as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

As part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in Gricean CP and similar models.  In order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

Like most areas of medicine, the clinical laboratory [clinical pathology (CP)] is seeing a rapid introduction of new technologies and science. New biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, prediction of response to therapy, and future risk are being proposed at such a high rate that it is difficult to keep up with the literature. At the same time, the aging population of the developed world will dem...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between markers of socioeconomic position (years of full time education, access to a car or van, and occupational social class) and mid-range sleep quantity (6.5 to 8.5 hours). DATA SOURCE Office of National Statistics Omnibus Survey, May 1999. PARTICIPANTS 3000 households were randomly selected from the UK postcode address file and one person ...

This thesis studies Bayesian nonparametric regression through mixture models. These types of models are highly flexible, yet also numerous, which raises the question of how to choose among the models for the application at hand. In answer to this question, we derive predictive equations for the conditional mean and density and carefully analyse the quantities involved. Our main contributions to...

In the wake of the recent announcements that the human genome has been mapped, efforts to identify the genetic loci underlying personality function will grow and intensify. Much research has already been done in this area, but it has for the most part been limited to classical biometrical approaches designed to determine if personality has a heritable basis. These so-called "heritability" studi...