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.
زاد اهتمام الباحثين في السنوات الاخيرة بنماذج الانحدار شبه المعلمية وذلك اذ يمكن من خلالها دمج نماذج الانحدار اللامعلمي والمعلمي في ان واحد ومن ثم تكوين انموذج انحدار يتميز بامكانية التعامل مع مشكلة تعدد الابعاد الموجودة في النماذج اللامعلمية والتي تحصل عند زيادة عدد المتغيرات التوضيحية الداخلة في التحليل و من ثم تناقص دقة التقدير. فضلا عن امتياز هذا النوع من النماذج بمرونة في المجال التطبيقي مقارنةً
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Abstract The present study was Conducted to evaluate the effect of amixture of three species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi ( Glomus etunicatum , G. leptotichum and Rhizophagus intraradices ) in inducing the non-enzymatic antioxidants of tomato roots infected with Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. Lycopersici wich cause Fusarial wilt disease , and planted for 10 weeks in the presence of the organic matter ( peatmose) , using pot cultures in aplastic green house , Results indicated significant reduction of disease incidence percentage and infection rate of roots infected with the pathogen 4 weaks after mycorrhizal colonization in all treatments ( single , dual and trial interactions) . on the other hand mycorrhizal colonization of the roots in the
... Show MoreThe research aims to measure the extent of the impact of Earnings quality in the continuity of the company for a sample of private commercial banks listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange. The research sample included (15) of the listed commercial banks that continue to issue their financial statements for the period from (2009-2018).The research relied on three main models of measurement and on four steps. The first step is to measure the Persistence (Earnings Quality) by Depending the sustainability model. While the second step included measuring the Predictability of accounting profits by deriving the square root of the disparity of the estimation error from the first model Persistence (Earnings Quality), and the third step included
... Show MoreThis study sheds light on the syndromes (grammatical pairs) in the section of sympathy, especially the affection and sympathy according to the normative rule governed by the synthetic correlation of the elements of the Arabic sentence and their structural composition, which leads to a verbal presumption governing their association with each other (called).
One of the syndromes of the grammarians is that which is between the emotion and his income, so they follow their functional and structural conditions, and they have also noticed a phenomenon that leads to their incompatibility and prevents their direct contact through the occurrence of a separation between them resulting in their separation, which is called separation. Grammar).
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) represents the most prevalent type of acute leukemia in adults and is responsible for approximately 80% of all cases. The tumor suppressor gene (TP53) is a gene that has been frequently studied in cancer, and mutations in this gene account for about 50% of human cancers. This study aims to evaluate the correlation between two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene: rs1042522 and rs1642785, and a group of Iraqi patients suffering from pre-diagnostic acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Blood samples were collected from sixty patients (26 males and 34 females) and sixty controls (26 males and 34 females); these subjects were matched in gender, age, and ethnicity. Genomic DNA has been extracted fro
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The effect of 532nm Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) laser at power density of 5.234 W/cm2 on the growth of Gram-negative Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated. These bacteria were isolated from samples taken from burn and infected wound areas of 55 patients admitted to the burn-wound unit in Al-Kindy teaching hospital in Baghdad during the period from October 2012 to March 2013. Each isolate was identified using microscopic, cultural and biochemical methods. A standard bacterial suspension was prepared for each isolate. Serial dilutions were then prepared and a dilution of 10-5 was selected. Irradiation experiments included four groups: (L-P-) bacterial suspension in saline solution, (L-P+) bacteria
... Show Moreتُعد أبرز الإشكاليات التي تثيرها ظاهرة تعدد الجنسية مسألة تعيين القانون الواجب التطبيق على النزاع المشوب بعنصر أجنبي عندما تشير قواعد الإسناد الوطنية فيه إلى تطبيق القانون الشخصي, الأمر الذي ترتب عليه إجتهاد الفقه والقضاء في هذا المجال إلى معايير عدّة يمكن تطبيقها لترجيح أحدى الجنسيات التي يحملها متعدد الجنسية, فضلاً عن موقف التشريعات الوطنية الحديثة التي تبنت بعض ما رجح من هذه المعايير, ويمكن تج
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الآت الاطفال الموسيقية الشعبية والتقليدية في التربية