMP (CDA) is a promising adjuvant that generates humoral and cellular immunity. The strong STING-dependent stimulation of type I IFN represents a key feature of CDA. However, recent studies suggested that this is dispensable for adjuvanticity. Here we demonstrate that stimulation of IFN-γ-secre...