Hedging is a linguistic avoidance of full commitment or precision. It is the use of a vague language. The main objectives of this study are to: (1) identify and classify the linguistic devices which act as hedges; (2) to examine the semantic functions of these devices. This paper makes use of word class as well as clausal constructions to represent the forms of hedges in relation to certain grammatical categories, namely: adverbials, epistemic verbs, modal verbs, cognitive verbs, hypothetical constructions, anticipatory it-clause, and anticipatory constructions. The text analysed is the first presidential debate between Senator Barak Obama and Senator John McCain on the campus of the University of Mississippi, during the presidential election campaign of the Republican and the Democrat parties in America.The results show that politicians use hedges to mild their language in process to, so that not to be proved wrong later. This justification is that the claims they had already made were only an approximation to the statements.
Some experiments need to know the extent of their usefulness to continue providing them or not. This is done through the fuzzy regression discontinuous model, where the Epanechnikov Kernel and Triangular Kernel were used to estimate the model by generating data from the Monte Carlo experiment and comparing the results obtained. It was found that the. Epanechnikov Kernel has a least mean squared error.
Surgical site infections are the second most common type of adverse events occurring in hospitalized patients. Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis refers to the use of preoperative and postoperative antibiotics to decrease the incidence of postoperative wound infections. The objective of this study was to evaluate the antibiotic administration pattern for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis and the adherence to American Society of Health-System Pharmacists surgical antibiotic prophylaxis guideline in Medical City Teaching Hospitals/Baghdad. The medical records of one hundred patients who underwent elective surgical procedures were reviewed. Adherence to the recommendations of American society of health‑system pharmacists guideline was ass
... Show MoreIn our research, we dealt with one of the most important issues of linguistic studies of the Holy Qur’an, which is the words that are close in meaning, which some believe are synonyms, but in the Arabic language they are not considered synonyms because there are subtle differences between them. Synonyms in the Arabic language are very few, rather rare, and in the Holy Qur’an they are completely non-existent. And how were these words, close in meaning, translated in the translation of the Holy Qur’an by Almir Kuliev into the Russian language.
Since the end of World War II, the United States of America began to look at the Gulf States and Iraq due to the possession of huge quantities of oil, after taking the American oil depletion in order to tighten control over the oil of these countries, has pursued various means, political and military, in the framework of its strategy So that it could achieve this control, which focused on control of production and prices, for the conviction that those who control oil impose control over the political decision of the countries of the world.
The theory of the psychologist’s Piaget states that man passes through four stages; other says that mankind passes through five. At each stage, human learn new characteristics, values, skills, and cultures from different environment that differ from one society to another. Therefore, the cultures of societies vary according to the diversity of the environments. These environments also vary depending on the circumstances surrounding them, e.g., in war environment, the individual learns what he does not learn from living in safe environment. As the environment changes, the communicative message also changes. This message is subject to person, groups, organizations and parties and directed to a diverse audience in its orientations and bel
... Show MoreA simple, rapid and environmentally friendly dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction method-based spectrophotometric method for the trace determination of folic acid has been developed. The proposed method is based on the formation of a deep yellow product via reaction of folic acid and 1,2-naphthoquine-4-sulfonate at pH = 9. The formed complex was extracted using a mixture of chloroform and ethanol. Then, the tiny organic droplets were measured at λ = 520 nm. At the optimum conditions, linearity was ranged from 0.05 to 1.5 μg/mL for the standard and samples, with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.9996. The detection limits were 0.02, 0.027, 0.03, 0.02 and 0.04 μg/mL for standard, tablet (5 mg), tablet (1 mg), syrup and fl
... Show MoreThis research is an attempt to study and evaluate the maintenance function at Factory 7 - The State General Company for Leather Industries, and to design a computerized preventive maintenance system to design and to analyze preventive maintenance. To accomplish the objectives of this research, data were gathered and analyzed according to the reliability engineering criteria for the period 2/1– 30/6/2005, then a preventive maintenance plan was designed for each machine of the sample study using the computerized system designed in this research. A Monte Carlo Simulation methodology was used for the purpose of evaluating the performance of the preventive maintenance plan of each machine for one year. The simulation res
... Show Moreهدف البحث إلى إعداد تمرينات تعليمية بأسلوب التعلم بالاستفسار في درس كرة اليد، والتعرف على تأثير هذهِ التمرينات في تحسين الصلابة العقلية وتعلم دقة التصويب البعيد بكرة اليد لدى طلاب الصف الرابع الإعدادي، اذ لحظ الباحث في التدريس الحاجة إلى دعم الصلابة العقلية للمتعلمين الذين يؤدون المهارات بشكلٍ متواصل خلال الجزء التطبيقي من القسم الرئيس من الدرس لزيادة تفاعل الطلاب مع المادة التعليمية المقدمة لهم لاسي
... Show Moreهدفت الدراسة إلى قياس النشاط الكهربائي (المعدل والقمة) للعضلة الصدرية العظيمة لجهتي اليمين واليسار في تمرين الضغط على المسطبة المستوية باستعمال الأثقال الحرة وجهاز سميث، والتعرف على الفروق في النشاط الكهربائي للعضلة الصدرية العظيمة اليمين واليسار في تمرين الضغط على المسطبة المستوية باستعمال الأثقال الحرة وجهاز سميث وفي الشدد (50% و 75% و100%). واستعمل الباحث المنهج التجريبي بأسلوب المقارنة. وتم اختيار عينة
... Show Moreالمستخلص يوسف حاييم برينر الأديب اليهودي من افراد الهجرة اليهودية الثانية الى فلسطين, أغنى الأدب العبري بالكثير من النتاجات التي عالجت مواضيع مهمة في المجتمع اليهودي في فلسطين. روايته (منذ البداية) والتي صدرت بعد وفاته, عالجت مواضيع مجتمعية مهمة تخص اليهود المهاجرين في موجة الهجرة الثانية. وكانت تلك المواضيع تعنى بمعاناتهم وعلاقاتهم فيما بينهم. كذلك ركز برينر في روايته هذه على أستخدام الأسماء التق
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