The extent of academic spam within academic medicine
Background: Researchers and physicians frequently receive unsolicited academic invitations from unknown sources, many of which are irrelevant to their area of expertise. These invitations often originate from questionable organizations.
Asha Behdinan, MD +2 more
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This article concerns public health nurses' invitations to ask questions about HPV-vaccination. The invitations are addressed to children and their parents.
Guusje Jol +3 more
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"Eating alone is painful" : an interdisciplinary and ethnographically inspired sociolinguistic investigation into Vietnamese mealtime ritual invitations : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand [PDF]
Invitations are a commonplace part of language ritual at meals in Vietnamese culture. They are verbal and non-verbal signals extended around everyday meals and interpreted as offers or invitations for food and/or company at meals.
Dang, Thi Mai Duyen
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Insistence among family and friends in Quiteño Spanish: from connectedness to empowerment? [PDF]
Drawing on sociopragmatics and some ethnographic work in communication studies, in this paper I examine the occurrence of insistence in interactions among family and friends in middle-class Quiteño society (Ecuador) in relation to suggestions, offers and
Placencia, Maria Elena
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Guiding Section 5: Comments on the Commissioners [PDF]
FTC Commissioners Joshua Wright and Maureen Ohlhausen have proposed that the Commission adopt Guidelines for the application of Section 5 to Unfair Methods of Competition.
Salop, Steven C.
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Феномен запрошення як передзавершальна метакомунікативна одиниця діалогічного дискурсу прощання [PDF]
The article deals with the problem of usage of invitations in farewell discourse. Invitations are analyzed as regulators of final stage of dialogue interaction, before-final metacommunicative unit.В статті розглядається вживання запрошень у ...
Kosenko, Yuliia Viktorivna +2 more
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The use of paraphrasing in investigative interviews [PDF]
Objective Young children’s descriptions of maltreatment are often sparse thus creating the need for techniques that elicit lengthier accounts. One technique that can be used by interviewers in an attempt to increase children’s reports is ‘paraphrasing ...
Angela D. Evans +29 more
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Narrative coherence in multiple forensic interviews with child witnesses alleging physical and sexual abuse [PDF]
This study investigated the narrative coherence of children's accounts elicited in multiple forensic interviews. Transcriptions of 56 police interviews with 28 children aged 3–14 years alleging physical and sexual abuse were coded for markers of ...
Bennett W. L. +4 more
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