This study explores the ways in which master thesis writers position their research field of English language teaching a context where academic literacies are still developing field. From social semiotic perspective, this paper aims to identify resources use represent object and provide justification for research. The analysis focuses on ideational textual metafunctions account patterns meaning...

BACKGROUND Stricto sensu post-graduation in Brazil was implemented in 1965 to increase university professors' teaching quality and to prepare full, independent researchers. The brazilian share in ISI publications has increased significantly since then, but little information is available on postgraduate quality. OBJECTIVE To review 29 years of the postgraduate programs in cardiology at the Fe...

The aim of platooning is to enable several Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) to drive in a convoy and act as one unit to decrease the fuel consumption. By introducing wireless communication and tight control, the distance between the HDVs can be decreased significantly. This implies a reduction of the air drag and consequently the fuel consumption for all the HDVs in the platoon. The challenge in plat...

In the thesis literature review, an engineering graduate student is expected to place original research in the context of previous work by other researchers. However, for some students, particularly those for whom English is a second language, the literature review may be a mixture of original writing and verbatim source text appropriated without quotations. Such problematic use of source mater...

<The Theses Alive project, conducted at Edinburgh University Library, aimed to produce an E-Theses repository with a view to providing a solution which may be appropriate for other UK higher education institutions to adopt. This paper examines some of the most interesting and involved areas of that project, including what open access and open source meant for it, and how the Edinburgh Research ...