Search results for "Scientific"

Evidential al parecer: Between the physical and the cognitive meaning in Spanish scientific prose of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries

2015

Abstract Some of the evidential particles and adverbs in Spanish are believed to have developed during the 18th and 19th centuries. This also coincides with the consolidation of scientific writing in Spanish, a genre that holds a special relation with the expression of sources of information. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to study the evolution of the Spanish evidential discourse particle al parecer (‘seemingly, apparently’) in scientific texts of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Our analysis shows that in the period under review the occurrences of the evidential particle al parecer were dominant, but they were not the only uses of this construction. It coexisted…

Letters to the editor: Still vigorous after all these years?

2006

Abstract This paper investigates Letters to the Editor, a section in biomedical journals used by scientists since the early 19th century to question already validated research. The aim of this study is to highlight some of the discursive strategies and to bring to the fore the linguistic characteristics of this particular genre, to analyze its goal, role and use within a community of French researchers. It is based on a corpus of 200 letters selected from two scientific journals in the fields of biology and medicine: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The Lancet published between 1999 and 2002. The strategy of questioning is analyzed as an explicit and implicit mode of criticism…

Los icones de varones ilustres: un género emblemático

2015

ABSTRACT: In this study I analyze a group of books structured around a variant of the classical emblem based upon an illustrious personage, in which a portrait serves as the pictura and the name constitutes the motto. My purpose is to introduce what I consider to be a subgenre of emblematic literature and highlight some of its major works. I hope to spur interest in the further study of this subgenre, and thus move towards a more suitable conceptualization of the emblem for the purpose of its scientific analysis. KEYWORDS: icons, illustrious men, portrait, emblem theory RESUMEN: En este articulo se analiza un grupo de libros estructurados con una variante del emblema clasico construida en t…

The teaching of frozen expressions through the graphic novel Persépolis

2019

The constant search for suitable teaching materials to achieve the linguistic skills provided by a language teaching course, finds in authentic documents an important instrument for teaching foreign languages. The scientific literature attesting to the effectiveness of the authentic material is wide and consolidated; indeed, a text conceived by a native for a native, and, therefore, not developed for the sole purpose of teaching a foreign language, is intrinsically carrying a cultural richness and a linguistic variety, which are rarely present in any didactic artifact. The authentic material therefore represents an opportunity to meet the fixed expressions that are part of the communicative…

Les éditorialistes : auteurs scientifiques ou acteurs sociaux

2007

Les éditoriaux peuvent être perçus comme une interface entre la recherche scientifique et l'opinion publique. Nous avons cherché à savoir si l'objectif des éditorialistes scientifiques n'est que de poursuivre une tradition journalistique, ou de mettre en œuvre des stratégies idéologiques ou sociétales, justifiant ainsi leur raison d'être dans la société au sens large. Cette étude présente les thèmes sélectionnés dans deux revues médicales britanniques de grande réputation sur une période de deux ans, ainsi que les liens potentiels avec les articles de recherche publiés dans les mêmes journaux scientifiques. Le but et l'utilisation même des éditoriaux sont analysés tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'…

Getting out of the closet: Scientific authorship of literary fiction and knowledge transfer

2020

Trabajo presentado a la DRUID Society Conference, celebrada en New York (US) del 12 al 14 de junio de 2017.

Spanish Chemistry Textbooks During Late 18th Century: Building up a New Genre of Scientific Literature

2006

SISTEMI VERDI COME CULTURA RIGENERATIVA: STRUMENTI E TECNOLOGIE

2021

The study analyzes and proposes in the historical and in the area immediately to it adjacent, the "values-nature" of the buildings through the creation of gardens wall and vertical gardens in the elevatiloy of non-monumental buildings. The study deepens in particular the specificity of the garden roof and the garden vertical, recognizing benefits and critical issues that distinguish these green systems for construction. It also deepens the concept of resilience in close relationship sustainability and regenerative design applied to the built environment. The theme of regenerative design is studied and promoted as an adaptive strategy at the design stage; it requires you to leave nature stre…

Tratti innovativi di una pedagogia fondamentale di stile fenomenologico-ermeneutico

2015

Presento alcune riflessioni sulla pedagogia fondamentale di stile fenomenologico-ermeneutico come la intendo e la svolgo nel mio lavoro di ricerca; vorrei evidenziarne quanto mi sembra oggettivamente rilevante per il dibattito pedagogico odierno. Un primo tratto rilevante è la sua caratteristica struttura epistemologica che ho proposto di definire logos integrato; significa una speciale (felice, dal mio punto di vista) convivenza tra paradigma scientifico e paradigma filosofico. Un secondo tratto rilevante è il seguente: nel modello di pedagogia fondamentale che vado elaborando, in coerenza con lo stile messo in atto, le due forme di razionalità, quella fenomenologica e quella ermeneutica, …

The Deadly Quartet (Covid-19, Old Age, Lung Disease, and Heart Failure) Explains Why Coronavirus-Related Mortality in Northern Italy Was So High

2020

Since its outbreak in China at the end of 2019, the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was characterized by both easy spreading and high mortality. The latter proved to be way more elevated in the North of Italy -with a peak of 18.4% in region Lombardia and even 31% in the city of Bergamo and surrounding county- than in the rest of the world. In an attempt to conceptualize the reasons for such a dramatic situation, four key elements have been identified: COVID-19 itself, old age, lung disease, and heart failure. Their harmful combination has been named “The deadly quartet”. The underlying risk factors, among which a lot of them are distinctive features of the population in northern Italy, …