The social cognition of medical knowledge, with special reference to childhood epilepsy

This paper arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge that are constituted in the three different text types analysed; and the relationship between these different types of medical knowledge and the discursive features of each text type. The paper argues that there is a cognitive dimension to the human experience of understanding and talking about one specialized from of medical knowledge. It recommends that texts be studied in medical communication courses not just in terms of their discrete formal features but also critically, in terms of the knowledge which they produce, transmit and reproduce

plot x species matrix

This file contains the raw plots x species matrix (percentage cover) for all 48 plots, over four consecutive years. Plot name, grassland identifier, treatment and time since treatment are given as extra columns

population information

This file contains information on the 27 populations. %F denotes the percentage of female plants (opposed to hermaphroditic ones) in the population. Pop. size is the populations size expressed in the number of individual plants. Age is the age of the population. n=new (founder): o=old (established)

Assignment of individuals of recent populations (columns) to old populations (rows).

<p>Assignment of individuals of recent populations (columns) to old populations (rows).</p

GenAlEx input file

This file contains the raw microsatellite (SSR) dataset in GenAlEx format. This file can be converted to other formats using GenAlEx. SSR data for 27 diploid populations of Origanum vulgare, each consisting of 20 individual plants characterized by 10 SSR loci

Isolation effect on genetic assignment.

<p>Correlation between the number of individuals of recent populations assigned to a source (old) population and the distance of the recent population to this source population (<i>β</i> = –0.25, <i>P</i> = 0.018). Data points represent assignment data from all 14 recent populations (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067255#pone-0067255-t004" target="_blank">Table 4</a>).</p

Parameter estimates of performed bootstrapping analysis on pairwise differentiation for recent and old populations and differences between recent and old populations tested based on bootstrap t-tests.

<p>All tests are based on 9999 bootstraps. CI: 95% confidence intervals. Significance: ** 0.01≥ <i>P</i>-value > 0.001 *** 0.001≥ <i>P</i>-value.</p

Map of the sampled recent populations (italics) and old populations (bold) of <i>Origanum vulgare</i>.

<p>Pie slices correspond to population membership to the four genetic groups defined by the Bayesian assignment analysis of Structure <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067255#pone.0067255-Pritchard1" target="_blank">[55]</a>. Group 1: blue, group 2: red, group 3: green, group 4: purple. Population codes correspond to those in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067255#pone-0067255-t001" target="_blank">table 1</a>.</p

Appendix B. Simulation results to test the parameter-fitting procedure for the modified incidence function model.

Simulation results to test the parameter-fitting procedure for the modified incidence function model

Study area in the Viroin valley.

<p>Figure visualises the sampled recent populations (grey) and old populations (black) of <i>O. vulgare</i>. Ancient (white) and restored (dotted) calcareous grasslands are visualised as well. Population codes correspond to those in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0067255#pone-0067255-t001" target="_blank">table 1</a>.</p