The article deals with heterogeneity of banquet speech genre in English ritual discourse.Defined in terms of cognitive and discursive approach, the utterance is a simple or complex communicative action serving for a definite purpose and realized through/via a speech act or a sequence of speech acts.The choice of speech act is determined by the stra
Industry sector has an important impact on primary energy consumption at the international level, and solar energy constitutes a real alternative to cover these energy needs partially.Among thermosolar concentration technologies, Linear Fresnel Collector (LFC) technology has some advantages that make it more accessible to industries.With the aim of
Background/Objectives: Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) is an enzyme expressed in the intestinal brush border, which may exert anti-inflammatory effects by detoxifying lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), thereby preventing metabolic disorders.Various food components have been reported to influence IAP activity.However, few studies have evaluated the e
ABSTRACT Background: Racial variation in the clinical presentation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its response to treatment is well known.Ethnicity and associated socioeconomic factors make it necessary to study the effectiveness of the antirheumatic drugs such as sulfasalazine (SSZ) in our RA patients, and to what extent it interacts with the no
Primordial germ cell (PGC) specification occurs early in development.PGC specifiers have been identified in Drosophila, mouse, and human but remained elusive in most animals.Here we identify the RNA-binding protein Dnd as a critical PGC specifier in the medaka fish (Oryzias latipes).Dnd depletion specifically abolished PGCs, and its overexpression