When the citation reflects the significance

The study contains a very good list of references, with about 350 academic reference items. Apparently, many well-known authors are shown on it, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Susan Greenwood, Arthur Kleinman, Claude Lévi-Strauss, to name just a few. And one author in the references is from our ISR SDAG Lab, Quan-Hoang Vuong.

Organisational Skills in Academic Writing: A Study on Coherence and Cohesion in Pakistani Research Abstracts

Writing requires a suitable and strategic use of language with communicative potential and structural correctness. The use of coherence and cohesion helps create communicative potential and structural correctness in texts. This study aims to investigate the use of cohesive items in the abstracts of Pakistani research articles and thereby determine what type of cohesive items are frequently used by writers. In addition, the study aims to know what functions the said writers achieve through the most frequently used cohesive items. For this purpose, 50 abstracts were retrieved from two famous Pakistani research journals (25 articles per journal), which were developed into a corpus for the study and analysed through AntConc. 3.4.4.0. The results revealed that Pakistani research writers used reference items the most frequently to achieve “directive” as well as “referential” functions. On the basis of these findings, the study concluded that Pakistani research article writers organised information in abstracts using reference items the most frequently and they were mainly concerned with directive as well as referential functions of meaning. The results also showed that the said writers organised texts on a syntactic level only, which implied that they should organise texts on a semantic level also. This would be possible with the use of repetition devices.

The Correlative Analysis of Testing Results of Dynamic Compaction Gravel Clay Foundation

In this paper, we conducted some experiments as geotechnical test, standard penetration test, dynamic penetration test, loading capacity test on the dynamic compaction gravel clay foundation in Guangdong Province. We also conduct the lineal regression analysis and work out the normalized formula and the minimum-maximum equations based on PLT and other tests. We also make comparisons between the fitting equations in this paper and that in other specifications and reference items. Finally, the testing methods and empirical formulas available for the evaluation of the dynamic compaction gravel clay foundation are advanced for further surveys and designs.

Preclinical Safety of Baxter's Recombinant Factor IX

Abstract 4654 Baxter has developed a rFIX product which is produced by a genetically engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line in a cell culture medium free from any animal or human proteins. The objective of this preclinical study-program was to evaluate the safety of Baxter's rFIX in different species. The preclinical program included studies on established models of general safety pharmacology (conscious, telemetered cynomolgus monkey), thrombogenicity (rabbit, Wessler test), single and repeated dose toxicity (mouse, rat, cynomolgus monkey), local tolerance (rabbit), and comparative immunogenicity (mouse, rat, cynomolgus monkey). Commercially available licensed rFIX and pdFIX served as active reference items. Thrombogenicity studies showed no thrombogenic potential of Baxter's rFIX. General safety pharmacology revealed no adverse effects on clinical signs, cardiovascular or respiratory variables. Single dose toxicity studies in mice, administered at doses of up to 7500 IU/kg BW, and repeated administration of Baxter's rFIX in rats and cynomolgus monkeys, administered doses of up to 750 IU/kg, confirmed the safety of the new product. Furthermore, Baxter's rFIX was well tolerated at the injection site after intravenous injection. No differences in immunogenicity between Baxter's rFIX and the reference items were revealed by comparative immunology studies. This good safety profile of Baxter's rFIX was the basis for proceeding with human trials, which have recently been initiated. Disclosures: Dietrich: Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Kubik:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Auer:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Wuersch:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Reipert:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Horling:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Wolfsegger:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Ehrlich:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Scheiflinger:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Schwarz:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment. Muchitsch:Baxter Innovations GmbH: Employment.

The Effect of Anaphoric References and Noun Phrase Organizers on Paragraph Comprhension

Based on Halliday & Hasan's theory of textual cohesion, anaphoric references and noun phrase organizers may serve as cohesive ties linking separate sentences into unified paragraphs. It was hypothesized their presence would affect paragraph comprehension and reading time. 12 experimental paragraphs were constructed. Alternate conditions incorporated noun phrase organizers and references. 119 college students read paragraphs and completed a multiple choice recognition test. Analysis of variance indicated only the noun phrase condition was significant. Within subject repeated measures analysis of variance indicated the influence of the noun phrase organizer could be attributed to its position in the initial sentence of the paragraph. No difference in time scores by paragraph condition was indicated. That lexical but not reference items influenced memory is discussed in terms of “old” and “new” information and alternate “checking” systems.