Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278, Japan a Laboratory of Microbial Resource, National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305, Japan b Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken 464, Japan c Laboratory of Cancer Cell Bi...

We refine previous analyses of Hyland-Ong game semantics and its relation to λand λμ-calculi and present improved factorization results for bracketing and rigidity that can be combined in any order.

A generic analysis of research articles can cover a wide variety of issues; among them are rhetorical features. A crucial part of the rhetorical features of research article is the use of metadiscourse that can help to make the text persuasive and acceptable to a discourse community (Hyland, 2005). The underlying principle behind metadiscourse use is the view of writing as socially engaging: in...

No question is more important in Britain today than that of industrial democracy. More and more people ai'e keenly discussing the issue which quite recently was of concern only to the smallest minority. In the next year or so, it is perfectly possible that general elections will be fought in order to decide upon proposals for the democratisation of work. With the British economy stumbling from ...

the chechen republic (commonly referred to as chechnya) is a part of vast territory of russian federation that has been a source of contention since collapse of the soviet :union:. identity elements and tattered cultural bonds have strained ties between two nations of chechnya and russia. various aspects of crisis in chechnya have been addressed by many theoretical approaches of international r...

Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) has been frequently used in EAP classrooms and re-examined in light of various domain-specific corpora. Although well-received, the AWL has been criticized for ignoring the fact that words tend to show irregular distributions and be used in different ways across disciplines (Hyland and Tse, 2007). One such difference concerns collocations. Academic word...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To construct an easy-to-use server-based database that stores photographs of patients undergoing reconstructive surgery for cutaneous facial defects and organizes them in a manner best suited for rapid search and education. STUDY DESIGN An institutional review board-approved user-modifiable database was designed using OnBase software (Hyland Software Inc., Westlake, OH) ...