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Agent Demotion in German and Polish
This paper provides a contrastive account of agent demotion in German and Polish. While agent demotion is a relatively broad term that is often used including mere backgrounding, the focus is on lexical and morphosyntactic means that allow for agents to
Jochen Matthies
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A critical discourse analysis of narrative discrepancies in Pakistani news channel headlines
This case study investigates how the same tweet is treated linguistically with different narratives. Taking the case of the tweet of Maryam Nawaz, a Pakistani female politician, we analyze through different linguistic interpretations the selected news ...
Awais Rubbani +2 more
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Interlanguage: A Case Study of English Narrative Discourse of an Indonesian Studying in the U.S.
The aim of this study is to see how an Indonesian studying in the U.S. uses English tense and aspects to produce meaning oral narrative discourses. The Indonesian’s verbatim of narrative discourse is compared to that of a Minnesota-born English speaker ...
Stefanus Angga B. Prima
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ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks +5 more
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N o subject in the field of nursing deserves more serious thought than the content of college programs. In the future, preparation for nursing in colleges and junior colleges will become increasingly important, for it has already been determined that one third of the present members of the profession ought to hold bachelors degrees (1).
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Background Backgrounding (BKG), the stage between weaning and finishing, significantly impacts feedlot performance in beef cattle; however, the contributions of the rumen microbiome to this growth stage remain unexplored.
Bobwealth O. Omontese +6 more
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ABSTRACT Background Combined oral contraceptive (COC) use in obese adult women dramatically increases the relative risk of developing a pulmonary embolism (PE). The risk of a PE in obese adolescent females taking contraceptives is currently unknown. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) and contraceptive
John Puetz, Joanne Salas
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Background and Rationale [PDF]
In 2011, CDC published the first CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). This report examined health disparities in the United States associated with various characteristics, including race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, disability status, and geography.
Ana Penman-Aguilar +3 more
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Post-weaning feed efficiency decreased in progeny of higher milk yielding beef cows
Current trends in the beef industry focus on selecting production traits with the purpose of maximizing calf weaning weight; however, such traits may ultimately decrease overall post-weaning productivity.
J.T. Mulliniks +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background Fertility preservation (FP) is increasingly integrated into the care of pediatric patients exposed to gonadotoxic therapy or conditioning for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), yet perioperative data in infants and toddlers remain scarce.
Kerstin Saalabian +13 more
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