Abstract Background Multinodular goitre (MNG) is a common disorder characterised by an enlargement of the thyroid, occurring as a compensatory response to hormonogenesis impairment.The incidence of MNG is dependent on sex (female:male ratio 5:1) and several reports have documented a genetic basis for the disease.Last year we mapped a MNG locus to c
A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of hate speech in German and Polish social media posts
The present paper investigates linguistic data that include hate speech motivated by the alleged or real ethnic or national identity of its addressee in German and Polish Internet-based Led Lantern communication.Focusing on hate speech on Facebook, this paper contributes to the studies of hate speech (e.g.Meibauer, 2013; Meibauer, 2021) in online c
Representing Aspectual Meaning in Sentence: Computational Modeling Based on Chinese
Situation types can be viewed as the foundation of representation of sentence meaning.Noting that situation types cannot be determined by verbs alone, recent studies often focus on situation type prediction in terms of the combination of different linguistic constituents at the sentence level instead of lexically marked situation types.However, in
Fashion copyright in Russia: modern trends
Objective: to study the regularities and features of the Russian market of fashion copyright goods.Methods: dialectical approach, system approach, analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis method.Results: the main types of copyright goods in the fashion market are identified that differ in quality and cost and, as a result, in their presence in var