.......Welcome to the 2012 Top Picks issue of IEEE Micro, featuring the best papers published at top Microrelated conferences in 2011. We moved Top Picks to the third issue of 2012 to allow more time for consideration of papers published late in 2011, such as at the Micro conference. Guest Editors Paolo Faraboschi and T.N. Vijaykumar have done an outstanding job in all facets of putting togethe...

This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...

Kanaat önderi kavramı, bir bireyin fikir ve görüşleriyle diğer bireylerin tutum davranışları üzerinde etkili olmasını ifade eder. Kamuoyu oluşumunda, toplumsal bilincin sağlanmasında önemli işlevi yerine getiren köşe yazarları ise dile getirdikleri fikirleriyle okuyucu/takipçi/izleyicilerin görüş düşüncelerinin oluşmasında olan kanaat önderlerinin başında gelmektedir. Özellikle, Facebook, Twitt...

Evidences show that Saudi agents killed prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Arabia’s Istanbul consulate on October 2, 2018. As the Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman was blamed for murder, Arab News newspaper took a defensive position to defend crown prince and regime through news reports columns. This study has analyzed 36 articles of ten columnists learn how journalists defended their offic...

The purpose of the present study is to use transitivity analysis investigate gender variations in political media discourse from point view male and female columnists. To attain this purpose, paper adopts a critical (CDA) Halliday’s theory process types. Literature shows that variation one key elements affecting language. However, studies, particularly article writing, has not been recently add...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

After a brief outlook on the field of random text generation, in particular on Andrew Bulhak’s Postmodernism generator, the present paper describes a program for generation of random, meaningless but grammatically correct text in Swedish. The program, named Horace, is intended to simulate the abstract reasoning of (some) literary columnists. Horace is written in Prolog using the DCG formalism. ...