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Sibbaldia, 2019 In May 2014, the first planting of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) conservation hedge took place, when the Reverend Anne Brennan planted a tree which had originated as a cutting from the ancient and historic European yew, Taxus baccata, in the
Martin Gardner +3 more
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Hedges and Boosters in Student Scientific Articles within the Framework of a Pragmatic Metadiscourse
Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023 The ability of students to edit scientific papers is still low, especially in mastering the use of hedge (fencing devices) and boosters (strengthening devices).
Mimas Ardhianti +3 more
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浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2003 Monthly distribution characteristics of rain capacity and rainfall erosion force, water and soil loss occurrence characteristics, soil infiltration characteristics and the connection between soil infiltration and runoff and soil loss were studied under ...
LI Xin-ping +4 more
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Preface as a Paratext in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield: A Pragmatic Study [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2022 This study is aimed at identifying the pragmatic functions of the preface as a paratext in Chalres Dickens’s David Copperfield. To fulfill this aim, the study adopts an eclectic model combining Searle’s (1979) speech acts, Aristotle’s (2007) rhetorical ...
Iman Ra'ouf Muhammad
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena.
Sarah E Murray
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MediAzioni, 2023 This paper aims to investigate how empathy and assertiveness are expressed linguistically in two corpora (MUJERES y HOMBRES) of fifteen TED talks each, with a view to identifying whether the women in the sample adopt a more empathetic communicative style
Maria Annese
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Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022 One of the canonical uses of jakby in Polish is that of the Lakoffian hedge, which modifies the propositional content of an utterance by pointing to its fuzziness, inexactitude or approximation. In conversational speech the word is frequently put to excessive use, which appears to significantly deviate from the prescribed one, and as such deserves ...
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Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2023 AbstractGoal-based investing is concerned with reaching a monetary investment goal by a given finite deadline, which differs from mean-variance optimization in modern portfolio theory. In this article, we expand the close connection between goal-based investing and option hedging that was originally discovered in Browne (Adv Appl Probab 31(2):551–577 ...
Thomas Krabichler, Marcus Wunsch
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Nicole Branger +2 more
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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