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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
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Molecular Carcinogenesis, 2011 AbstractMicroRNAs are a class of non‐coding molecules found to regulate a variety of cellular functions in health and disease. Dysregulation of microRNAs is involved in liver disease, especially hepatocarcinogenesis. Since primary hepatic malignancies are typically characterized by late diagnosis, frequent recurrence, and poor response to adjuvant ...
Karakatsanis, A. +5 more
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The mirative and scalar meaning of even
Anglophonia, 2018 The analysis I develop here draws on the concept of mirativity (DeLancey 1987) and on Kay’s (1990) insight into the scalar nature of even. I show that even calls for the reconstruction of an implicit scale, on which the element highlighted by this ...
Olivier Simonin
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Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the semantic and syntactic properties of all-clefts (All I ate for dinner was a salad). The main characteristic of all-clefts is the inference that what is designated by the cleft is not much (the “smallness ...
Jos Tellings
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Expression of Circulating miR-155, miR-21, miR-221, miR-30a, miR-34a and miR-29a: Comparison of Colonic and Rectal Cancer [PDF]
In Vivo, 2018 Colorectal cancer is an increasing cause of death. Circulating microRNAs (miRs) could be great diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of colorectal cancer, but further continuation of their utility is needed for their comprehensive application.Twenty-seven patients with colonic cancer, 16 with rectal cancer and 12 healthy volunteers as controls, were ...
Enikő, Orosz +3 more
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The association of plasma levels of miR-146a, miR-27a, miR-34a, and miR-149 with coronary artery disease [PDF]
Molecular Biology Reports, 2021 Abstract Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is considered to be one of the most pivotal causes of death in the world. Over the past two decades, significant changes occurred in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of CAD, which has helped reduce mortality rates.
Sara Hosseinpor +4 more
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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019 The interrogative element cómo ‘how’ of Spanish has a double meaning: that of manner and that causal. With the former, it behaves like a typical interrogative element, but, with the latter, its behavior manifests the specificities of por qué ‘why’.
Bernat Castro López
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Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview
Open Linguistics, 2018 In this introductory paper, we will briefly introduce FDG and its treatment of systems of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, polarity, mirativity and localization, as well as their lexical counterparts.
Hengeveld Kees, Olbertz Hella
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Новые исследования Тувы, 2020 The article presents a comparative analysis of secondary forms that are based on semantically and functionally correlated participial forms in the Yakut and Tuvan languages.
Gavril G. Filippov, Bailak Ch. Oorzhak
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‘Hot news’ and perfect change: mirativity and the semantics/pragmatics interface
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018 This paper proposes an analysis of the hot news Present Perfect (PP) building on Nishiyama & Koenig’s (2010) analysis of the perfect as denoting a perfect state introduced by a variable that needs to be pragmatically enriched.
Marie-Eve Ritz
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