... chart of subject sample derivation for the population -based, case-control study of chronic fatigue syndrome in Georgia, Flow 2004–2005 Flow chart of subject sample derivation for the population -based, ... study of chronic fatigue syndrome in Georgia, USA, 2004–2005 Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:67 cut-off score, and met CFS cut-off ... supplements Based on their main effects, we grouped drugs into a smaller number of major categories For the purpose of this study we kept the major drug categories similar to our previous study of drug...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
... chart of subject sample derivation for the population -based, case-control study of chronic fatigue syndrome in Georgia, Flow 2004–2005 Flow chart of subject sample derivation for the population -based, ... study of chronic fatigue syndrome in Georgia, USA, 2004–2005 Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:67 cut-off score, and met CFS cut-off ... supplements Based on their main effects, we grouped drugs into a smaller number of major categories For the purpose of this study we kept the major drug categories similar to our previous study of drug...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 1
... lack of transparency in its estimates of the damage, the attitude of its then-CEO, Tony Hayward as well as its immediate responses to the needs of the Gulf residents accounted for most of the ... first in a study conducted by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda of the University of Maryland in terms of transparency The Guardian was awarded the National Newspaper of the ... employees worldwide as of December 2011, sales of $375,517 million in 2011 and a market value, even after the recent losses, of more than $100 billion It is has a market capitalization of £81.4 billion...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 2
... Deignan’s notions of a range of 44 metaphorical types will be taken into account for the analysis as it is vital to have an awareness of the cline of metaphors that are often the result of specific ... exhaustive analysis of all the semantic domains is adopted Hence, a thorough analysis of the metaphorical framing of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill has to be based on a representative corpus of media articles ... as a result of the discourse The hierarchical aspect of the 41 diagram is encapsulated by the size of the circles that essentially captures the relative frequencies of the range/type of metaphors...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 3 2
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 3 3
... predominant scenarios tend to be those of DANGER (35 out of 127 tokens), CRIME (29 out of 127) and HEALTH & SICKNESS (18 out of 127) respectively A deeper analysis of this preliminary statistic seems ... the use of resources and technology in order to achieve the relevant definitions of success A closer examination of the conflation of these three scenarios foregrounds the embodiment of the affected ... result of criminal negligence by those in positions of power The personification of the environment and the ruptured oil well as VICTIMS/ PATIENTS provides a legitimate account of the complex of...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 3 1
... dictionaries based on a systematically processed corpus of 220 million words of contemporary English, which is important for the formulation of metaphors in contemporary news texts The use of corpus -based ... the pressure of the oil spewing out of the well/ the experimental procedure will help stem the flow of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico/ the picture of an uncontrolled gusher of oil spewing ... occurring words The importance of examining the co-text is best captured by Hunston’s (2007) study of the phenomenon of semantic prosody where the “attitudinal context of a lexical item may be contingent...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 4
... the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Americans as well as the survival of the two other international firms implicated in the oil spill (Houston -based Halliburton and Swiss -based Transocean) ... metaphorical density of 158 metaphor types out of 291, 566 words whilst the WP-corpus contains 164 metaphor types out of a slightly larger base of 293, 519 words Much like Semino’s (2002) study on the ... political aspect of the spill i.e in avoiding the “mistakes made by President George W Bush” instead of focusing on the core issue of alleviating the suffering of the true victims of the spill –...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 5
... UNDER SIEGE VICTIM OF BETRAYAL VICTIM OF BIASED TREATMENT • VICTIM OF EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT VICTIM OF PARTISAN POLITICS VICTIM OF UNEXPECTED COSTS VICTIM UNDER SEVERE THREAT VICTIM OF UNFAIR LEGISLATION ... basis for the underlying principle of retribution and restitution throughout this comparative metaphorical study Text 5.1 is the result of the expansion of one of the concordance lines in Figure ... in the portrayal of BP 5.3.9 A comparative analysis: The portrayal of BP and the foregrounding of nationalist interests Table 5.4 provides a comparative snapshot of the range of conceptual metaphors...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 6 3
... advocating a critical approach to the study of metaphors in discourse Finally, it is also important to note that modern consumers of news texts are assailed by a gamut of alternative discourses outside ... system of shared values and metaphorical evaluations It is these particular sets of metaphorical evaluations and group ideologies that result in the potential socio-economic manipulation of the ... to temper the strengths of the claims in this thesis pertaining to the influence of metaphor in discourse, as media consumers cannot be merely seen as passive recipients of editorial ideological...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 6 1
... complete realisation of Phase Two/Step Four in the IICM: The formal representation of the identified complex of metaphors through the adaptation of Grady, Taub & Morgan’s (1996) concept of Metaphorical ... (seven out of eight instances) This aptly foregrounds the main preoccupation of the victims of the spill: that of economic survival and monetary compensation The intertwined moral axioms of “victim’s ... specific choice of analogy -based metaphors A more detailed exposition of Grady et al (1996) can be seen in section 3.3.2 of this thesis This useful diagrammatic representation of such a metaphorical...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 7
... empirically -based Oster’s study on the linguistic and metaphorical manifestations of “fear” as an emotion concept was based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English, a large general corpus of 300 ... predominant metaphorical representations of the key entities under study Hence, a longitudinal approach to the study of the metaphors from the same issue across a range of different domains (scientific ... for the purpose of establishing a comparative study Finally, the typological classifications of the metaphorical expressions also differ in this thesis Oster’s in-depth study of the metaphorical...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
The gulf of mexico oil spill a corpus based study of metaphors in british and american media discourse 62
... Fig 6.10 A representation of the metaphorical compound - ‘Oil’ (WP) 292 Fig 6.11 A representation of the metaphorical compound - ‘Oil’ (G) THE OIL IS AN ADVANCING ... (G) THE OIL IS AN ADVANCING ENEMY THE BP BLOWOUT IS A COLLISION WITH AN ADVANCING VEHICLE ANALOGY -BASED METAPHORS ORIENTATIONAL/SPATIAL METAPHORS THE SHARE PRICE IS A STRUCTURE/ MEDIA CRITICISM ... CLOTH)/ THE)OIL)SPILL)IS)A)THREAT)(WAR/CRIME)) THE CENTRE IS THE CORE (LOCATION) THE+ SPREADING OF CONTROVERSIAL NEWS IS + CLEANING THE STARTING A FIRE/RIVAL OIL COMPANIES POLITICS IS WAR OIL...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:23
A population based study of copy number variations and regions of homozygosity in singapore and swedish populations using genome wide SNP genotyping arrays
... and methods 73 4.1 Study I (Genomic copy number variations in three Southeast Asian 73 populations) 4.2 Study II (A population -based study of copy number variants and regions of 76 homozygosity ... included in Study II In summary, the four studies in my thesis are: Study I – Genomic copy number variations in three Southeast Asian populations Study II – A population -based study of copy number ... populations Journal of Human Genetics 56: 552-560 (2011) Teo SM, Ku CS*, Naidoo N, Hall P, Chia KS, Salim A, Pawitan Y A population -based study of copy number variants and regions of homozygosity...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:47
An eeg based study of unintentional sleep onset
... EEG BASED STUDY OF UNINTENTIONAL SLEEP ONSET MERVYN YEO VEE MIN (B.Eng (Hons.), NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DIVISION OF BIOENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ... composed of a train of alpha activity with a minimum amplitude of 20 μV 35 Stage Alpha wave intermittent (A): Epoch composed of a train of more than 50% of alpha activity with a minimum amplitude of ... TABLE OF CONTENTS ii SUMMARY vi LIST OF PUBLICATIONS viii LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF FIGURES xi INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview 1.2 Objectives of this Study 1.3 Outline of Thesis 1 BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:02
A corpus based study of educational discourse the SCORE approach
... School Subjects Profiles of high student engagement by Grade Levels Profiles of high student engagement by Streams (P5) Profiles of high student engagement by Streams (S3) Profiles of high student ... Class Size Profiles of high student engagement by Teacher Gender Profiles of high student engagement by Teacher Age Profiles of high student engagement by Teacher Experience Profiles of high student ... transcripts List of index of speakers in the transcripts Breakdown of the lexical corpus of 455 transcripts of classroom discourse A list of the selected features and annotation tools Breakdown of the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:33
Study of wave wind interaction at a seawall using a numerical wave channel
... wind The work in this study is the first approach to quantify wind effect on wave overtopping The wind input was only of “academic” case (linear wind profile and only 1m long fetch) and not of ... channel Then, a series of numerical experiments are carried out for the investigation of wind effects on wave overtopping and wave quantities as well as for the study of wind modification by wave ... effect of wind on the wave breaking condition resulting the modification of the condition of wave energy dissipation in the surf zone Therefore, it creates the complicated effects of wind on...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2017, 15:56
Volume 2 wind energy 2 06 – energy yield of contemporary wind turbines
... regime A: Wind Machine Wind regime A: Wind Machine Wind regime A: Wind Machine Wind regime A: Wind Machine Wind regime B: Wind Machine Wind regime B: Wind Machine Wind regime B: Wind Machine Wind ... Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine Wind Machine 2000 Wind Machine Annual energy production (MWh) 14 000 Wind ... the wind park level, first taking into account that the total wind power produced by a wind park of y wind turbines in the course of time t is the sum of the electricity generation of all wind turbines,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/12/2017, 14:16
DESIGN MONOPILE FOUNDATION OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES
... of the installed cost Hence, optimization of foundation design for offshore wind turbines is crucial for the development of offshore wind farms “Optimization of steel monopile offshore wind turbines” ... form part of the substructure 12 Figure I.2: Mechanical system of an offshore wind turbine As a result of offshore wind turbines development, so far there are four main classes of offshore foundations ... (4.8) Wind turbine classes Offshore wind turbines shall be designed to withstand safely the wind conditions defined for the site or the selected wind turbine class For an offshore wind turbine...
Ngày tải lên: 19/04/2018, 08:00
Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel pot
... g e WIND TURBINE HEALTH IMPACT STUDY List of Tables 1: Sources of Aerodynamic Sound from a Wind Turbine 2: Literature -based Measurements of Wind Turbines 12 3: Descriptions of ... overview of the characteristics of wind turbines with some mention of the optimization parameters of interest Appendix A provides a detailed explanation of wind energy The main features of modern wind ... Upwind and downwind turbines have different sound characteristics, primarily due to the interaction of the blades with the zone of reduced wind speed behind the tower in the case of downwind turbines...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20