thanks to the development of the concept of metadiscourse, it is now widely acknowledged that academic/scientific writing is not only concerned with communicating purely propositional meanings: what is communicated through academic/scientific communication is seen to be intertwined with the negotiation of social and interpersonal meanings. while a large number of so called metadiscoursal resour...

S-lenition is wide-spread in many dialects of Spanish, including Spanish spoken in the Caribbean region, coastal Mexico, Central America (but not in Costa Rica and Guatemala), and the Pacific coast of Colombia, Ecuador, coastal Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and much of Argentina (Lipski, 1994). Spanish s-lenition is a phonological process that weakens both morphological /-s/ (plural marker /-...

Every day, college graduates face complex situations that make them check skills developed during the course in comparison with the skills needed at the professional level. This experience helps them evaluate the adequacy of the course’s teaching structure and recover intervening aspects of this process. This text discusses the Evaluation of College Courses, recovering concepts in the field of ...

This study is a review of published research findings on the oral effects of occupational exposure to acid mists. A literature search was conducted on MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, BBO, and DEDALUS, identifying eight articles and a doctoral dissertation focusing on this association. Findings were consistent with a positive association between occupational exposure to acid mists and dental erosion, a...

This article examines recent developments in cognitivist theories of the emotions, and seeks to develop an original theory within that approach. The article specifically considers the criticism that such theories over-intellectualise emotions by reducing them to attitudes towards propositions and by excluding feelings. I argue that few cognitivists have ever held the former position, and that i...

Prior research indicates that there is much spatial variation in applications' memory access patterns. Modern memory systems, however, use small fixed-size cache blocks and as such cannot exploit the variation. Increasing the block size would not only prohibitively increase pin and interconnect bandwidth demands, but also increase the likelihood of false sharing in shared-memory multiprocessors...