Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...

background : the aim of the current study was to develop a marking technique as an internal marker to mark post blood meal mosquitoes by using stable phosphate isotope 32 p and determine the optimal concentration of it. methods : an isotonic physiological saline solution, containing different concentration of radioactive isotope 32 p-labeled disodium phosphate (na 2 h 32 po4) was injected into ...

A form of the aspect calculus hypothesized in Dowty 1979 to explain “the different aspectual properties of the various kinds of verbs” is reinterpreted by chaining segments incrementally, as in Landman 2008. Segmenting an interval brings out, it is argued, a notion of event that can be represented at bounded but variable granularities by strings of sets of temporal propositions, tracking change...