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Is academic writing becoming more informal? [PDF]
, 2017 Informality has become something of a contemporary mantra as, from the denim-clad offices of internet startups to the pages of business reports, we are encouraged to shed old constraints and relax conventions.
Hyland, Ken, Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
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The Capacities and Limitations of the Newspaper Column as a Tool for Creating the Image of Its Author [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this paper is to verify the capacities and limitations of the newspaper column (understood as a genre) as a tool for creating the image of its author.
Barańska-Szmitko, Anna
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Informality in academic English texts by Arabic and British scholars: A corpus study
Russian Journal of LinguisticsThere has long been a widespread belief that academic writing has to maintain a high degree of formality and impersonality. Despite this, it has been observed that there is a general tendency to use informal style in academic writing by writers from ...
Abuelgasim S. E. Mohammed +1 more
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Feature selection guided by structural information
The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2010 In generalized linear regression problems with an abundant number of features, lasso-type regularization which imposes an $\ell^1$-constraint on the regression coefficients has become a widely established technique. Deficiencies of the lasso in certain scenarios, notably strongly correlated design, were unmasked when Zou and Hastie [J. Roy.
Slawski, Martin +2 more
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & PolicyE-waste management in the Global South relies heavily on the informal sector. The associated workforce, vast in number, faces exposure to harmful substances and often represents society’s most vulnerable segments.
Nicolás Labra Cataldo +2 more
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Spatiotopic updating of visual feature information
Journal of Vision, 2017 Saccades shift the retina with high-speed motion. In order to compensate for the sudden displacement, the visuomotor system needs to combine saccade-related information and visual metrics. Many neurons in oculomotor but also in visual areas shift their receptive field shortly before the execution of a saccade (Duhamel, Colby, & Goldberg, 1992; Nakamura
Zimmermann, Eckart +2 more
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Urban Science, 2023 This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks the dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas.
Jota Samper, Weichun Liao
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Special feature: information theory and statistics [PDF]
Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science, 2019 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Housing systems in the Global South
PlaNext, 2021 This paper addresses the problem of accessing decent and affordable housing in the Global South, where the housing need is, in general, more problematic than in the Global North.
Alireza Vaziri Zadeh +2 more
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Lexical features of anti-language in the English-language alternative speech behaviour (on the Internet memes) [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article discusses the study of the language items of the English alternative speech behavior in the accompanying texts of the Internet memes. The necessity of studying the language of the Internet communities viewed as a special social form of anti ...
Shiryaeva Tatyana A., Avakova Marina L.
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