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The Scientific World Journal, 2001 Nature leads off this week with a story about a German proposal to build new collider for high-energy physicists named TESLA. Science leads with an article about a Soviet proposal to convert a former bioweapons lab called VECTOR into a center for virus ...
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A normative study of acronyms and acronym naming [PDF]
Behavior Research Methods, 2011 Acronyms are an idiosyncratic part of our everyday vocabulary. Research in word processing has used acronyms as a tool to answer fundamental questions such as the nature of the word superiority effect (WSE) or which is the best way to account for word-reading processes.
Izura, Christina, Playfoot, David
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The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature
eLife, 2020 Some acronyms are useful and are widely understood, but many of the acronyms used in scientific papers hinder understanding and contribute to the increasing fragmentation of science.
Adrian Barnett, Zoe Doubleday
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Frequency of prototypical acronyms in American TV series
Open Linguistics, 2023 This article aims at studying acronyms found in captions of six American TV series, as most scholarly articles only discuss abbreviations and acronyms in specialized texts, including their titles and abstracts as well. Hence, in the introductory part, we
Imre Attila
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Inconsistency of translating medical abbreviations and acronyms into the Arabic language [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2022 The paper identifies the challenges of translating variants of medical documents that include acronyms and abbreviations, which are standard in medicine, pharmacology, and healthcare contexts and documents, thus intending to examine the inconsistency of ...
Siddig Mohammed
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Language mechanisms of English-language Twitter: trends in the anti-language usage [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article is devoted to the linguistic mechanisms of Twitter, in particular, the active usage of so-called anti-language in English-language Twitter. The conceptual approaches to the study of the functioning of anti-language are considered.
Goncharova Elena A.
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Naturaleza sintáctica de las formas siglares: el cambio funcional
Estudios de Lingüística, 1987 The aim of this study is to analyse the various types of syntactic roles played by Spanish and English acronyms. These roles include those which derive from the original grammatical function of the acronyms and also those adopted as a result ...
Félix Rodríguez González
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Genealogy, 2020 All ethnic/racial terminology may be seen as a form of representation, whereby meanings are generated by a range of social categorizers in settings of popular culture, political discourse, and statistical governmentality.
Peter J. Aspinall
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JTCVS Open, 2022 Objectives: Academic medical literature is fraught with complex article-specific acronyms and abbreviations that can impair communication and make reading arduous.
Zachary G. Perez, BA +3 more
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