Abstract Introduction Osteoporosis is common in later life, leading to fragility fractures associated with increased mortality, disability, and costs. There a surprising lack of data regarding the incidence osteoporosis. We aimed estimate recorded diagnosis osteoporosis, osteopenia, fracture older people, explore time trends diagnosis, differences by age, sex, social deprivation. Method used de...

PURPOSE In immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRDs), persistence to treatment may be used as a surrogate marker for long-term treatment success. In previous comparisons of persistence to tumor necrosis factor α inhibitors (TNFis), a paucity of data for subcutaneous (SC) golimumab was identified. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of persistence to SC golimumab in clinica...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway, 1898--1961, said the following about the art of writing: ‘‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master’’. This phrase also applies to writers of scientific texts. We are apprentices and self-taught writers in this difficult task of producing quality scientific writing. Creating a good text is the result of the hard work of writing. ...

although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., glucksberg & keysar 1993; skorczynska & deignan, 2006; sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in iran. the gap envis...

Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in Iran. The gap envisagedhas ...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

The implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. One such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...